onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| Dave Alvin/From An Old Guitar Dave Alvin is a treasure who has released a trove of excellent albums, both solo and collaborations. | |
| system/room equalized flat from 20 to 20k cps--is yours? A room equalized flat to 20kHz at multiple listening spots will sound very bright. You want high frequencies smoothly rolled off starting around 7kHz. | |
| WHICH SONG FOR A GOOD CAUSE CAN YOU MENTION? Heaven 17's "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang". It has a beat, you can dance to it. | |
| My best retort to those that think we listen to our stereos more than the music I wish the OP would clarify. It appears that he is comparing listening to music on a good system as akin to sex with a good woman. At face value that's a pretty idiotic statement, but then again, maybe that's not what he meant. I like listening... | |
| My System's Weakest Link - What Say You... There are better phono preamps, but I don't see where you really have to change anything. | |
| 2 Ohm Tekton Pendragons My mistake on the oversight. | |
| 2 Ohm Tekton Pendragons I looked at the website and the Pendragon had 8 and 4 ohm options. Didn't see anything about 2 ohm. | |
| Is this an right time to buy hifi? Fiat is making some great cars now, so wouldn't fiat money be rising in value? | |
| moving from house to an apartment.. goodbye 802D's Regardless of sound traveling into your neighbors' space, will the 802d work well in their new room? I'd try them in the apartment before moving on the anything else. Neighbors can be funny. For some, no matter what you do, it's way too loud an... | |
| What To Replace A Pair Of Lamm Ml2 Monoblocks With? Need More Power Is there a reason you won't divulge the name and model of the loudspeaker? | |
| Two defective pieces in a row - unreasonable to demand refund? I like Dweller's advice, but I too would be nervous about a third unit. What does it say about McIntosh quality control? Would I have to worry about it functioning every time I want to hear music. Have a heart to heart conversion with the deale... | |
| How loud are you typically listening? Thanks for all the great replies. I am extremely jealous of those who have truly quiet rooms. My C weighted background level is 54dB; A weighted is 30dB. I live within a mile of an interstate highway entrance/exit with three truck stops. I do... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? I never really got Patti Smith, but I do remember sitting at a bar in the East Village, early 80s, and everyone at the table agreed that if you really dug Patti Smith, then you know that "Easter" is her best album. | |
| Dolby vs. pre-Dolby The time period you are talking about is also when transistor equipment replace tube microphones, recording consoles and tape recorders. As someone mentioned above, multi-tracking was also introduce at this time. To filter out the impact of Dolb... | |
| New-ish to Audiogon Forums... Is it always like this? This is not a good forum for true beginners. Someone has to have enough knowledge to ask specific questions and than know enough to weed through the responses. It can be confusing because so many people responding have their own biases. It's no... |