newbee
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| Musicophilia - music & relationship to the brain FWIW, I suspect that audiophile activities are in inverse porportion to the ability of the listener to appreaciate (understand) musical content. When the musical content is complex and requires concentration who has time to think about audiophile ... | |
| Music Recommendations Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' Berlioz's 'Symphnie Fantastique'Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' suitesRachmaninoff's Symphonic DancesBTW, I assume from 'traditional classical music' you mean stuff by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. If so con... | |
| Pet audiophile peeves - name yours My greatest irritation is I can't spell and its too late to edit my last post! :-) | |
| Pet audiophile peeves - name yours Shadrone, Perhaps some folks are extrodinarily affluent and just don't wish to embarrass the 'ordinary' folks by showing (off) their set up. :-) | |
| Is Quad ESL57 most amazing speaker of all time? Shadrone, Gordon was right - at the time at least. Anyone want to buy mine! :-) | |
| Is Quad ESL57 most amazing speaker of all time? I can see where you are coming from. There is nothing wrong with your observations. I've always considered the 57's the speaker equivalent of an idiot savant, that is what they do well they do supurbly. Problem is there are so many thing that they... | |
| Trying to maximize bass response ...... The RS meter is not accurate in the lower bass frequencies. Usually it measures low in a curve moving up to flat at or above 100hz. I have a correction chart and I've also used the Rives disc corrected for the RS errors. The dip is still there. Ac... | |
| Pet audiophile peeves - name yours 1) Audio salesmen disguised as end users on audio forums who are in fact only there to make a buck. We should start a list.......2) Folks who don't know the difference between their opinion and fact (my opinion!). :-)3) Shoddily made, yet well reg... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations Laverne Butler, Rene Marie and Mary Stallings. Fine jazz singers. | |
| Speaker Preferences? Apparently Mr T, compression doesn't concern you. As opposed to more realistic dynamic range that is. Bugged the hell out of me. Thats the main reason my Quads are in a closet. Oh, yeh, I forgot Quads don't play loud either. But we all have our ow... | |
| Raysonic 128 Soundstage I agree with the assessments of the 128 above and I would add that tube selection (assuming you're using the stock EH's and feel that the highs are a bit surpressed) might make it sound more expansive in some systems.Now the comments you will hate... | |
| Knowing Nothing About Capacitance... The sound with the Denon should be slightly brighter and more forward than optimum. The degree to which this appears depends on the rest of your system, your set up, and your expectations. I had a control on my pre-amp which allowed me to change t... | |
| Good way to connect 2 subs? I agree with Tvad.Still have that hum I see. I doubt that the way you had connected the sub caused your hum though. You will find out when you change it. Assuming it does not I would suggest that you attack the hum issue more aggressively by unplu... | |
| My new room is 8 x 16 x 32, what to do? FWIW most empty rooms with out domestic furnishings such as rugs, drapes, pictures, furniture, etc will have echo slap. Don't let that overly concern you. Apart from room induced nodes in the bass created by room dimensions, most of your room prob... | |
| Clarinet Music on vinyl or CDs You didn't indicate an interest in jazz, but should that interest you Ken Peplowski and his quartet have a bunch of recordings of laid back jazz on Concord Jazz. A couple that I enjoy are "It's a Lonsome Old Town" and includes Charlie Byrd, Marian... |