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| Transport - Dac , matching question. Jkphoto and others:http://www.geocities.com/rjm003.geo/rjmaudio/diy_dac.html | |
| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo Miles Davis,A Tribute to Jack Johnson, the cut Right Off...John McLaughlon's solo | |
| What will you be playing to celebrate? Middle Eastern real politik goes back to before the Old Testamnt. In 50 years,we might know if invading Iraq was a good thing or a bad thing. To answer the thread's question,I suggest piping into the holding cell, "Don't Get Around Much Any More" ... | |
| Where does your user name come from? Yes,I realize a philosophy of pragmatism contradicts itself on its face.I selected it party to show a disregard for any ideology of ideas over the ideas themselves and for a respect of persons like Thomas Dewey and William James. | |
| Recommendation - Complete Beethoven Sonatas Let me confuse the issue by recommending the Pollini along with the Brendel and the Goode. | |
| What is the best tweak? Here's a general answer to a general question. Pull your speakers at least three feet from their rear wall and put bookshelves(with books) or a cloth curtain behind them. Put large potted plants with small leaves at the first reflection points and... | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...RIP Speaking as a fan of the movie,allow me to recommend Maynard Soloman's biography of Mozart.(He also did a Beethoven biography.)The strengh of Soloman's biographies is that English is his native language. Biographies translated from German read lik... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? The bigger Quads fed from McIntosch electronics. That's beyond my means,so I got the Maggie 1.6 s. | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...RIP Newbee,He's also the guy who wrote the melody they used in the MASH finale. -:)and all,(Piano Concerto #21 in C Major;Clarinet Quintet in A Major) | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? I will not criticize(in the larger sense of the term)any symphonies in this post but point out my subjective opinions.Beethoven's best work was his last five string quartets.Mozart's best work was his Vienna era piano concertos.Bach's best work wa... | |
| Ageless Music? I don't know the answer to your final question. My guess is the composers who will be remembered hundreds of years from now include Vincent Persacheti(spelling),Eliot Carter, Igor Stravinsky,and Duke Ellington. | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? The Pastoral(number 6) because it was the first one I was exposed to at an impressionable age. | |
| Which is more important? I lived in a city that had an army base once and the local pawnshops usually had good selections of audio equipment. When someone was transferred out,they sold their stuff that would then get bought by guys(and women) who transferred in. It seems ... | |
| Low-Fi Experience NAD markets(or used to) a receiver/cd player box with a pair of PSB speakers that is not half bad for the money for rooms the size of dorm rooms.I've heard worse. | |
| Best speaker value Let me pile on another recommendation to listen to the Maggie 1.6 qr s. If you find you prefer box speakers,consider the Madisound "Original" Odins at a thousand dollars. I have not heard the Thors but would like to. |