newbee
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| New Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil Vespers Aceto, Sharp eyes! I've said it before, I can't edit worth a crap! As to my reticence to post, its guys like you!!!!!(Not!) My dictionary shows under A, "a capella". So my sin is, apparently, the omission of "an" not a seperation of the 'a' from c... | |
| Folks with large collections..... Aggielaw, I have some of the RCA CD remasters - If I didn't have the LP's I might have thought they were OK, just sort of bleached out perhaps. But in comparison, well there is no comparison! I was thinking more about a lot of new issues in the la... | |
| Need Help With a Bright System You might want to read a thread that just concluded a couple of days ago "Why am I experienceing listeners fatigue". There is much info therein which may be helpful. After reading thru it, follow-up with some detail about your room size and furnis... | |
| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? Yeh, We argue endlessly about minutia that most ordinary folks can't envision, let alone hear. And, we do it with a sense of certainty and authority that boggles the mind. Talk about hearing flea farts in an auditorium! But its fun so long as its ... | |
| Folks with large collections..... Nrchy - Re "What the heck does that mean". I'd guess that reflects your response to my attempt at a humerous barb about your attraction to solid state stuff. You might be suggesting that I lack class or manners because of the nature of my posts in... | |
| Surface Plate as Stand Opinions FWIW, I would never use stone, glass (melted stone), or metal under a TT. It rings. I would choose wood which can absorb vibrations as well as allow some transmission to another absorbing materiel underneath the wood. Sure looks pretty though. | |
| Listening habits Nrchy, I always thought you didn't know where the swith was....otherwise you wouldn't have all that SS stuff. :-)I have one system or another going about 8 hours a day. Serious listening - I usually devote a couple of hours in the evening. | |
| Test CD for positioning speakers and subwoofer A Sterephile test CD and a Radio Shack meter for the bass works well, a Cardas Disc for set up (includes a "walk about" which I find helpful), and I use an Opus 3's "Depth of Image" to fine tune, as well as other ordinary disc's with which I'm ver... | |
| Most "Ruthlessly Revealing" Speakers. Your opinion "Ruthlessly revealing" is IMHO an oxymoron. Revealing is great - you can't get better than a speaker which can reveal all that the electonics have to offer. But, when the upper mids and highs are boosted to artifically give the appearance of more ... | |
| Just upgraded to the DK VS-1 Signature Please list all of the amps under 20K that you have listened to in your home with your present equipment. As it stands all we know is that you like the more expensive DK than the cheaper one. I applaude you for your perserverance in the face of ad... | |
| I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah Quick follow up - I can't edit worth a crap! The Stallings album is "Remember Love". | |
| I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah Mary Stallings has been mentioned before. She has a new release "Rember Love" on Half Note Records. Some scat, some lush jazz renditions of standards. Excellent music, recording is very high quality. Good place to start if you haven't heard her yet. | |
| Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue? Well, FWIW, I have mild tinitus and I can't abide any irregularity or excessive brightness in my audio. This has driven me to pay close attention to eliminating these problems. The result is I can listen for hours w/out difficulty. In fact in tuni... | |
| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? Perhaps I'm lucky, but my friends are tactful enuf not to tell me that I'm a whacko because I 'collect' audio equipment or music. Maybe you need new a new class of friends. :-) The assumption that there are a lot of folks who think we are whackos ... | |
| AR LS7 v SP14 My experience with the SP14 has shown it to be a very detailed, clinical and bright sounding pre-amp. I've no experience with the P270. The LS7 is a nice budget tube amp, not overly warm or bright. Tube changes can make a difference in its tone. H... |