marakanetz
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| What are your "reference" CDs? My reference LPs: Ry Cooder "Jazz", Ry Cooder "Paris-Texas";Tchaikovski/Rozhdestvenski "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty" boxed set; Pat Metheny "Offramp"; Can "Ege Bamiasi";Frank Zappa "Uncle Meat"; King Crimson "Islands".My reference CDs: Symphon... | |
| OTL Tube Amps-- are they superior to everything? how about driving high impedance loads with OTLs? | |
| Speaker recommendation - 3K budget Totem Forest or Totem Mani2 for the monitors.There is no tighter bass than in Totems for this range.Plinius\Thiel combo sounds realy musical and worm as well. | |
| 1950-2000: The 10 Greatest Songwriting Teams At no particular order but with no place for crap i list:Laurie Anderson/Lou ReedRobert Fripp/Adrean BelewJon Anderson/Rick WackemanBryan Ferry/Phil ManzaneraPhil Manzanera/Brian EnoBrian Eno/David ByrneSting/Andy SummersDavid Sylvian/Robert Fripp... | |
| The best CD Player for the money And there follows the well-known rule of thumb for the best for the money CD player:Used CD player has usually more deminishing return than the new one.Cheers! | |
| HELP blown speakers Viridian, I believe into my poor knowlege of the speaker's internal structure but in reality, the rectangular and saw-shaped splashes due to improper re-locking and/or jitter in digital-to-analogue domain have the huge spectrum from DC components ... | |
| List Ultra Dynamic music for testing systems I believe that Praxis "Transmutation" has more dynamics than any of on your list.You should also try Praxis "Metatron".For more known artists how'bout Red Hod Chilli Pepers "Mother's Milk"?Will the Maggies swing Beethoven sympnony 5? | |
| What did he say? Misunderstood lyrics. Nina Hagen in the song The Mother of Punk has the words"I'm the mother of punk So what the funk?"Guess how it's heard when you listen...:^) | |
| HELP blown speakers Disclaimer:Jitter, improperly smoothed and rectified digital samples, re-locking DAC errors(that i'm sure a-plenty in the computer interface card) do produce huge DC splashes onto the further analogue proccessing and amplification that theoretical... | |
| HELP blown speakers Mark, your note is correct.The beast is the computer interface sound card that can draw the significant amount of DC to the direct-coupled amp and certainly to the speakers. Ej.., If you want to experiment with other set of speakers I bet you'll g... | |
| I'm depressed, my system hurts my ears.Please help kimber is too fast for fast josephs.the suggestion for MIT is right on.you might also try AQ Midnight.wire creek to mac with MIT-s as well.your amp/passive pre- combination is near-perfect with high input sencitivity, low feedback and high input i... | |
| atabites and/or other speaker fillers Lead shot on the other hand has an issue of a lead dust that is extreamly dangerous...What about monitor speaker stands that can be made of low-carbon steel that is very vulnerable to magnetizm? | |
| Best Electronic Albums of the 90s.... bill laswell "broken vessels" soundtract 1999 | |
| Upgrade from Adcom GFP-750? yet you should stay away from bryston bp25. to my ears that's probably the worst gear they ever produced so far. it will certainly be a downgrade from adcom. | |
| which component should i put the better cable on? The price in this issue plays not a large role whatsoever. First you need to know what manufacturer suggests or how the powercord was built(I think for $1k you should!).For poweramps usually high-gauge shielded powercords are better to filter larg... |