newbee
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| Jazz enthusiasts - A Joe Henderson find ..... Knownothing, I have Lush Life and really like it - very assessible, and like the one I mentioned, should have a very broad appeal to someone who likes jazz with its roots in the 60's and 70's. I have used the first cut of Lush life to audition com... | |
| Excellent Outdoor FM Antennas Re Pmotz's comments - I can only add that you can optomize an outdoor directional antenna by adding a rotor so you can point it directly at the station you are trying to bring in. I think that is why you wanted an omni, so you could get stations f... | |
| New to Classical Music - Album to try first?? Based on the minimum information you have about classical music, and assuming your primary interest is something that really sounds 'good' just buy a couple of Reference Recordings compilation records where they play some of the most assessible an... | |
| Which has greatest influence? I use the PL pre-amp in my system. Specifically what was the 'boost' you refer to. Can you describe the sonic differences it brought? What further improvements would you want to bring about by changing the PL3 out. Having some knowledge about the ... | |
| Which has greatest influence? The amp/speaker interface is the most important interface (or matching) in your system, right up there with matching cartridges and arms on a TT set up. But once you get that down, the weakest link in the chain saying applies. FWIW, if I were star... | |
| AM Antenna I have a Radio Shack AM antenna (loop about 1 ft in diameter encased in plastic. Like the Terk above it must be fine tuned to the station selected by the rotation of a dial. It can be hard wired to an am antenna input or just set next to the am tu... | |
| top ten things you learned about HiFi on Agon Can't get to 10 without repeating what others have contributed, but here are a couple....Most audiophiles listen to sound, not music.Most audiophiles listen to what sounds good before paying attention to performance quality.Many audiophiles think ... | |
| Jazz at the Pawn Shop... Personally I've always thought the reason it was so popular was because it's very atmospheric sound made folks think that their audio system's imaging was far better than it really was. This record made some fairly average systems sound good. A go... | |
| 90db, 7ohm speakers: tube amp recommendations? '90db 7ohm' (nominal impedence) is an oversimplified description of your speakers impedence when you are considering proper amplification. You really need to know what the impedence curve looks like, or at least where the major deviations are and ... | |
| coincident speakers do you have troubadors Another accolade for Trelja -When Joe was falling out of love with the Chinese manufacturer whose product he distributed, the dammed fool went public with all of the problems he had with them BEFORE he sold off his stock to the 'unsuspecting' publ... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Since I last posted in Oct 2001, I've went thru a whole lot of audiophile stuff, but I'm NOT an audioholic! Actually I'm probably in denial, though the last component I bought was 19 months ago and I've dropped my subscription to audiophile rag's,... | |
| mcintosh amps any one can explain impedance taps FWIW, You've chosen the right tap when you get the sound you enjoy most. Since you have speakers with a nominal 4ohm impedence I'd start with the 4 ohm tap. If your speakers don't have a serious dip in their impedence in the bass you will probably... | |
| Treating a small room with diffusers? There is no simple answer to your question, there are books written on this subject. The 'dead feeling of absorbsion' occurs in an overly damped room. Diffusion per se is not your solution, for example, if your 'deadness' is caused by excessive fu... | |
| No output on New LS26 FWIW, in your evaluative process - The signal you get from the 'record out' doesn't pass thru the pre-amp's line stage so you get full gain from the source when you take a signal from 'record out'. It signifys nothing about the source of your prob... | |
| Silverline Sonata III & McIntosh MC275? Bondmanp, FWIW, When I demo'd my Bolero's at Alan's I listened to some jazz over some stacked Minuets driven by Alan's inexpensive SS stuff, mentioned above, and probably what you heard at the show. Come to think about it, that is what was hooked ... |