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| Album of the year? Switchblade Symphony/group, Three Calamities/album, released 6/99. I love this album, I describe it as gothic/trip hop, people who like Massive Attack "Mezzanine" will love this album. Very good recording for mainstream label, check out some real ... | |
| Burn-in time Vs. Getting used to a sound Easy way to prove is if you buy two ICs or AC cords, break one in for 100 hours then switch with new "virgin" cable, they sound different......break-in does change sound, ears are not being tricked. As some have stated above if you make the mistak... | |
| "Whose" Beethoven do you like? To supplement your complete CD set purchases, besides DG/Kleiber 5&7, do not hesitate to get Sony/Walter 4&6 mid price with SBM remastering, 6th is a legendary performance and recording is excellent as are many of the SBM remasters. Also t... | |
| "Whose" Beethoven do you like? DG/Karajan (1962)at mid price a good choice, to complete Karajan survey get his 1977 9th, his best ever with very exciting final. DG/Klieber 5&7 is a must have, legendary performances that are remastered at mid price, no brainer. Gardner and H... | |
| Which track do you demo to your friends? Let them choose! If you go to dealer to hear some equip do you want dealer to play some music you never heard before, no you bring music or have them play music you know so you have a point of reference for how good it sounds. Trelja no need to wo... | |
| Top Ten Speaker Cables of all time?... Trelja you don't have an extra 50K, he he he. The best cables will never be heard by most of us, in TAS last month most of the $100,000 plus systems they recommended had NBS Monitor and Siltech speaker cables at mind boggling costs. I can just ima... | |
| what is everybody listening to right now One of my favorites this year is the group Switchblade Symphony who sound like gothic trip hop/rock music. If you take the truly excellent Massive Attack "Mezzanine" album sound and add to it a gothic theme you have "Three Calamities" the third al... | |
| JOB, BelCanto, Perpetual, MilleniumDACs? Sol, I will of course share results after break-in, my system very similar to Wes Phillips, Musical Fidelity A3CD MF amp/preamp.......I am very happy with current system for Classical and other well recorded material, but 1/2 of CD collection is r... | |
| Best ss Line Level Preamp under $10K ?? Sean, checking the net I discovered CTC Blowtorch preamp is real, a John Curl collaboration retail $9000. Unit is being promoted by Bound for Sound magazine. At first I too thought this was a joke, strange name, very much like a Sluggo joke. I hav... | |
| Any advice on CD player upgrade? John, if Arcam A7 has digital output you may want to consider using A7 as transport and buying used Dac here. Bel Canto, Birdland, Millenium etc 24/96 that produce sound you have to pay $2000+ in new player to get | |
| JOB, BelCanto, Perpetual, MilleniumDACs? Tubegroover, I purchased used Bel Canto Dac1 couple days ago, will start out with HT cyberlink copper digital cable, and keep an eye out for used Illumination D60 or HT cyberlink platinum here at audiogon to upgrade to. This will go with my Musica... | |
| ADD Analog to Digital best for Classical Just to further comment I picked up latest issue of TAS and saw a review of EMI Mahler 2 Klemperer/Schwartzkof "recordinging of the century" remaster series using ART tech. This performance is from early sixties, is fit on one disc, performance ge... | |
| Budget Powerline cond Recommendations Without a doubt the best sounding budget condtioner is Monster HTS2000 buy from globe-mart.com for $125 new. Robt Harly of TAS was amazed at its performance for price. | |
| ADD Analog to Digital best for Classical Sugar, I rarely buy new classical performances because of the wealth of excellent and inexpensive back catalog remasters, but the few I have purchased have all been DDD recordings. I have commented before that Decca "legends" EMI "recordings of th... | |
| MIT and tubes No one here, except Orb, has mentioned that MIT newest ICs are ISN (input specific networks) with three impedance ranges to better match tube equipment. Also speaker cables are now available in solid state and tube designs. Available in 330 (high ... |