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| Music that everyone else loves but you just don't Oh, and Bon Jovi. Spare me. | |
| Music that everyone else loves but you just don't Aerosmith. Their music is so shallow it isn't even funny. Especially their stuff from the 80's and forward. Yeah they're having a good time, but their faking it all the way. | |
| question about "lower" priced CD players/DACs I would like to chime in here since I used to have an Adcom combo (pre-amp + amp). I agree with the folks who suggest focusing on things other than your digital components first. While I agree that the Adcom stuff is competent, I think it can easi... | |
| Cable Upgrade: Too much transparency While the GFA 545 II has great weight and punch in the lows, its top end can be forward and unrefined. Not sure which cables you had in the system before, but by adding the more transparent cables you may have exposed this weakness that was otherw... | |
| Extremely well recorded jazz double bass? cymbals? For bass, also check out Harvie S with Kenny Barron, "Now Was The Time" and Michel Petrucciani & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen "Petrucciani/NHOP." Second the Keith Jarrett trio releases on ECM. Careful though...I find that "extremely well reco... | |
| Rega DAC RCA cable recommendations? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Black Cat Veloce is a digital cable that runs from a digital source to a DAC. Sruffle, you were asking about cables to run from the DAC to preamp. You could call the cable company and try some different ones from t... | |
| Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists? Billy Bang. I recently listened to his Vietnam - The Aftermath CD, after having not listened to it for many years, and it was a good listen. | |
| Power Cord brands mixing. "Your Opinions" 558 - while I don't have your exact combination of power cables, I have something similar. I have one each of LAT AC-2, AC-2 MKII and LAT AC-3 in my system. The AC-2 feeds my amp; the AC-2 MKII feeds my preamp, and the AC-3 feeds my PS Audio Juice... | |
| Foam plugs for Proac Response 3.8? Is the room sufficiently filled with enough items, such as a sofa, ottoman, bookcase, etc? Do you have carpet or something else? When I moved into my new house, my stereo system preceded all the furniture by a few weeks. In my listening room, the ... | |
| Piano Notes On Harbeth SHL 5 A good solo piano recording, such as Herbie Hancock's "The Piano" should help you zero in more on whether or not you think there is an issue. Recording-wise, this is about as perfect as a solo piano recording I know of. Good luck. | |
| Best lines in a song "I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine"says it all | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has Louis Armstrong | |
| Underrated jazz greats Great and not (as) celebrated. Guitar - Steve Masakowski, Steve Khan, Phil Upchurch, Dave Stryker, Ernest Ranglin, Mark Elf. Bass - Harvie S. Harmonica - Hendrik Meurkens. Sax - Mark Turner, George Coleman. Trumpet - Claudio Roditi, Jon Faddis. Pi... | |
| Underrated jazz greats I second the votes for Paul Desmond, Kenny Barron and Sonny Clark. Also on sax: Dave Liebman. On trumpet, I vote for Tom Harrell - an absolute master at blowing in-the-pocket, economical solos. Piano - Michel Petrucciani. Not necessarily known as ... | |
| Terrible/Inappopriate songs ... The song American Garage from the Pat Metheny Group album American Garage. |