mapman
Responses from mapman
| Your Dream/Team Rock Band GLad to see another VDGG fan in these parts.Its worth having a good system just to be able to get the most out of a good VDGG recording. | |
| Who do you trust? I take it all with several grains of salt, more even as the price tags go up. | |
| Tinnitus I don't know a thing about it but the software to help sounds interesting and potentially plausible to me. Not much to loose to try I suppose. | |
| Your Dream/Team Rock Band Traveling Wilburys while they lasted perhaps the best "supergroup" that actually did exist, IMHO. | |
| Your Dream/Team Rock Band Gslone, check out Hackett's Tokyo Tapes DVD or album for something along those lines, at least featuring Hackett and Wetton with a reasonable cast around them. Its pretty awesome. | |
| Your Dream/Team Rock Band Dream team rock bands are seldom very organic and usually do not do well. The total is usually less than the sum of the parts. Although sometimes when they come together to do covers in benfits, etc. the results on that particular occasion can be ... | |
| Best "Rock/Pop" Debut Album? "The Divine Comedy" by Milla Jojovich (yes that Milla) is actually and surprisingly quite good and unique. Plus of course the fact that she is Milla Jojovich and quite hot does not hurt. | |
| Classical, Spanish & South American Guitar Jewels Check out This.An American country singer wowing a Norwegian audience. Pure gold. | |
| Does JBL get a bad rap? OHM gets a bad rap as well sometimes. Not from me though. | |
| Audio Research preamp ratings & sound differences Yes, whatever you call it, the modern ARC sound I hear is not the traditional tube sound one would hear with older tube gear. Its hard to distinguish from good SS gear. Not overtly "tube" sounding. Just very clean and effective. VAC gear I have he... | |
| Quality system, make poor recordings sound better? Gl,Can you provide one or two good examples of r&r tracks in you CD collection that you find unlistenable and why? Just curious. A little digital remastering can go a long way, whether done well by a pro or at home. However, the details of how... | |
| Classical, Spanish & South American Guitar Jewels There are many good singers still these days.The difference is that being a good singer used to be a ticket to stardom. Nowadays you might get a star who is also a good singer but its the overall bling and charisma that matters most. ELvis got his... | |
| Does JBL get a bad rap? DOes Magico get a bum rap? | |
| Six Moons charges for reviews? There are pros and cons with everything. Sixmoons reviewers generally do a decent job of covering both. No reason to be negative about most products, rather, be agnostic, describe the product to just help people familiarize and decide if right for... | |
| where to go from here..,, 10X rule is the MINIMUM for impedance matching.Most power amps designed to work well with tube pre-amps in general have input impedance of 60Kohm or higher, to be safe.That is an insurance policy for good results with most any tube preamp. PRe-amp... |