martykl
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| Sun Kil Moon "Admiral Fell Promises" Thanks Loomis, I'll add those RHPs into the Amazon cart and check out if the 2 Sun Kil cds work out for me. I've had pretty good luck to date chasing down the stuff that both you and Richard enjoy, so I expect the chances are pretty good that I'll... | |
| Anyone else really likes Shawn Lane? I saw this thread and jumped over to read his bio on Wikipedia. I was unfamiliar with the name before this. Quite a story (burned out from constant touring by age 18, dead at 40, and not really of his own doing, it seems). That's sad. A quick yout... | |
| Sun Kil Moon "Admiral Fell Promises" Thanks Richard,April and AFP are on the way to me as I type.Marty | |
| Sun Kil Moon "Admiral Fell Promises" Okay, you got me. Somehow, I've missed this guy (and Red Housepainters and Sun Kil Moon) entirely (though I've heard OF both these bands, I've never heard either of the bands' music). Would you guys kindly start me off with the best one or two rec... | |
| Need help with speakers to be inside a cabinet IME, Audyssey (or similar) DRC is probably necessary to get decent performance from in cabinet placement of most speakers. | |
| Sub woofer that excels at the mid bass wanted IMHO, this is the range where subs do their best work, smoothing the room induced impact on FR. As you go really deep in pitch (say <35hz), a good sub will be outperform almost any integrated woofer, but (again, IMHO) this has less impact on th... | |
| best subwoofer for stirling LS3/5A I believe that the sub/stand I was thinking of in my earlier post is the Rogers AB1. It uses the same b110 driver as the ls3/5a in a tall, ported cabinet.Hopw that helps.Marty | |
| Killer Kitchen System under $800 or so? I chose mAudio powered monitors for Sonos in my kitchen. IIRC, +/- $400 for the Sonos zp and $200 for the powered mAudios. Just fine for the application. Not gonna make me sell the Ohms, Merlins, Verities, etc., but just fine for the job (and the ... | |
| modest towers with high WAF for living room? Upscale Audio in SoCal has new (but discontinued) Opera Secondas listed at $2K on the "specials" section of their website. These are sorta Sonus Faber wannabes, and I doubt you'll score higher on the WAF side of the equation at $2K. OTOH, I can't ... | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... I should add one caveat on the Pete Thorn recommendation:On a subtlety/nuance scale of 1 to 10, this rates a zero. Just some "in yer face" guitar fun, old school style.Marty | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... Just spun up a new one: Pete Thorn's "Guitar Nerd".Peter Thorn is a top shelf LA session guy (Don Henley, Hole, Alicia Keyes, Melissa Etheridge, etc., etc.) who's just released his first solo album. It's a self indulgent, instrumental guitar strut... | |
| best subwoofer for stirling LS3/5A The LS3/5a is a tough match for a sub because there's a broad mid-bass hump. My general observation is:If you cross to get a seamless hand-off, you'll likely have too much bass, octave to octave. If you reduce the subwoofer's output to preserve a ... | |
| Studio monitors for listening to music? IME, they're all over the board (pardon the pun). I don't know the DSM specifically, but M-Audio is generally solid (not great) and a very good value. I have a pair in my kitchen attached to a Sonos wireless distributed music system. They're on wh... | |
| Should I bother to try a subwoofer? Tostado,I understand the finances. That said, I do want to make it clear that I wasn't being sarcastic in acknowledging that your extensive musical training better equips you for the task I was describing. I've become much more attuned (pardon the... | |
| Should I bother to try a subwoofer? Tostado,IME, the problem with set-up by ear is that you're trying to optimize for 3 major variables at once (and a few minor ones, too). Smoothest response will vary with room position, as will the native output level from the sub (as reinforcing ... |