onhwy61
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| Amp more important than speakers? If solid state people have transistors, then what's in the brains of tube people? A vacuum?Seriously, Inna your last post reduced the interaction between a speaker and a room to one sentence and the result is only reasonably well performance. I ca... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? It should be possible to match any good speakers to tube amps. If it is not then those speakers are either junk or designed for a very particular application.Now the person who made that comment must be...If your speaker doesn't interact at least ... | |
| What is the best compressed iTunes format? Rip without any compression and then create separate libraries for iPod compressed files. It will save you the time and effort of ever having to re-rip as your library evolves. I believe this is along the lines Mezmo suggested. | |
| Which SACD of Jazz at the Pawnshop sounds better? I remember when JATP meant Jazz At the Philharmonic. | |
| Replace pwr cord w/IEC socket on vintage gear? Rrog, you really think the engineers at Heathkit listened to the amp with different power cords and "voiced" it to their sonic preferences? You need to be careful when applying modern sensibilities to times gone by. | |
| Replace pwr cord w/IEC socket on vintage gear? I don't think the amp was voiced for the stock power cord. The amp probably wasn't voiced at all. It was spec'd out, and well spec'd out at that. Heathkit offered some excellent products. It's fine to replace the power cord, particularly if it's f... | |
| Replace pwr cord w/IEC socket on vintage gear? You don't need to put an IEC inlet on the amp. You can just remove the existing cord and replace it with a new power cord. It will make experimenting with different power cords more difficult, but it will require no drilling or cutting out holes i... | |
| Which SACD of Jazz at the Pawnshop sounds better? No GRPs, but several CTIs. | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Well executed active speakers the way to go. They have the potential to sound better than their passive counterparts and make the amp vs. speaker question moot. | |
| How to Solve Duplicate File Problem on iTunes I've been using iTunes since version 1 and have never had a duplicate file problem. I've always run it on a Mac platform and I'm currently using versions 9 and 10. Is the duplication issue something specific to Windows?It's mandatory to have backu... | |
| Clarence Clemons - RIP My info is from this recent article in Slate.More importantly:When the change was made uptownAnd the Big Man joined the bandFrom the coastline to the cityAll the little pretties raise their handsI'm gonna sit back right easy and laughWhen Scooter ... | |
| Clarence Clemons - RIP The punctuation inside the quotations mark rule is shifting. Grammarians are in protest, but popular usage is clearly moving to outside the marks. Further proof that it's still a living language.According to Mr. Springsteen he was playing at a clu... | |
| How to Solve Duplicate File Problem on iTunes Outlier, do your duplicates show the same "play count"? | |
| Anyone heard te Sony SS-AR1 Sony is obviously not a name you think of when it comes to high-end audioThat's an ignorant statement. | |
| How to Solve Duplicate File Problem on iTunes There's a "display duplicate" function under the "file" pull down menu. You should then be able to "delete" unwanted songs from the library. Be careful not to delete the actual song files. |