onhwy61
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| Billie Holiday's Best Vinyl Recordings? They come in various collections, but the Billie Holiday/Lester Young recordings are a must listen. As a stylist Billie owes much to Louis, as do all jazz singers. | |
| How to choose speakers that won't overpower your room? Think about how far you have to place the Sonus Fabers from the rear wall. An absolute minimum of 3 feet, but preferable 5 or 6 feet. Then, how far are you going to sit from the loudspeakers? As a factor of how far apart you place the loudspeak... | |
| Background vibration and your system. Fascinating. At one point I lived in an old wood framed house in Indianapolis about 12 miles from the airport and a half mile from the interstate. The passing of heavy trucks over a short overpass bridge on I-65 was something you could hear and ... | |
| Did I Expect too much? I suspect a $6 binding post is a perfectly good quality binding post. A Cardas binding post is 10x the cost. It should sound better. For me $15k is a large sum of money to spend on an audio component, but in today's market it won't buy SOTA par... | |
| Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms? On rare occasions. | |
| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... I've got recordings that make my system sound horrible, and I've got recordings that make my system sound absolutely wonderful. I'm thinking that you have it backwards. You have records that sound horrible or wonderful and your system sounds t... | |
| Lay sonus faber on the side? It will not hurt the loudspeakers, but they will not sound as they were designed. Expect drastic differences in soundstage/imaging. | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. Bands should be treated as "black boxes" with no insight to their inner workings, otherwise it distracts from the music. Within wide limits I just don't care what type of person the musician is or whether they get along with each other. As long ... | |
| A great, great talk by Robbie Robertson on all things The Band. Imagine The Band without Robbie Robertson? How about Little Feat without Lowell George or The Beach Boys without Brian Wilson? They were all interesting bands that produced high quality music without their former chief songwriter, but they are e... | |
| Audible illusions need Balanced output You could use external Jensen transformers between the AI preamp and ARC amp. | |
| I am sad A public display of self-pity. MAN UP SOLDIER! There's no crying in High End Audio. | |
| Why Energize the Whole Room/Virtual Reality Audio? Confirmed. | |
| Why Energize the Whole Room/Virtual Reality Audio? CDC, I don't know the answer to those questions. Deep333, I don't think you understand the premise. | |
| Joey Molland has passed away I didn't know who Mr. Molland was until an old interview with him came up on my news feed yesterday. He talked about how watching Elvis P. inspired him to play guitar and how he wasn't really interested in joining Badfinger because they weren't h... | |
| Do you grade your albums? I rate by how much I like the music with sound quality having no consideration. One to five stars plus an added category of "All Time Best". The recording quality thing just eliminates too much great music. I'd rather listen to a primitive qual... |