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| Reel to Reel; Digital players ; & Turntables/LP's I was just enjoying my Technics 2 track today, and thinking how far superior it is to everything else I own. | |
| Who is your favorite jazz pianist While most of the pianist already chosen could qualify as my favorite, I'm suprised no one picked Bobby Timmons or Sonny Clark. In case you've forgotten how they sound I've included a few links.Bobby Timmons worked with Blakey and the Messengers, ... | |
| Spectron Musician III MK.2 or Audio Research DS450 When high end emporiums were accessible, it was possible to audition the latest technology. Now we have to learn as much as possible from discussions. In this case, I consider ALL discussion valid, including those who have never heard a Class "D" ... | |
| Tube AMP or SS "Watts are watts, and they are calculated the same way", is absolutely true. It is also true that efficient speakers require fewer watts. While these are electronic facts, "watts are watts" is not an "audio fact". For reasons unknown to me, that a... | |
| Tube AMP or SS So far you have been given good advice. If you picture the sound in your room like a pot of soup, you will understand it better. Anything you put in the soup will alter the taste a bit. Although separate, if you view amp and pre as one you'll get ... | |
| How do you test different tubes? NOS last longer, and NOS sound much much better than currently manufactured tubes; they cost more for a reason. Read other threads on this subject and you'll discover why we buy NOS tubes as opposed to current manufactured tubes.NOS stands for New... | |
| to upgrade or not, that is the question Maybe you should have thrown in "tweek" as another option. Something as simple as new "tone arm wire" can make a big difference. | |
| Should I try to improve speakers at $2000.00 range If you like the speakers you have, that's a very difficult question; especially when there are so many different flavors of speakers, and you can't possibly know which flavor you like best without "auditioning". | |
| Toots Thielemans In my opinion, "Affinity" is the best ever by "Toots" or "Bill". I have numerous LP's headed by Toots and Bill as well as many featuring them as sidemen, and beyond any doubt in my mind; "Affinity" represents their best works.Although I like all o... | |
| Best Way To Archive Vinyl On My PC Correction on my last post. It won't make any difference whether you run it "line in, line out" on your pre, or direct to the Benchmark. The ability to monitor is a good thing. | |
| Best Way To Archive Vinyl On My PC Seldenr, after extensive critical listening to the playlist of my vinyl, I've come to the conclusion that any shortcomings are in the original analog domain.Although I have a large vinyl collection which was the result of natural accumulation befo... | |
| difference beetwen pc audio and hi-end? PC is much cheaper. I have gotten improvement in sound for $200. utilizing PC that would have cost a minimum of $1000. before I discovered PC. Yesterday I compared the sound from my "playlist" to a Marantz transport feeding a DTI before going into... | |
| Best Way To Archive Vinyl On My PC Licorice, for the record: none of my post's indicated that I recommended anything that I used to download vinyl. Archive is too sophisticated a word to describe what I've done.Now I'm going to describe what I will do in order to archive my vinyl. ... | |
| About synergy? Rok2id, have you thought of seeing a psychiatrist? | |
| About synergy? I once visited an audiophile who had all the right equipment, but was not getting the Class A sound he should have been getting. The only thing that I saw was his patchwork assortment of interconnects, all good but different. With so many differen... |