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| Upgrading to Tube; Amp or Preamp Another vote for the tube pre first. I think you'll be extremly happy with the upgrade. I also went the tube amp route, later, and was even happier. Obviously, the care and feeding of a tube amp is much higher - something to think about. I love my... | |
| Best speaker under $500 Epos Es 11's, or ES 12's if your room is fairly small. Several steps up the ladder from the B&W's, IMO, but more expensive too. 400-500 used, plus stands. Superb midrange. | |
| Important Info for Meadowlark Owners I've owned the kestral hotrods since december and believe just like any other speaker out there you have to work to get the best out of them. When standing the kestrals certainly sound different to me, though I don't believe the sound is better. T... | |
| Better adapter for portable CD players? headroom.com sells the staightwire in lenghts of .5 and 1.0 meter mini to rca (20-25$)and are better than the radioshack stuff. They may be able to make longer lengths- give them a call. | |
| Most annoying Stereo magazine claim How about the truly nauseating "yin" v. "yang" comparisons that some reviewers pass off as valuable ? | |
| Antique Sound Labs Headphone Amp Jim, if your system is tube based, as mine is, maybe you should consider a non-tube headphone setup as an alernative?My Audible Illusion,CJ,meadowlark system, sounds great but is far from neutral. My headphone system a Grado RA-1,sR 80, panasonic ... | |
| Best Cool Jazz Record At the beach this weekend, Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments" came forth from the boombox. While the rest of "Blues and the Abtract Truth" veers back into bop, this has to be one of the coolest jazz tunes ever recorded. PS, so nice not to give a dam... | |
| Woodworkers ? Well, looks like the blending pencil is not the way to go, the scatch just isn't that deep. I think the Old english with a cherry tint to it will do the trick. As stated above I just want to camoflage the scatch and have no trust in my skills to u... | |
| Woodworkers ? WOW ! What an amazing range of responses. I picked up a minwax blend pencil at lunch and am going to give that a try. Fortunately, I have two scatches, one on the underside of the speaker and one on top. I'll experiment with the one on the bottom ... | |
| Woodworkers ? Thanks guys, but right now I'll try all non-sanding technigues first, I really don't trust my, ahem, skills - tearing down a wall maybe, but the delicate stuff I'll leave to others. BTW did someone mention "english leather" up there? You pulling m... | |
| Best acoustical guitar - any type music sorry, should be "toninho" above. | |
| Best acoustical guitar - any type music Off the top of my head.......Toniho Horta, "Durango Kid II", brilliant brazillian player with vocalsKelly Joe Phelps, "Shined Eyed Mr. Zen" a great slide player - not playing slide on this disk.Ani Difranco, "Revelling\Reckoning" (the new one), sh... | |
| System sounds different, depending... gunbei, here's a cheap test. by a portable headphone system - battery powered cd/amp + good headphone. this takes all those power variables out of the equation. listen. if that sounds great/crappy/ok/etc.. over consecutive listenings then you eith... | |
| Trelja in New York Drubin,I was there Sunday afternoon, was the Dodson in the rack? I found in the rooms I liked, I looked less, and listened more, so its possible I missed it. If it was, then the sound of the Sony/Dodson was very,very close to the Sony on SACD. May... | |
| Trelja in New York Thanks Trelja, I was going to limit myself to positive reviews but your post has persuaded my otherwise.Big disappointments: the nagra/eggelston room. I listened for a while when they were playing some Ellington on their open reel, something was r... |