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| Cheapest Analogue Setup to Conquer Best Digital Jimbo my friend, none of the above. I'm now into cylinders. It don't get any better... | |
| Definin' the blues (humor) I don't know if I should laugh or cry. The Blues is a serious business man. And yes, Canada is a place to sing the Blues, especially Québec. The Blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind. Believe me I got plenty of that. But the Blues is ... | |
| Cheapest Analogue Setup to Conquer Best Digital Sean, I would appreciate a list of those great recordings you are talking about. By the way, if you read my post the way it was intended to be read, I have not said that there is nothing good left to be said for vinyl. Instead of being delusional ... | |
| Cheapest Analogue Setup to Conquer Best Digital Any music with quiet passages (as you know silence is an integral part of music) on vinyl LPs should normally send you up a tree. The great pretence is that vinyl is more involving, more liquid, more musical, more detailed... the list goes on, you... | |
| cajun zydeco Clifton Chenier 'cause my grandma was a Chenier. Try "Bon ton roulet" on Arhoolie. It may be a little too authentic if all you have to compare it with is Buckwheat Zydeco, but since you seem to have first hand experience it may not set you back on... | |
| What have you been listening to these five weeks? Etta James, "Her Best", true soul, great blues singer. "Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago", Bruckner, Symphony No 4. Berlin Philarmoniker conducted by Gunther Wand (live recording) and Beethoven Symphonies No 1 & 2 NDR- Simfonieorchester ... | |
| How could surround sound be used in an audiophile system? A bit of a stretch on my part, saying that you can't get soundstaging etc. with just two speakers. Should have said that with a lot of dry recordings, early CDs, inauspicious room conditions, mono recordings and the like, the JVC XL Z 1010 can pro... | |
| Music for "Tough Times" Ah yes, the dreaded last man on earth feeling... I pondered this one for a while. I was wondering whether, in fact, I did listen to music for such therapeutic use. I am still not sure if, in fact, I have specific doldrums music, but here goes:When... | |
| Speaker Cables, One side longer- bad idea? So this means I can't move my head anymore when I listen. Not one millionth of a centimetre, I gather, Well, hum... Let's see, how about a head vise (no not lice) with laser level type things to make sure the well seated (and heeled) audiophile do... | |
| Speaker Cables, One side longer- bad idea? Wow! Science rearing its ugly head! Such nerve. Obviously the golden eared listeners can hear such phase difference, and then some. To introduce arguments using numbers, you silly person... You have to own Bose 901s, right? By the way, to put out ... | |
| what speakers do the best "disappearing act"?? I think the disappearing act is also closely dependent on the source material. I auditioned Dynaudios (the ones with the Esotar tweeter, in the range one up from the Contour, but about the same size and driver complement as a Contour 3.3) with Pas... | |
| Under speaker metal SPIKES ...what is the point ? Well first it ruins your carpet or hardwood floor. In theory, all the weight of the speaker being on a tiny little point increases the pressure on the floor at its contact point and better couples the speaker to the room and prevents it from vibra... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Me again, Didn't see any mention of Oscar Peterson in there. He is a giant. Oscar Peterson in Russia on Pablo with Niels Pedersen and Jake Hanna is one old piece of vinyl I still go back to once in a while. I like Sonny Stitt also, I remember one ... | |
| More Power??? Assuming we are dealing with identical amps, would it not be better to bridge each into a mono amp? In such a case the power would be more than doubled. Someone more technically astute than me could explain why and how much power would then, at le... | |
| Jazz Recommendations Read quickly through the various posts. Seems no one mentioned big bands. I like the Toshiko Akioshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, Tales of a Courtesan and Long Yellow Road. Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass (I know the name sounds lame) Big Band Volume... |