meisterkleef
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| what really happened to j. skul Skull was a complete paradox for me: of all the SP writersI valued his opinion on gear and music the least, yet alwaysfound myself turning to his reviews and Fine Tunes first. Gofigure. | |
| Survey: B&W The only B&W I would own: Nautilus 800The B&W with best price/performance ratio: Matrix 801 S3I agree with Phasecorrect in regards to the Nautilus linebeing way overpriced. The Nautilus line did not deserve a 2xmarkup from the S3 Matrix li... | |
| Allison Krauss fans, try this one. Oh yeah Sternart, those Flinner/Grier/Phillips trio discsare fabulous! Also on the Compass label. You can also checkout some more of Matt Flinner's work with Judith Edelmanalso on Compass. I guess he liked playing in her band as hemarried her rece... | |
| Little Know Speaker Builders If you're in the Chicago area check out Kinetic Audio(www.kinetic-audio.com). Used to be a fairly large operationin the mid-70s but has slowly reduced to his current one-mancompany run by Ted Karson. Specializes in transmission linedesigns. He bui... | |
| Allison Krauss fans, try this one. Agree with Swampwalker on the new Krauss/US live CD. Decentrecording quality too. Nickel Creek's first is tremendous.If you like Chris Thile's playing you need to check outMatt Flinner too. Has a couple of solo discs on Compass andtours with Lefto... | |
| 6 Components + A Big Amp: Which rack? Check out the Billy Bags 4600 series. Not cheap but buildquality like you wouldn't believe. And you can specify thespacings between shelves when you order. And you can evenget it with a 4th shelf. That's what I did. I keep my 36"TV on top with my ... | |
| inexpensive XLR cable for a tape deck? Canare star-quad with gold-tip Neutrik XLRs. Markertek willmake you a 3-ft pair for $13 + shipping.I have my whole system wired with DIY ICs and speaker cablesbased on Canare cable: L-4E6S (star-quad) for analog ICs,DA-206 for 110-ohm AES/EBU digi... | |
| what are your favorite movie soundtracks. Passagio per il Paradiso - Pat Metheny | |
| OTL Tube Amps-- are they superior to everything? Had a chance to spend a few hours with the new JC-1s. Verynice amps. Nice design and nice sound. Nothing even closeto earth shattering, however. Certainly wouldn't swap myD-400mkIIs for them. I'm surprised an OTL/tube guy wouldmake the jump to SS ... | |
| Best group of the late 80s/ 90's Sorry that should have been 7/24/91... | |
| Best group of the late 80s/ 90's Saw some terrific DMB shows at Trax while doing my gradutework at UVa '90-'96. They used to play every Tuesday for $5in '92-'93. It was great until the word-of-mouth startedgetting out and the shows became like fraternity-row-remote.Stopped going ... | |
| Best group of the late 80s/ 90's Phish. Although they were more mid-80s. Really got on theirroll in the '88 - '92 time frame. Saw some unbelievableshows in that period. Still a great live band but their pastfew studio recordings have not done it for me. Picture ofNectar is still ... | |
| Mandolin music Of course anything by David Grisman as mentioned above. DGtends toward alt.bluegrass as opposed to alt.country. SamBush is also in this category.For alt.country bands, I think you'd really like LeftoverSalmon and String Cheese Incident.Also check ... | |
| What tubes for ARC LS 5 preamp - 6922/6DJ8 Be careful with the 7308s in the LS5mkI/II. I tried theAmperex 7308 gold pins in my LS5mkII and they rang like abell. And these were brand new NOS hand-selected lownoise/microphonic from Kevin Deal. Nothing at all wrongwith the tubes. There's some... | |
| Best Tube Preamp with Biamp Capability Sorry the SP11 must have been from another thread. I don'tthink you mentioned what type of pre you are currently usingbut judging from your other components I'm sure it ain'tchopped liver. Keep the pre, get yourself an active x-overand two more pa... |