ohteeel
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| Choice of used floorstander for 1k or under used? Soliloquy 5.3 - Transparent, musically detailed, great bass, huge soundstage, speakers disappear and create a wall to wall soundspace, easy to drive with tubes or solid state. Beautifully made with real veneers and probably the best floor spike/le... | |
| Your Top 5 Sax Players? Lester Young, Jerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, James Carter, and Joe Lovano. | |
| Gallo reference /TAS vs Me I can tell you that the Gallo's are the best all around speaker I have ever owned (Maggie's, Proacs, Soliloqy's, Mission 770's, Sonus Faber's). The only speaker other speaker that challenges them is my pair of System Audio SA2K's which is the best... | |
| various amps / and pre's with Soliloquy Gunbunny,You have chosen a speaker that is very versitile relative to the amps you can use. In a moderate size room you should be able to drive them with anything from a higher powered single ended amp such as the Antique Sound Labs 845 based mono... | |
| MFSL Original Master Loudspeakers OML-2 & OML-1 I was at their operation in Chicago recently and actually saw the floorstanders. They are beautiful to look at in the fancy finishes, even better than the Silverlines. They were playing at the time but in a room that was way to large to get a true... | |
| Medieval-style music I am huge fan of early music. There is a wealth of well recorded and performed examples available. Along with Dorian and Harmonia Mundi, the Astree and Alia Vox labels featuring Jordi Savall and others, the Sony (Rolf Erichson produced) recordings... | |
| Bach Brandenberg Concertos CD Recommendation You should give Jordi Savall and his band on Astree a try. A close second is Pinnock and the English Consort. The Astree has uniformly better sonics, in fact Astree gets my vote for the best early music label because of their interesting repertoir... | |
| Most Sublime Beethoven Symphony Beethovens music is the only music that has moved to think that God was holding the composition pen directly as the notes were being put down. It is amazing to think that Beethoven reportedly labored over his compositions. You would think that his... | |
| First Sound preamps....feedback please. We have a lot of wrong info flying around here! The recent FS preamps are not passive and do not use batteries. Early FS preamps were passive. I was thrilled when they offered the gain type series of preamps that we are discussing in this thread. ... | |
| Better magazine, Stereophile or Absolute Sound I try not to get caught up in the which is better debate anymore. I simply look for the knowledge and insight that I can gain from each. If they are redundant or misleading they go into the subscription trash can. The audio magazines, for the most... | |
| NOS Tubes inferior? There is a good chance that you will be dissapointed with NOS tubes if you try only one brand. There is no reliable predictor of how a specific NOS tube is going to sound in your system without trying them out. Hence the term "tube rolling" which ... | |
| Best SS 200 wpc amps Try the Marsh A400. At a little over 2k, it is an incredible bargain. In fact it is the all around best SS amp I have heard. I own one and only very high quality tube amps have been able to beat it. | |
| Marsh or McCormack I own a Marsh A400 and really value it in my system. It is very revealing of that which is in front of it. The charachter of the amp is very neutral with a huge and deep soundstage and exceptionally solid base. I have never been able to get this a... | |
| The Big Boys vs. the Little Guys I do not see it as big versus little. I do not care who makes the cable as long as it sounds good. In my system I have a combination of Monster Sigma, Homegrown Silver Lace, Electraglide, Harmonic Tech, Apogee, Vampire and Synergistic Research. A ... | |
| Sound quality vs. Mood This is a fascinating post. This is an area that I have begun to give more thought to. I think it is a given that power quality is difficult variable to control despite all the conditioners that we employ to clean up the lines. Mood and mental sta... |