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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Map,"Far East Suite" is my #1A favorite Ellington record, but "Queen's Suite" and "Intimacy of the Blues" would be choices 1B and 1C, respectively. The only caveat is that I own these only on LP and haven't heard the cd versions. Both LPs (Pablo) ... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll Tube,Interesting take and I (sort of) agree with a lot of your views (particularly re: boogie woogie), but..."I never saw a direct link between blues and early RnR"?I'm not sure I understand. Aside from the piano blues forms that inform barrelhous... | |
| The Next Level Sounds like a great night. It also sounds like a Penthouse letter...with a different kind of final paragraph. Glad you had a great experience, but it makes me wonder a bit about this whole audiophile thing.Marty | |
| Anyone heard Cary 303/300 after 400 hours burn-in? I use one with stock tubes, stock version (unmodded).A very fine, very flexible cd player, via RCA and XLR out.Marty | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll Unsound...you are surely correct that the cultural impact of The Beatles was enormous in many, many ways.OTOH, consider Chuck Berry's cultural contribution for a second. For the first time, Berry (along with a few contemporaries) brought black pop... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll The Beatles vs Chuck Berry?It's a variation on my comment to Brauser on classical music vs rock music. These are apples and oranges. Or, in this case, maybe apples and pears.As noted by Ee3, The Beatles themselves often contended that the highest ... | |
| Speakers recommendations to use with a Cary 805 Cary 805s will drive many speakers to high SPLs, given the size of your room. I've used the Merlin VSMs that Bob mentions with wonderful results. I've also done well with Verity Parsifal Encores (a tougher load), and several other near full range ... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll Brauser,I understand your point, but that's a pretty narrow view of art (and life). Rock is a minimalist art form and, as such, it's easy to dismiss as simplistic. Particularly when you compare it to the structural complexity of most (Western) cla... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll An almost perfect post, I'd only change 2 words:I'd insert "odd opinions" for "irrefutable truths".Not necessarily "wrongheaded", just odd.MartyPS Johnson played the blues. He clearly inspired many of the early rockers who followed. Who was really... | |
| Ohm & Tubes -Part 1 Good question. My room has bass issues so I haven't tried (non EQd subless) full range operation. I could shlep the whole system downstairs (like I did when the Ohms first arrived) and try full range operation in my living room. OTOH, I'm probably... | |
| Ohm & Tubes -Part 1 Since the thread is back, I'll provide a part II (or at least a part 1 of Part II):I recently re-jiggered my system to allow me to fire up my ARC VT-130SE amp. This unit is balanced operation only. It has no phase splitter so I couldn't use it wit... | |
| Magnepan vs Ohm/Walsh ? A couple more thoughts:Both speakers require a fair bit of juice to open up dynamically - no SET amps allowed and 150+ WPC is probably a good idea.To recapture a sense of macrodynamics, I listen to both the Ohms and the Maggies at app 5db louder t... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Rebbi,Glad to hear that things are going well. Thanks for the update on the speakers.Marty | |
| Magnepan vs Ohm/Walsh ? I currently rotate Ohm 100s and Maggie SMGs in a system that uses twin Velo SPLR subs as well. Therefore, my observations are "real time", but they stop at 80hz.The Ohms produce a "drier" presentation that strikes me as pretty much dead neutral in... | |
| Jazz at the Pawn Shop... A very good recording of inoffensive, unremarkable music. |