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| Your First Concert was..... Richard,Do you sometimes feel that you're just wandering through life on a horse with no name?Marty | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far I'm on a bit of roll with recent purchases. Just picked up the new cd from the Bottle Rockets, "Lean Forward". This band was basically an Uncle Tupelo spinoff and their first 2 cds were rockin' singer/songwriter stuff with C&W overtones. They ... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Another terrific release:"My Old Familiar Friend" by Brandon Benson.I've always loved Benson's solo stuff and I also like White Stripes quite a bit. Therefore, it was a surprise that I found myself disappointed by The Raconteurs material. I figure... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Rebbi,Don't sweat it. There are lots of tube pre-amps with lowish OI. If you're nervous, compile a list and shop from it. (You might want to start with Quicksilver, they will drive anything.) Tube pre-amps with buffered output stages are sometimes... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? TFK,Your point is taken , but I would argue that you didn't have quite as much a part as Todd did because that record IS nearly perfect (as in the absolute truth dictated by the supreme being). However, IMHO, "Nearly Human" comes even closer to th... | |
| Sounds better at home Close enough for this purpose | |
| Sounds better at home Didn't Blue Cheer have those really cool flashpots? | |
| Sounds better at home My expectations are usually so low that I've recently tended to end up pleasantly surprised by the sound quality of live shows. I had refused to see an arena show for almost 2 decades (for this very reason) 'til I went to the recent Fleetwood Mac ... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? Good question.The answer is "probably not" (at least for pop/rock).A couple of Beatles records (add Revolver to the list) come close, but I can't think of any other band that matches their track to track consistency. I guess that there's always a ... | |
| Need some slow electric guitar Further on JJ Cale:"Naturally" - probably his best known album, really wonderful stuff, lots of shuffling blues tempos"Escondido" - recent collaboration with Eric Clapton, also features Derek Trucks and a ridiculously talented band playing (mostly... | |
| No very little Compromise $20K 5CH System? You might look into the high end of the Onkyo/Integra line for a pre-pro. They include Audyssey DRC which will allow optimum integration of the sub and room correction. The Audyssey can be defeated with a "Pure/Direct" switch that bypasses all int... | |
| SET the best? I still own my Cary 300B monos and my Cary 805 monos, but the speakers I'm using at the moment (Ohm 100s) won't play nicely with either of these amps. Right now, I prefer the Ohm/ARC VT130SE combo to anything I can hang off of either Cary. So, SET... | |
| Omni Speaker Options I've heard the big Beolabs at the Beverly Hills B&O store on at least three occasions. They sound very good till the spl goes up - at which point they become a complete mess featuring compression, significant tonal shift and audible break-up. ... | |
| Ribbon, planar magnetic, electrostatic omni-driver IIRC, there was an IEEE article, maybe in the mid 1980's, on "coaxing" omni response from planars using a technique call something like Hoffman Encoding. AFAIK, it never went anywhere commercially. A couple of hours on google might get you the pap... | |
| Omni Speaker Options I haven't heard the Giya, but the Vivid speakers I did hear (briefly @ the LA Stereophile show a couple of years back) also seemed to feature a somewhat "foreward" tonal balance.Marty |