phaelon
Responses from phaelon
| Best Integrated Amp You Ever Heard? Im using a New Audio Frontiers Supreme 300b Special Edition. Its a stop listening to your system with audiophile ears and just start enjoying the music type of component. | |
| Top 5 Hamburgers "I gotta ask what the fans of "five guys" are smoking?The good stuff. | |
| Do you understand your amplifier? Its Italian - I like a lot of Italian stuff. Its got tubes - I like tubes. It has moderate power - moderate power tube amps sound best to me. I have enough things in my life demanding understanding. I engage my stereo system to help me forget th... | |
| The Evolution of Modern Jazz I have a passion for jazz and love just about everything mentioned above. The few I havent heard, I just ordered. Admitting to a lack of scholarship on the subject, Id nevertheless like to offer these by a couple of guys that havent been mentio... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR Hi Maxmad, Im a happy owner of the Sophia Royals. I wont disagree with your findings, which I couldnt do anyway because you compared them to tubes I havent heard, but Id like to say that 213 cobras points are very well stated. Ive heard a v... | |
| Mystical Performances Heres one that I suspect is relatively unknown and, I think, under appreciated, but to me, "mystical performance describes it perfectly: Regina Carter - "Paganini: After a Dream. | |
| Is Kind of Blue the Best Jazz Album Ever I agree with you Orpheus. As much as I like and admire "Kind of BlueÂ, "Something Else is actually quite a bit better, IMO. | |
| Help with a first tube amp Please "I am looking to buy an amp.I have never heard a tube amp...Please, first listen to a couple of tube amps before you make an investment. Folks rave about sushi, but nobody knows if they like it until they try it. Likewise, after youve experience... | |
| Where to use Isolation devices With your indulgence, a rant:If I walk into a familiar room, full of knickknacks, Im much more likely to notice a newly acquired knickknack, than I am to notice the removal of one. Thats because, over time, we all become consciously blind to det... | |
| worse entertainer or performer of all time?? Im feeling real ambivalence about this submission, seeing as she pretty much launched me into puberty. But based strictly on talent and performance as skills, and not, well,...eh-hem... you know; Im reluctantly nominating Joey Heatherton. (I sti... | |
| worse entertainer or performer of all time?? Kenny G makes me grind my teeth. | |
| Is berkeley dac as good as absolute sound review? Pubal57, I understand your point - that the reviewer wouldnt by a component that he didnt find musically satisfying. But I think the counterpoint is valid too - that a component purchased at a noncompetitive price might not be quite the endorsem... | |
| Looking for opinions on Tannoy Prestige line. Mapman sums it up perfectly for me too - "Gotta hear these someday. Other speakers that similarly intrigue me are those that use the PHY dual concentric drivers. Just wondering if anyone has heard both and could offer a comparison. I hope this is... | |
| Help me identify music. Thanks Al, the girlfriend will be delighted (lol) - another excuse to watch a John Wayne movie. | |
| Help me identify music. Thanks for your responses and suggestions fellas. You guys must be right about its film origin. There have been over three hundred views of this thread. If it was a classical piece, Im sure someone would have recognized it. |