ncarv
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| Best Classical Stations on Internet Radio Ok, I guess I suck.Although Linn Classical has a higher bit rate and, therefore, better sonics, it doesn't present the world class performers that other stations I like do play. | |
| Best Classical Stations on Internet Radio WQXR (Newark, NJ)WGBH (Boston, MA) | |
| Contact Enhancer Deterioration I believe Caig, Kontak, etc., all have Stabilant 22 as a base.Does anyone have more info on this? | |
| Contact Enhancer Deterioration I used the silver paste, but removed it, too. I cleaned the connectors with pharmaceutical grade alcohol (99%).4est has got it right. Stabilant 22 is the basis for most contact cleaners. | |
| Jazz must have pressings??? Nice to have the book Elizabeth recommends. I don't think the guides are published anymore since they went to the web at allmusic.com. You can spend endless time there searching by artist, genre, album, etc. and finding out artists similar to your... | |
| Binding Straps vs Jumpers I've always found that cables, especially matching your speaker cables, improves the sound over binding straps.As for blowing dough unnecessarily . . . is any of this really necessary? Hmm . . . | |
| Best Rock Drummers Great piece about Keith Moon by James Wood in the 11/29 issue of The New Yorker. Wood is a prominent literary critic at Harvard.http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_wood | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Hendrix "All Along The Watchtower" by a mile. Even Dylan changed his way of performing it after Jimi.Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," is another winner. | |
| What Music? new Usher demo CD RMAF freebie Hmm. I received an Usher CD at the Stereophile show in New York a few years ago. The one I got has a track from Carmina Burana, but there is a variety of tracks of different music. It is a 24-bit master and the best sounding red book CD I have hea... | |
| What speaker for being close to rear wall? A pair of Guru QM-10's just went up for sale here. | |
| What speaker for being close to rear wall? Guru speakers were the talk of the show in NY a few years ago.Made to be against the wall. Incredible bass!http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051607sjofn/ | |
| Are audiophile speakers turn on for single women? Sure . . . just like women think candlelit dinners and long walks on the beach attract men. | |
| Turntable suggestions for novice... Ditto Mcfavre4 | |
| Is it okay to talk around your speakers? They are SPEAKERS, not LISTENERS. They speak. They do not listen. (Hmm . . . reminds me of . . .) | |
| Thiel CS 2 2 vs Snell C IV I currently own Snell B-Minors, C-V's, & D's. I have owned Type A's and Thiel 2 2, 3.5, & 3.6. I had the B-Minors as my main speakers for many years. I had gone from 2 2's to 3.5's to the B-Minors before I got the 3.6's.I drove the speaker... |