martykl
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| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? Most of the expected names have been mentioned at least once, but I'd add two more:Viktor KraussDon Dixon | |
| Music Your Wife Will Really LISTEN To with you ? Zinfan2,If you get a minute, please let me know what you think of the cd with a posting here. While I'm personally more of a nebbiolo fan, your username raises a question:was zinfan (and/or zinfan1) already spoken for?Regards,Marty | |
| Burning a dics for a road trip, suggestions... Don't forget "The Road Goes on Forever (& The Party Never Ends")R.E. Keen or The Highwaymen | |
| Efficient full range floorstanders to match SET I own Zingali floorstanders, purchased for use w/Cary 300B monos. The combo works very nicely (and looks great). Note that as SPL increases, things get a bit messy and discontinuity between the woofers and horns becomes evident.Oddly enough, the c... | |
| Building a Music Room I actually built my room under the garage - dug underneath it - in an architect approved design. Good news, your floor will be solid and gently sloped (not parallel to your ceiling). If you can vary the surfacing of the remaining walls and maintai... | |
| Vandersteen 5A or Eggleston Works Andra II Re: The 5A sounding laid back. I don't know the Andra, but I've auditioned the 5A's extensively and offer (FWIW) just two observations:Unlike the passive Vandy's, I find that the 5As are less sweet and somewhat more analytical sounding speakers. H... | |
| Demoing speakers in LA area? Ambrosia is no longer in Bel Air - They were sold to a home theater group and are now in West Hollywood. I believe that they still carry a good selection of equipment, though. In your area, Upscale is very good as is Brooks Berdan in Monrovia. LA ... | |
| Best 3 options for SET amps I had great success using the Merlin VSM with the Cary 300B monos. The numbers don't indicate just how good this combo sounds, provided you don't listen to organ music (as per your post) and don't need huge volume levels. The deCapo also works wel... | |
| best speakers for vocals? If high volume levels are not required, try the Merlins (mine are VSM SE) with a 300b set amp. I used the Cary monoblocks. This is the best vocal reproduction I've ever acheived and I've owned (or still own) a bunch of the speakers listed on this ... | |
| Rhea Noise To clarify, I've gotten great results - including acceptable noise levels- from my Rhea once I switched out the tubes. Note that I use both a Grado (high output) and a Nightingale (low output). At both ends of the Rhea's gain range I'm getting acc... | |
| Rhea Noise I have not heard every phono stage out there, but I've directly compared the ARC, Herron, and Rhea in my system. Before switching out the original tube set, the Rhea was clearly noisier. After the tubes were replaced, noise levels were close enoug... | |
| Rhea Noise I had to replace the original tubes on my Rhea for the same reason. | |
| Which Magnepans 3.5 or 1.6? I owned 3.5s for a couple of years. If you can supply enough power with the new amp and enough listening room to let them breathe (after a relo I couldn't provide such space, hence the sale), I'm confident that they will impress. I'm a bit surpris... | |
| Opinions on Todd Rundgren fronting the New Cars? Nope. Your whining is justified.I thought they sounded like a cover band.Just gotta hope that the band determined that Leno wasn't the place for a little extended guitar embellishment.On the other hand, I still intend to take in the show. Future p... | |
| Opinions on Todd Rundgren fronting the New Cars? Hey, it might be JUST WHAT THEY NEEDED |