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| HELP requested for system setup analogue source With that junk its no wonder the sounds sucks! JUST KIDDING!!!!!If you want some decent answers why don't you describe the room including all dimensions, furnishings, openings (incl glass windows, and present location of speakers and listening pos... | |
| equipment rack along the back wall-Bad? Shouldn't really have much effect on the sound, however I would stand where the racks are during loud music with substantive bass and see if the bass waves are setting up a lot of vibes in your equipment, phono especially. Both the front and rear ... | |
| Smetana Ma Vlast I don't know what your taste run to or what you've heard, but here are a few that come to mind....From the romantic period: Fibich, Novak, and a BIG one, Franz Liszt. From the modern period Martinu and Rozsa. That, and the few I mentioned before w... | |
| Smetana Ma Vlast Reprince, You're right of course, I just got carried away...I just love Eastern European music. So much life in it, unlike the more somber stuff from Germany. Just think of the Czech's I didn't include.........:-) | |
| Smetana Ma Vlast Avguygeorge, Not to hi-jack a Smetana thread, but as you brought it up......Dvorak's other symphonies are not chopped liver! I enjoy and recommend the entire nine symphonies, but especially 3, 5, 6, 8 and of course 9. The violin concerto, and his ... | |
| Smetana Ma Vlast Well, I would agree that Kubelik's live record on Supraphon is very special indeed, as they were celebrating an occasion, his return to his native land after a forced exile of over 40 years. However, from a recording quality I find it somewhat fla... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Volados playing Schubert Solo Piano Works, which includes an outstanding version of the Sonata in G major (894). Who would have guessed that Volados could have given such a beautiful rendition - he really dumbed down the showy aspect of his earlie... | |
| Best Sounding Recording Tough question for me, I always get involved in the music and ignor the recording quality, or I don't like the music and get rid of it. That said, I put on the Reference Recording of Copland's music. The first cut, Fanfare for a Common Man is fair... | |
| Add a DAC vs. Upgrade CDP In your position I'd bypass the first purchase. Wait 'til you've put aside $1000 and get a Benchmark DAC. | |
| Sweden's Opus 3 label LP...one of the best I agree with Rushton. Got me some of their Swedish Jazz LP's as well as their test records (Cuts are on the "test" records). OK jazz but outstanding sonics. For any readers who are interested someone is selling the "Test" records thru an AGon auct... | |
| is interconnect more important than speaker cable If you are happy with your system as is, be happy! You've already done your fair share of supporting the cable industry. For my main system I bought some Cardas Hexlink years ago and my equipment either works with it or it don't - no more "new and... | |
| Help with CD player upgrade I agreed with Slappy, You're going off to college and you're thinking about an audio system! Thats not what college is about!!!!!! Buy a boom box - anything else is likely to be stolen or otherwise destroyed. | |
| Difference between Sonic Frontiers SFS and power My unreliable aural memory of the Counterpoint Amps and pre-amps is that they were voiced on the cool side, probably closer to the Power series (the key word is probably) I've never done a comparison. Counterpoint point stuff has a bit of a reputa... | |
| How do you know a loudspeaker is the best? Your question suggests that you have no basis for evaluating the quality of a speaker. The only thing I can assure you of you don't measure it by its cost, size or type. Design and quality of parts/built are very important but they don't make a sp... | |
| Big Sound = Big Speakers = Big Problems? I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "big sound" so I'm going to assume you mean a dimensionally large soundstage. I agree with Sogood, larger speakers aren't necessarily going to help you at all, except that some panel speakers and line stages ... |