marakanetz
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| Best Leonard Cohen CD? the future.other albums either too boring or isn't so advanced. | |
| How many audiophiles to screw in a light bulb? If there will be more than one than it's gonna be a group sex. | |
| foreign lyrics -------do you care? How about artists that often invent their own language appart from any language we know?For example: Magma(Christian and Maurice Vander),Dead Can Dance(Lisa Gerrard, Brandan Perry)... | |
| Mono block or vertical Bi amps for Vandersteen 2Ce According to the choices you've listed, I'd clearly stay with monoblocks and preferably MB225. | |
| foreign lyrics -------do you care? In Buena Vista Social Club you actually can read English translation of the Spanish lyrics.Before I become an audiophile I listened to american and brittish artists and also french ones. So I can assume that it's only an american mentality to only... | |
| How does a Headphone amp work . Where to start ? Instead of spending $3k on headphone amp and headphones you may get AKG-K1000 ones that connect directly to an amplifier at speaker binding posts for $1k+.Another option is Stax Lambda phones with Stax SRM-2 driver that connects to either line out... | |
| Need Help With a Bright System I see clearly an electronic issue which might be the case with integration with NAD amps that might be clipping at high freequencies. | |
| Progressive Rock In most of the CES rooms you're allowed to test equipment with your own CDs wether it's prog or jazz or whatever. Don't forget your couple of CDs next time or vinyls where applicable... | |
| Sonus Faber Sound? IMO Grand Piano in particular is the most balanced and the most natural speaker I've ever heard. | |
| Speaker Advise Please Looking for a Lively Sound Totem Forrest or Sonus Faber Grand Piano are the champs in the range and demands you're describing... | |
| Is Preamp overkill for me? Get Adcom GFP750 and there you'll at least know what you realy want since it could work in active and passive modes. | |
| Sibilance -- that last little bit... I hear only two issues:1. Cartridge went bad2. Damaged pivot on the arm.Try another cartridge to make sure that yours is OK or not. | |
| What's the funniest song you ever heard? Zappa's "We gotta stick together", "Catholic girls", | |
| what causes the sss in words like 'thisss'? THE EXPERIMENT:1. Place the microphone setup... and blow onto microphone.What will you hear from speakers?2. Repeat blowing onto microphone only with joined teeth pronouncing an "S" sound and you should hear exhagerated sibliance.Sibliance in RECO... | |
| Your "DREAM" piece To have all original FZ albums. |