photon46
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| Best short-lived band? Ginger Baker Trio: Ginger Baker, Bill Frissel, Charlie Haden. Check 'em out, GREAT power trio jazz/rock. | |
| Rock Maple substitute Having read Mapleshade Audio's article on their website lauding maple, I still wonder if other woods aren't equally capable of serving well for shelving. I'd tend to think all tonewoods have resonant frequencies that might be more or less useful d... | |
| Review: Antique Sound Labs Flora EX DT Line Preamplifier Tube preamp Thanks for your well written and structured review. The Flora has definitely caught my eye as a potential purchase. Hope it continues to give you listening pleasure for a long time. | |
| Harmonia Mundi "New Releases" disc samplers Psacanli, yes that's the one I was talking about. I didn't realize there was the "upcoming release" sampler series from HM as well. You are right about the paucity of good classical music retailing at the local level. I've given up on local retail... | |
| Harmonia Mundi "New Releases" disc samplers If you go to www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com you can buy a seven disc Harmoni Mundi sampler "Europa" for less than $20.00. Just enter Harmoni Mundi into the search parameters. I've bought a number of Harmoni Mundi samplers from them over the years, ... | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Unless there's something I'm unaware of, you're not going to be able to use WMA in anything but a Windows environment. Of course, if you buy one of the new dual core Macs that runs Bootcamp, you can get around that problem. However, then the "inex... | |
| What equipment or event thrust you into the hobby? I was 16 and I had a good friend whose family had more dosposable income than ours. When I walked into his bed room he had a system with KLH speakers, a Fisher tubed integrated amp, and an AR turntable playing. My first exposure to a half way dece... | |
| Looking for compilation suggestions A really good ongoing contemporary complilation is "Paste" music magazine. Every month you get a cd of music samples from some of the artists featured in the magazine. I've been turned on to some good stuff through them. | |
| Anything better than Magnepan 1.6? "Better" is certainly subjective, but in many parameters the 1.6's can be bettered for $3k. Whether those parameters outweigh the many strengths and well rounded performance of the Maggies only you can decide. Like you, I had Maggie SMG's for year... | |
| Best sounding VINYL labels? Sorry I didn't read your query closely enough regarding reissues. I've been very curious about Warner Brothers reissue program, they sound as if they are serious about having a quality product. Music direct has the first batch available for purcha... | |
| Best sounding VINYL labels? I see you mention in your "system" you like jazz. I've yet to find a release on the ECM label that disappoints. It's a pity they no longer release vinyl. Any time I go into a used record store, their offerings are one the primary things I look for... | |
| Live Earth 7/7/07 gentlemen start your tivo Audiotomb brings up an aspect of the push for environmental awareness that drives me crazy too. His example of efficient vs. inefficient ethanol production is spot on. Everyone is clamoring so hard for economic advantage and a share of the pork pi... | |
| Best Preamp/Amp Combo for Maggie 1.6QR's? With all due respect, my long experience owning Maggie 1.6's was different from Mrtennis' in that I do find the 1.6's rather attenuated in the high frequencies. (Yes, I've had my hearing checked, it's excellent.) Admittedly, everything is relative... | |
| Does digital mastering/remastering "ruin" LP's? After my initial response, your query really got me thinking about this and I went over to Audioasylum's "vinyl" section and searched "digital mastering." There's a lot of interesting reading and opinions there on the subject. One thing I hadn't t... | |
| Does digital mastering/remastering "ruin" LP's? IMO only those possesed of misplaced values would ever eschew music because of digital sourcing in the recording process. The music is the foremost reason to buy a performance! I've got numerous classical lp's sourced from digital recordings and I... |