onhwy61
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| Are Dealer Recommendations Useful or Useless? Viridian, I recognize that you're serious and I respect your opinion because it's based upon your direct experience. What I have trouble understanding is why if you walk into a Mercedes dealership do you expect them to recommend that you purchase ... | |
| Are Dealer Recommendations Useful or Useless? Viridian, are you serious about your last statement. Is just trying to sell a product an inherent conflict of interest? | |
| Are Dealer Recommendations Useful or Useless? Isn't the fact that a dealer carries a specific product line a recommendation for that product? Hopefully, they have mixed and matched their electronic lines with their speaker products such that each complements the other. I don't think you shoul... | |
| Dark and laid back vs bright and forward The audio language is imprecise. Sometimes I don't think anybody (audio reviewers in particular) knows what they are really talking about. | |
| Dark and laid back vs bright and forward Good question.I think I disagree with Rar1's answer. Bright refers to an emphasis on the upper mid-range/treble. The sound has an unnatural glare to it. Dark refers to a diminished upper mid-range/treble. The sound is somewhat "shut-in" and doesn'... | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? Rockinroni said, "Your rig is entry level, you will not be able to retrieve the lower 2 or 3 octaves on this turntable." If the lowest octave is 20-40Hz, then the turntable in question can't retrieve info any lower than 80-160Hz. Roni was being ki... | |
| integrated /seperates step down I don't have any experience with the equipment you mention, but two years ago I switched from separate Pass phono preamp, preamp and power amp to a Jeff Rowland Concentra I w/ phono. The sound was clearly different, but only slightly so in musical... | |
| Steely Dan - New release / June 10th Just spent a night listening to "Everything Must Go". Very good music, definitely a step up from the somewhat disappointing "Two Against Nature".Has anyone else noticed low frequency "thumps" on several of the tracks? | |
| Rock Music: 1951-1976 vs. 1977-2003 It's not that simple. Just from my limited music collection I consider the following artist as significant post-1976 artist:10,000 Maniacs, ABC, The Blasters, Joan Armatrading, Aztec Camera, David & David (Baerwald & Ricketts), Erykah Badu... | |
| Does full range guarantee bass? Equipment cannot gaurantee sub-50Hz bass. The key determinate of high quality deep bass is the interaction between your room and your speakers. Speaker/listener positioning is critical as well as appropriate equipment isolation from feedback. Some... | |
| Rock Music: 1951-1976 vs. 1977-2003 I think Clueless is onto something with his hormonal imbalance comment. Music just seems more important when you're a teen/young adult. I think that whatever music you're exposed to during these formative years becomes imprinted on the brain. My a... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Some of the above posts sound like middle age people rambling on about how good things were back in the day. As far as I'm concerned there was great pop/rock music being made in every decade since the 1950s and it's continuing thru the present dec... | |
| Analogue to Digital Converters I'm not familiar with the specific Yamaha unit, but I suspect that a 10 year old unit is not competitve with recent production A/Ds. If you do run an outboard A/D you'll also run the risk of higher jitter levels. | |
| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? Jazz - Jimmy BlantonPop - James JamersonHonorable mentions - Jaco, Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, Jack Cassady | |
| New York Philharmonic To Move Are you sure your info is correct? My sources tell me that the NYPO were moving to the Meadowlands and that the J-E-T-S were moving to Carnegie. |