martykl
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| New Tom Petty I never got around to posting on Petty/ZZ Top at the Hollywood Bowl. A great show and the Mojo material benefits greatly from the "live" treatment. The set list was greatest hits + Mojo. IME, this type of show tends to favor the hits and that's wh... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Todd and Dgarret,Bought Mumford "Sigh No More" today on your recommendation. Flat out stunning. Reminds me a bit of 16 Horsepower, but doesn't feel at all derivative. Probably the most startling thing I've heard this year.Marty | |
| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? Slightly OT, but related.Richard Thompson has composed a song cycle call "Cabaret of Souls" that is designed to showcase the double bass skills of (unrelated) Danny Thompson. They are touring with a limited # of performances (LA on Nov 19). Fans o... | |
| im searching for a budget 2 channel setup Sonos is a great system (I have 7 stations throughout my home and use 1 or more every day), and it might solve your remote control and access issues, but your speaker placement is the one that's going to make or break the sound. If you're listenin... | |
| New amp being touted as among the best ever...... Don't know about the amp, but you gotta love the barely intelligable "spokes-chick" in the video. | |
| Which DAC prevails in this chain of converters? Only one DAC is active at a time, so you have 3 choices:1) Run the analog out from your CD into an analog RCA input on your Marantz. Use the stand alone DAC as a paper weight. The DAC in your CD player is the only active DAC in this chain.2) Run d... | |
| im searching for a budget 2 channel setup I'll offer one approach:Small omnis or "near omnis" with little to no bass like those from Ohm, Mirage, Gallo. or even Sunfire (the CRM is dipole, but maybe worth thinking about, anyway). The wide dispersion should help mitigate the irregular plac... | |
| Sealed vs Ported Subwoofers What Shadorne said. Ported subs are usually (though not always) less damped than sealed subs. That helps for high output capability at very low frequencies (read "HT"), but might cause some issues when optimizing for a music system. However, as th... | |
| Music to die to No one for "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"? | |
| Preamp Suggestions for my system You might want to check out Joule Electra. I've used their 100 pre with Cary 300b momoblocks into Merlin VSM SEs with great results. On the budget side, Audible Illusions barks up the "tubier" sounding side of the tree. I had good results with thi... | |
| ARC LS25 mkII noise level My MKI is dead silent. Nada - even wide open. I'll second ee3, a trip to ARC seems to be in order.Marty | |
| Multipel Driver Subs IME (reasonably extensive) sub-matching is a two step process, neither of which involve the "speed" of small drivers. The first step is matching the sub to the room - optimized with proper output capability, careful placement, multiple subs and /o... | |
| Favorite Non-Major Record Label Pablo for JazzRazor and Tie for rock | |
| down firing or front firing sub? If you're crossing low enough (<80hz or so), I suspect that the distinction isn't terribly meaningful. If you take the same sub and position it both ways (some models are designed for this), I'd have to think that room position would have way m... | |
| Sonus Faber Minima versus Cremona Auditor? Deaf,It's not that the Minimas have more bass than the Auditors, they almost certainly have less. They do, however, have a mid-bass hump and less presence region energy than I recall hearing from the Auditors. The net effect is that the Minimas so... |