newbee
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| Ancient performance with today's sonics... Telarc did this for some of Rachmaninoff's piano rolls. Some of his own music and transcriptions, on 2 different CD's. Maybe not quite the same as a live performance but you'd have to do some very critical listening to note it. Highly recommended ... | |
| Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc? As you mention Blue note, Chesky, and Telarc I assume you're taking about mostly Jazz. If so, Concord Jazz has consistenly good sound and artists as well and a lot of Verve (but not all by some margin).If you're into classical some of the best lab... | |
| Somebody Help Convert me to tubes Well, probably not the response you're looking for, but if I were in you shoes (and I have been) I'd consider the speakers as well as the pre-amp. You might even re evaluate your need for tubes with different speakers. The only thing that you'd wa... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? I wish some one would identify for me the "perfect" upstream components that Pawlowski refers to so I can start to evaluate the performance of my speakers! :-)For myself, its all about fufilling my fantasy of what I want to hear in my room - I cer... | |
| AR-SP16 distortion problem I'd contact ARC and ask them. I've had similar experiences with a different model ARC but never care enuf to ask, I just don't use the second set of outputs. | |
| Dedicated cdps that excel in vertical soundstaging Phasecorrect, I will agree with you that CDP's can make a difference and had you asked for recommendations without the expression that "few add height" I think you might have gotten a few more responses on point, as opposed to the discourse on spe... | |
| "Bedini Ultra Clarifier", does it really work?? I've got one of those somewhere. I used it quite a few times and never noticed the difference. Stopped using it years ago. Anybody want it cheap? :-) | |
| Dedicated cdps that excel in vertical soundstaging Warren, When talking about vertical imaging its much more about the sense of space. But, FWIW I've heard "point source" speakers like your Caravalles for example, with solo voices where the voice seemed to originate from a location on a plane with... | |
| Vinyl Reason LOL. Your reason is far more rational than many that I have read here. You are to be congratulated for you candor - many would not admit to this. But, as you suggest, the reasons are many. Some never had a choice, it was vinyl or nothing (except t... | |
| Dedicated cdps that excel in vertical soundstaging Agree with Warrenh & Esoxhntr, with emphasis on the speaker design, which is more important than the room interface to the extent that a lot of speakers will not give you the height factor except at loud volumes no matter how well you set them... | |
| Amplifier hum: Does it need repair? In addition to Rich's comment, you can determine the source of the hum by disconnecting everything from the amp (when its turned off!) except for speaker cables and the speakers. Turn it on, no hum? Good. Turn it off, plug in IC's from pre amp (wi... | |
| Just Talkin' 'Bout Itzhak From your description I'd bet you could hardly tell it wasn't recorded and you thought that Perlman and the orchestra were just sinc'ing along. :-) | |
| Could somebody please explain Say thank you, and give him one of your "eclectic" disc's, proclaim its greatness, and send him on his way telling him he may not understand it now, but with repeated hearing he will ultimately come to understand it, as you do. Then smile a whole ... | |
| Silly Question: Short Power Cord + Ext. Cord? I'll be dammed if I know why but when I did this on one set up i got noise (hum) but on another curcuit it made no difference. I suspect it had nothing to do with the cable except for the fact that the it may have had a lesser capacity for resisti... | |
| Spade's Or Banana's on Double run from Integrated I like the spade/banana combo, especially if you get locking bananas. If you can hear the difference between good fitting bananas and spades you've got better ears than I do. If you use regular bananas get some electrical tape and tape them on so ... |