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| Happy music... Pete Fountain Dixieland CLassicsSound quality is very good as well. | |
| Wrong speakers Focal profile 928 or 918 might be the ticket if you can find a pair. | |
| tube amps and electrostatics I'll stand on my position that technical specs never tell the whole story, and any given reasonable combo of gear, even with electrostats, can win on any given day. Too many other factors come into play. no substitute for listening and hearing. Tu... | |
| Wrong speakers Definitely don't spend money shooting for a target until you know what the target is. | |
| Stop compression of music petition via Stereophile Interesting, but peace in the mideast probably has a better chance of succeeding.Stereophile doing this is like me taking on my local cable company to lower their rates. Fat chance!Maybe if PEople Magazine, Foxnews and CNN jump on the bandwagon. E... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics GEorge,I think you are right about that in general, from what I have read.Still, not all Class D amps are created equal. I think I have read of some cases where they have worked well with very low impedances in some cases. It would be a concern, b... | |
| Wrong speakers I think the OPS amp is a hybrid with tube input stage, not a tube output power amp. | |
| tube amps and electrostatics Anyone ever heard a decent Icepower amp running newer Quad ESLs? That's something I would like to hear.When I was auditioning for new speakers a few years back, the Quad ESL demo I got at a local dealer hit the bullseye for the sound I wanted, run... | |
| tube amps and electrostatics I think Al got it right again, as usual. :-) | |
| Wrong speakers Yeah, Thiels can be tough, but I suspect there are many speaker choices out there that would work well with that amp. An easier load and higher efficiency speakers on paper likely provide the greatest upside.Of the ones you mention, I think mbl is... | |
| Happy music... Even a lot of Moody Blues music starting in the very early 80's sets a generally happy tone. I know most of it makes me very happy! Most of the blatant cerebral aspects of their earlier classic 7 albums was gone, though they continued to write int... | |
| Happy music... Britney Spears, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga...pretty happy stuff!Taylor Swift? IS she getting that chip off her shoulder yet? | |
| Happy music... A lot of Baroque period classical music is pretty happy sounding stuff, but as the years progressed, things seemed to get a lot more serious and cerebral overall in general. Lots of good happy sounding exceptions to that general trend over the yea... | |
| Who makes The best amp is the one that matches best to the best speakers.In the end, that's really all that matters, no matter how it is accomplished in any particular case.Figuring out what will work best with what is the tricky part. The rest is largely s... | |
| Happy music... Klezmer music is generally very happy stuff! |