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| The best speaker you ever heard? 1276 posts responding to “The best speaker you ever heard”. I haven’t read every post and I’m sure that there are many duplications as well as posts that don’t offer an opinion. But still, anybody seeking general recommendations for a speaker purc... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? If soundtracks are allowed, "West Side Story - original movie soundtrack. | |
| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? "The short answer is, we are protective of the word jazz- it's that simple. And that makes perfect sense. When a word" defining a specific level of excellence broadens to encompass other levels, less excellent, those who do credit to the origina... | |
| The Blues.... Great thread Muncybob. Muncybob, now theres a blues name for you. Thanks for passing it along - funny stuff. It made me run for my Alligator Records CDs. | |
| Can you recommend some classical CD's for me? This excellent reference tool would be a good start: The NPR guide to building a classical CD collection by Ted Libbey | |
| Who is the World's Best 'New' Female Vocalist Thanks Albert and Everest, the fact that they are unavailable" everywhere I look, as opposed to "more coming soon indicates rather strongly that they are currently out of print. Guess Ill have to wait until I have the courage to buy a DAC and s... | |
| Who is the World's Best 'New' Female Vocalist Albert,Thanks for the heads up on Rachael Price. I listened to excerpts on Amazon and couldnt agree with you more. Problem is, I cant find any of her CDs for sale, only downloads. Are you teasing us? :) | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR "The tubes don't hold bias well neither. Every other few days, I would need to re-bias the tubes. Bsimpson,My experience couldnt be more different. I installed the Royal Princesses and after three hours, set the bias at 1.09. By the next day, o... | |
| moody blues vs rock hall of fame The 70s without the Moody Blues? I cant even imagine that. Hell, it wouldnt have been the 70s without them. | |
| Mid-Fi Integrated Amps? This is from Stereophile measurements for PSB Synchrony One:"The speaker's impedance magnitude remained below 4 ohms throughout the midrange (fig.1, solid trace), with minimum values of 2.6 ohms at 1160Hz and 2.65 ohms at 73Hz. Though the electric... | |
| advantage of seperates vs integrated Just for the record, I replaced conrad johnson mono-blocks with an integrated amplifier. The integrated is much better as it should be for its price. I understand the "second banana status that integrated amplifiers have traditionally held in the... | |
| Marcin Wasilewski Trio "buying onlineShould have written: buying hi-rez downloads online. | |
| Marcin Wasilewski Trio Rja,I paid $13.69 for Achirana on Amazon. I cant find a reasonably priced Triangle either. These prices, for what I assume are out of print CDs, are another reason Im looking forward to getting a DAC someday and buying online. | |
| Marcin Wasilewski Trio Thanks guys. Based on your recommendations I ordered Achirana. Absolutely fantastic! The only problem is, its one of those CDs that sounds so good, it limits what you can play next. | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR "so would I expect the opposite in that I might not notice much difference with the Treasures on the 83db Ellis' but should be a wow with the Audio Notes. Curious.Thats a distinct possibility. A more revealing speaker should be more revealing of... |