niodari
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| Black Sabbath and Jazz fans? I would not mix hard rock with jazz I still fully enjoy Black Sabbath and other my favourite rock bands. I am a big jazz fan as well spending considerably more time listening to jazz and classical music, but occasionally when my wife is not at hom... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Coax drivers for mid and high range help in a better two way design and the sound is perhaps more coherent in such two way and even more coherent in a one way design than in a three way speakers. | |
| Top 10 Live Albums referring to point 4 of the original post, Pictures at an exhibition of Emerson Lake and Palmer is an exceptional live album. | |
| Is anyone here still into live concerts these days? In exceptional rare cases I can go to live concerts. if not completely acoustic the sound quality on such concerts is considerably worse than with my audio system. So it becomes like a waste of time and money. | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis As already mentioned in this thread Miles Davis had much more wider interests in music. Not less importantly, he contributed in the formation of many outstanding musicians. | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit To my taste, it would be hard to find a solid state amplifier that fully substitutes a tube amp features. McIntosh solid state amplifiers tend to sound quite warm. Just for fun, you can also try a class D amplifier, you may like the result. I'm... | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo If you like jazz, "88 Basie Street" by Count Basie on JVC 20 bit K2 is particularly well recorded. In general many albums on JVC 20 bit K2 series are well recorded. | |
| Tube Amp recommendation for Thiel CS1.6 under $2k I don't have CS 1.6s, but I have been using Manley Stingray push pull amplifier for over 20 years with 4 different pairs of Thiel speakers including CS 1.9 and CS 3.6 (which I guess are the closest to CS 2.6 with very nice results. In fact I tri... | |
| Speaker cable length. For many years, in my second audio system, I am using cables of different length, one is about 3 times longer than another. I used different speakers and amplifiers. I noticed no problem and no differences at all. | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Mahgister, thanks for the clarification on "taste marketing", apparently, I did misunderstand you in this issue, which is a relevant point. but, if I am not wrong, here the aim of marketing is to "establish and control" audiophile tastes, not visa... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? *talks* —“thoughts”, sorry for the misprint | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Mahgister, you expressed your talks perfectly well. I also understand what “not even wrong” means. But let me not agree with you. Firstly, I don’t see any relationship between individual taste and marketing. I am too far from marketing but I thin... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? It is good to talk on motivations and fundamentals of our audiophile hobby... Too many posts, was basically able to read the beginning of this nice thread. I agree that subjectivity factor cannot be ignored, we may perceive things in different wa... | |
| Robert Plant I should the same feelings regarding Led Zeppelin and Plant from my early childhood. These BBC recordings are particularly good and their quality is not bad for the year. Led Zeppelin remains my favorite rock band along with Emerson Lake & Pal... | |
| I found the best way to recycle my old tubes! "If you can feed them with electricity they will look even more attractive :" But be very careful not to provoke fire |