photon46
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| Any opinions on PS Audio Power Plants Yes, Alephman, I experienced similar audiophilic euphoria after installing a P300. However, the one thing I don't like about is the fan noise! I buried mine behind my Billy Bag's rack and that quited it down a bit, but it still is noisier than I'd... | |
| Flattening warped lp's with Seal dry mount press Nsgarch, yeah I know the sandwich thing uses materials that may be difficult to obtain for some. My job developing and photographing Fine Art sculpture editions gives me easy access to many materials. Plus it encourages my propensity for overly el... | |
| Flattening warped lp's with Seal dry mount press Ok, round two in the saga, much better results this time. Thanks to all for the input and suggestions. Nsgarch, I thought your ideas about the possible problems with acrylic warranted removing it for this experiment. I also thought that if the lp ... | |
| Why Lots of Current Music Sounds Miserable... Onhwy61, you raise a point that I has amused me too: are we becoming our parents as we piss & moan about current music being crap? Mark Twain (I believe it was) said 90% of all art is crap. It was true in the early days of rock & it's true... | |
| Why Lots of Current Music Sounds Miserable... Hmm, let me play the devils' advocate here. Maybe we're being myopic, not seeing the bigger picture. We at Audiogon are concerned with sound quality issues whereas I think the general music consuming public is caring less and less about such thing... | |
| Indian Sitar Stuff Quadophile, I'm in total agreement with your enthusiasm for Shiv Kumar Sharma's Santoor playing. It's wonderful, sublime music. I've got half a dozen of his cd's and they are all winners. Musicslug is giving good advice. The long, slow, quiet buil... | |
| Indian Sitar Stuff Back again, a couple more things. Another Sitar artist worth checking out is Collin Walcott, who recorded for ECM back in the 80's. I found a couple of his lp's at my local music store and they are worthwhile listening. Sitar jazz if you will. Thi... | |
| Indian Sitar Stuff If you enjoy Indian classical sitar music, expand your musical horizon slightly to include an instrument called the Sarod. It's a good sized lute like instrument with a most interesting timbre. Some astounding virtuosos play the Sarod, Ali Akbar K... | |
| Magnapan 1.6 and 65 inch tv Count me in on a similar setup with 1.6's and gear in the middle. Like Cmo says, you get better results if you can pull the speakers in front of the tv or other gear. Maggies throw a big soundstage and I haven't found having gear in the midle caus... | |
| How do you 'listen' to new music? Just like Siliab says, music is a language, and we have to learn the syntax and structure of a new language to become comfortable with it. I was lucky, my mom was a classical musician and I was exposed to it from day one. (Of course, her elitist d... | |
| Dire Straits "Making Movies" on Simply Vinyl Thanks to all for your responses. I'll pick it up up today. Will | |
| Help me pick a digital cable Nick, I'm sure there are many good choices to be had that I've not heard, but my research into cables at this price point led me to the Stereovox digital cable. All the reviews portrayed this as a cable with a stellar price/performance ratio. I ha... | |
| ps audio powerplant benefits If you go to the website high-endaudio.com and click on "recommended components" and then click "accessories," you will find a brief but useful analysis of the relative strengths of the Powerplants and their possible weaknesses. The author's opini... | |
| anyone heard of John Nitzinger? There is a mint 3 lp set of Nitzinger's work for sale on Ebay for $20.00 now. One problem, the seller is in Sweden, so big $$ for shipping possibly. | |
| HELP Turning off the Left Brain Musicfirst, Johnrob offers good advice. Mindfulness meditation is capable, with diligent practice, of helping you turn of your incessant left brain chatter. It's the hardest thing I have done, but it pays great dividends. The other thing you might... |