newbee
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| 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 ... | |
| Difference between Sonic Frontiers SFS and power The SFS and (SFM mono amps), tend to be a bit warmer in comparison to the Power series. Build quality is arguably a bit better in the Power series, but both are built like tanks. Sonically the Power Series are more like "liquid SS amps". The sonic... | |
| "It doesn't impress you at first..." Since I have never listened to live music in my room, and you can never listen live music if you are listening to an audio system, I just get the component that makes music sound most enjoyable to me (after I listen a while). Since no two componen... | |
| Tubed Integrated/$1500/New or Used Lean him towards the PrimaLuna if 35watts is enuf. Great little idiot proof tube amp. Perfect for newbies to tubes. Nothing to fuss over. | |
| Objects Between Speakers One of the side benefits of getting the stuff out from between your speakers, other than the major sonic benefits, is you don't just sit in your chair staring at all of your great components with much pride! You can actually listen to the music wi... | |
| speaker grilles Some speakers are in fact voiced to be heard with the grills on but I would imagine that most high end speakers are not. Listening with the grills on will muffle the tweeter to some degree, the mid range to a lesser degree. The grill frame could a... | |
| Older PURE CLASS-A Amplifiers Ecclectique, None, if I ever see them first. Its the only SS amp I've ever heard w/Quad 63's that I have enjoyed as much as tubes. It really is great. |