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| New Jazz Releases..What Do You Like? Jazz pianist, Michel Camilo, is an unbelievably gifted musician-composer. Check out his recent release, Triangulo. | |
| How could High End audio be improved? People don't have to buy Home Theater so they can hear dinosaur feet walking around their living room, they don't have to buy Bose or some crappy rack system, and kids don't have to buy recordings from a genre that has not produced a single memora... | |
| Adcom GFA555mkII vs. GFA555 To quote John Atkinson from Audiophile (October, 1990 p. 201-202): " Personally, I felt the older the '555's high frequencies to be somewhat emphasized, perhaps even grainy.... the new '555 [has] a greater number of fuses between the rear-mounted,... | |
| Good 6550/KT88 tubes The Svetlana KT88s will give you a more classic tube warm, smooth, liquid sound than the 6550s. | |
| What Power Cord for EAR 834P I got a bit more body in the sound when I replaced the stock power cord with a Delta Labs PC on my EAR 834P. You will realize a more dramatic improvement if you upgrade the tubes. I am using NOS Mazda 12AX7s. Other 12AX7s with good reputations are... | |
| isolating a tube problem - ARC LS5 preamp I cast my vote for tube rolling. When I replaced the Sovtecs in my ARC preamp, I was amazed at the improvement in imaging, subtle inner detail, transparency and dynamics. What to replace the Sovtecs with? After experimenting with several different... | |
| Jazz Classic Enthusiasts Tatum could play fast and could improvise with the tempo in tricky ways that would lose the average listener. A harmonic artistry emerged as his style matured. Tatum's crowning achievement is The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, 121 selections Tatum recor... | |
| Willing to be proved wrong. I also kept my old Garrard so that I would have something to play 78s on. It's OK for that, but only that. Not going to suggest you buy an expensive TT, as that is out of the question. But you might consider an inexpensive one, such as the Dual CS... | |
| Building a system for a friend...Please Help I would give consideration to the Creek 5335SE, Arcam DiVA A85 and Musical Fidelity A300 integrated amps. My choice for a CD player would be the Arcam FMJ CD22 or the Cary CD-308. You don't mention whether your friend has good quality cables. You ... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Let me say a word for my personal favorite, Wes Montgomery. Entirely self taught, he learned the guitar from listening to Charlie Christian records. A great natural talent. Those who knew him personally could attest to the fact that "the warmth an... | |
| What turntable for $1500 ? I thought most Adcom preamps of that era included a pretty good phono stage. Assuming yours does not, the EAR 834P phono stage will provide some tube warmth and naturalness to your solid state system and is compatible with low output cartridges. I... | |
| Best recording Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 4 With EMI Classics "Great Recordings of the Century" series you get not only Michelangeli's performance of Rach 4, which Penguin CD guide calls "one of the most brilliant piano records ever made", but you also get the Ravel Piano Concerto in G. Thi... | |
| Any thoughts on a Audiogon covention? Tireguy, I will see if we can't have our monthly meeting while you are here in March. Will keep you posted. Phasecorrect, New Orleaneans love recommending restaurants. Just to name one, I think you would not be disappointed with the seafood stuffe... | |
| Any thoughts on a Audiogon covention? If Audiogon does make it to New Orleans, I would be happy to host a party. My modest home has a reasonably good listening room (35x36), and I believe you would find yourselves in the company of very welcoming local audiophiles. | |
| What are the "Must have" LP's? If you love jazz, there are going to be no fewer than a hundred "must have" jazz LPs. Ditto for classical. The "sub-question" of what LPs do you play to show off your system raises the question: Do music lovers value sonics over great music and gr... |