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| Classical Music for Aficionados Schubert, Irina Bogdanovich is one impressive alto, just plain marvelous!Is this available on CD. I haven't been able to find it. | |
| Bach Recording Recommendations Beatrice Rana's Goldberg Variations is hard to beat. Love it! | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? A real audiophile never has a wide sweet spot! :-) IME it's not so hard to get a wide(r) sweet spot by simply crossing the axis of your speakers well ahead of the sitting position(s). But what you might lose in doing so is the optimum depth of ima... | |
| The Absolute Sound vs Pleasing Sound An intelligent and well founded view I think. At least if mirrors mine. :-) | |
| SQ vs. Music In retrospect I think I spent far too much time (and money!) worrying about achieving SQ as described by the audio guru's. Not so much now - music selection is my only priority (unless something in my system is failing). My system/set up is very ... | |
| What causes the music to hum and distort when playing a vinyl record Counter intuitive perhaps, but try disconnecting the ground wire. Next make sure your 'wires' are not routed near any power supplies or transformers. | |
| Vinyl headache from hell!!! Anti skate setting perhaps? | |
| Reference Recordings Just for fun I dug out Eiji Oue’s Mephisto & Co CD. I played it back on my Marantz 11S3 CDP. Sort of closed in and dullish - greatly reduced sound stage. I run up the volume - it improved considerably, but really nothing great. Then I put it o... | |
| Help! Can't Get Rid Of Buzz in system at Higher Volumes Did you try a simple cheater plug on the Sutherland power cord. I know that that you did try a Hum X but that is not as simple as a cheater. I used one succesfully on a CDP which also introduced a 'buzz'. | |
| What would you do? Sound staging, especially 'depth of image' is principally the product of the recording. If it is there, and in few it is, the rest of it is found in your speaker/room set up. You are not likely to be able to enhance sound staging to any meaningfu... | |
| What would you do? I agree w/Jones. Get a Schitt Loki, a 4 band tone control which will help you tailor your sound issues. It has bands at 400 and 2000hz which might easily help correct your problem. You put it between your source and your integrated amp. It is rela... | |
| Strange buzz issue! Try putting a 'cheater' plug on the pre-amp and see if hum goes away. If it does you have a simple grounding issue to resolve (then the debate about how will commence). | |
| Gain Matching - need advice FWIW I agree with markmuse. They are cheap and effective. Obviously they require another set of cables and you (as some others) might find them less than transparent). If you can they would be great in a tape loop. If you found you really liked th... | |
| Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's... Don't know if you can use this in your system but, on the cheap side of solutions which might work you can always try a Schitt Loki, a tone control which has a control centered at 2k Hz which can really tone down that upper mid-range which many fi... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Mendelssohn's 'Songs Without Words' was my first attraction to his music for solo piano (many years ago). I started with Barenboim's and most recently acquired Shelley's in the 4 vol set. All good - I think I still like Barenboim's more of these ... |