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| Is there a cd player that sounds close to an LP? An honest A/B comparison of analogue to digital is challenging. You need good quality LPs and CDs of the same recording, a phono stage with a separate volumn control (the ear tends to prefer the louder sound, so you have to control for this) and c... | |
| song title that is memorable Celery Stalks at Midnight | |
| Unsettled and considering changing stuff Tube rolling, adding a Richard Gray Power Company or power conditioner, upgrading your phono stage and the power cord on your BAT amp will help balance out your system. For me, there is more joy in discovering new artists than there is in tweaking... | |
| Under Appreciated Jazz Piano Players Duke Ellington's mastery of the piano is not always given its due. Likewise, Fats Waller is sometimes seen as an entertainer and his musicianship is not fully appreciated. Not always easy to say when someone is under appreciated. Presumably, you h... | |
| 1950-2000: The 10 Greatest Songwriting Teams It may be worth remembering that Jimmy Van Heusen's 40 year career as a song writer extended into the 50s and 60s. With lyricist Johnny Burke he wrote Here's That Rainy Day in 1953 (prior to that, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, But Beautiful, Imaginati... | |
| Help on installing tubes, biasing...ARC VT100mk2 There are any number of power cords that will improve the performance of the VT100mk2. After trying a Delta Labs and a Tekline PC12, I hooked up a JPS Labs Power AC and thought: So this is the open, relaxed and extended sound I was looking for. Bu... | |
| Do I want a preamp? I have the Cary 303/200 CDP, and I prefer to listen to it through my ARC preamp. The sonic difference is subtle: slightly warmer and more involving. I might mention that before I rolled the tubes in the preamp, the difference was more or less negl... | |
| What do in store listening tests prove? If you bring with you some music you are familiar with and have heard on a number of different systems, you can tell something about transparency, sound staging, extension, and so on. If you are listening to something unfamiliar, it's much more di... | |
| Strangest Tweak? The fifty-two-cents-on-top-of-each-speaker tweak was more trick than tweak. | |
| 1950-2000: The Top 25 Singer/Songwriters IMHO, Antonio Carlos Jobim was the most important singer/songwriter of the period in question. After Jobim, there are several notables: Burt Bacharach, Lennon-McCartney, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, and so on. | |
| Retail Buying - Reality Check If hi-end retailers are getting their margins squeezed from competition on the internet, it is because sophisticated consumers (who seldom ever paid MSRP) now have the means to communicate and sell their gear over the net with confidence. If manuf... | |
| What's the best approach? It helps to go out with some reference CDs and educate your ear as to what speakers of different designs will and won't do. Falling in love with a speaker helps to clarify a number of other issues, especially if you are fortunate to fall in love w... | |
| Bach's Mass in B Minor: What is best CD out there? The Collegium Vocale under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe come the closest to capturing the beauty and devotional spirit of Bach's choral works. How? Difficult to say exactly, but the fact that Herreweghe combines authentic instrumentation, ... | |
| Most underated albums...... Here's six LPs and two CDs that have given me a great deal of pleasure (and that you may have to hunt for): Louis Armstrong: Louis With Guest Stars, Jazz Heritage Series Vol. 7, MCA-1306Johnny Hartman: Once In Every Life, BH 7012The Tony Rice Unit... | |
| Best Cardas cables w/B&W M802's & ARC VT100MkII? I have your amp and CDP, but with an ARC pre-amp, Magnum Dynalab FT101A tuner, Sota TT w/Benz Reference. The Cary loves Acoustic Zen Silver Reference ICs, the ARC amp and pre love being joined by Silver Audio Appassionata Balanced ICs, the tuner l... |