martykl
Responses from martykl
| Most enjoyable speaker you heard under $800?? For me, it's Magnepan's MMG in a walk. | |
| The King is dead, Long Live the King He was an amazing ambassador for American culture over the last half of the last century. And a masterful blues man, to boot. He will be missed. | |
| How much power for Merlin VSM speakers? Eno,After a decade and a half, I still have my VSMs mated to Cary 300 SET mono blocks in a room much like yours, except with a cathedral ceiling that hits 20 feet. Not the FW, but the Cary monos are <15 wpc SET designs that need a friendly matc... | |
| Magnepan MMG Speakers? MMGs plus properly integrated subs (Audyssey helps) would be my pick as best value full range speaker. Just a great speaker system - within its limitations. As noted above by Polarin, the bottom octave and a half of bass are essentially MIA, and t... | |
| The Best Live album There's tons of great choices, but I'd have a hard time picking my favorite Fleetwood Mac live album, let alone my overall favorite live album. However........Since Cajun music was recently mentioned, I'll add Fatras! Live in Montreal by Zachary R... | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you I'm not a giant opera fan, but my older brother is. In his never ending attempts to convert me, he's rolled out a few stunning arias. One that's always a moving listen:Ebben! Ne Andro Lantana from Catalani's opera, Le Wally. | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you Slaw,Todd is among the handful of great Rock and pop songwriters IMO. He's a tremendous guitar player and a skilled singer (within his limitations). Few, if any, can match his songwriting breadth: pop, rock, blues, prog, blue eyed soul, electronic... | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you A couple from Todd Rundgren:Pretending to CareLove is The AnswerInterestingly, both songs would benefit tremendously IMO from a singer with more range than Todd. Love has been covered by England Dan and John Ford Cooley, but that's probably a step... | |
| Glenn Campbell - new found respect Good read. I agree that all guitar players (even us hacks) should be revered. | |
| Glenn Campbell - new found respect My guy Lindsey Buckingham had an interesting quote on why he won't learn to read music:Reading music is a left brain activity and rock n roll is a right brain art form.I read music and completely understand his point as it pertains to "primitivist... | |
| Planars/ Electrostats benefits over box speakers? It's hard for me to generalize on which type of speaker (planar vs dynamic) produces better timbre, because there's a ton of variation on that front within both types. Some people believe that planars are "faster" and offer more detail, but I woul... | |
| EL34 & 6L6 characteristics I use PL mono amps in one system. There are definitely a lot of shadings possible when tube rolling the PL amps, so I understand the desire to find that optimal trade-off. I'm not sure that it's possible, but I ended up settling on Tung-sol KT-66 ... | |
| Einstein Just an FYI:The Cary 805 SET mono amps can be ordered with XLR inputs. | |
| Glenn Campbell - new found respect Another fan here. Country crooners are set up to take some hits on this kind of forum, so I understand why the OP felt that he might get slammed. However, Glenn could play and sing and he usually interpreted the songs he was handed in a straightfo... | |
| Phasing out of Compact Disc Ivan,I don't know the contractual dynamics behind the decisions to shut LP production facilities in 1982/1983, but I do know that LP sales had been essentially flat for a decade by that time. Over the course of that same 10 year period, cassette s... |