mapman
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| Best rock song of all times Also "Girls Got Rhythm" one of my favorites. | |
| Best rock song of all times Highway Star?Enter Sandman?Bad Boy (Beatles version)?Satisfaction is the easy answer.Hotel California - way overranked and boring. I will not miss this song if I never hear it again.I'm a fan of "All the Young Girls Love Alice". "Birthday" by The ... | |
| "Best" speakers new/used under $3,000? Audiokinesis is one of the lines I have never heard that I would really like to.I like Duke's perspective on what it takes to produce good sound and would love to hear his designs.... | |
| My audiophile take on the symphony last night. I like to close my eyes on occasion during live concerts and when listening at home. This helps me assess each relative to each other based only on what I hear better.When I do this, I often think I would not know for certain which I am listening ... | |
| The Reeses Cup: components that come together perf I'll refine mine a bit.Bel Canto ref1000m monoblocks and larger OHM Walsh speakers in a medium to large size room with adequate distance to walls to eliminate effects of early reflections as needed.Add a decent music server source for digital that... | |
| The wrong speaker for the room ? Good point! | |
| Why aren't the older members still active ? Products change but principles not so much.Not much new ground broken relating to principles of good sound these days that probably have not been hashed through to death prior.Maybe more so with digital audio where the technology is still evolving... | |
| "Best" speakers new/used under $3,000? OHM Walsh speakers can do it all with any kind of music and might end your search for good. Can be had new or used for that price or significantly less even.For larger rooms, you need larger models, otherwise smaller models used for $1000 or perha... | |
| My audiophile take on the symphony last night. "Funny thing about live music - no matter how bad the acoustics are, you can tell it's live and not recorded."Probably true. What our ears hear when listening is only part of the story though. | |
| My audiophile take on the symphony last night. "The highs were rolled off"The supertweeter must have had the night off.Seriously, you have to attend a lot of live musical performances in a lot of venues (good and bad) to get a real perspective on what music can, should or does sound like. It i... | |
| What would you upgrade next if you had my hifi ? Looks good to me!What aspect of the sound needs improvement? | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Went to a lovely wedding yesterday in a fairly contemporary and nicely designed church complete with sizable pipe organ, vaulted ceilings, the works pretty much in a very nice sized but not cavernous room.I love pipe organs! Fascinating devices.Of... | |
| Why has audio become so specilized over the years? Love the RS catalogs link!Interesting to see what was hot in electronics over the years.I worked at RS from ~ 1978-82. Brings back lots of memories.... | |
| Why has audio become so specilized over the years? Because audio buffs have had many more years now to obsess over these things.What's possible has gotten better as a result, which is a good thing. Not to say that everything newer and more expensive is necessarily better though. | |
| Saw Emmylou Harris last night. "What a classy performer."perfect description! |