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| Best Louis Armstrong LP to Start With? On CD (SACD in some cases): 1. The Great Summit: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington2. Satch Plays Fats (Waller) 3. Louis Armstrong Plays W.C Handy. 4. Ella and Louis ... get the 2 cd, 2003 Verve set5. Complete Hot 5 and Hot 7 box set.Regards, Rich | |
| Best Louis Armstrong LP to Start With? If you are talking vinyl ... try The Great Summit: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Two other excellent albums are Satch Plays Fats (Waller) and Louis Armstrong Plays W.C Handy. Regards, Rich | |
| Jolida JD707A vs. MF A3.5 or Creek 5350SE You are comparing apples and oranges by comparing tubes and solid state amplifiers. You very much like the Jolida/ Titus combo ... why change it? Since I changed from solid state amps to tubes, I have gotten hooked on tubes. I don't find myself te... | |
| Monitor users, isolation? Tom:Depending on where and how you live, you may need to decouple the speaker from its environment. Coupling a speaker to a floor doesn't make sense in an apartment setting as all that you have done is provide a larger area to disperse the vibrati... | |
| Monitor users, isolation? My monitors are usually shelf mounted. I place a 1/2 inch bamboo cutting board on top of the shelf and a thin layer of cork on top of that and then the speaker on top of that. Eats up vibrations very well (lots of truck and bus traffic in Queens).... | |
| Rega Brio, Apollo, and R3? The Rega combination will work out very well. I am using the Rega Apollo, Rega Ara (now the R1) and a Prima Luna Prologue 2 integrated tube amp (oops)in a room about your size and it is a very enjoyable system to listen to. Another system to consi... | |
| Modify tube amp or upgrade to NOS tubes I would be inclined to go the NOS route for the preamp tubes and current production for the power tubes. I have a Prima Luna Prologue 2 integrated amp and a Prima Luna Prologue 5 power amp. I have gone with NOS for the 12AX7 and 12AU7 (Mullard &am... | |
| Music Hall 25.2 or Jolida 102b? The Prima Lunas are fairly simple tube amps to own. They have an auto adaptive bias circuit, so you will never need to bias the tubes. You may get into tube rolling/ swapping a bit, but that is part of the sound fine tuning that makes tube equipme... | |
| Music Hall 25.2 or Jolida 102b? Marty:Do you want to go with tubes or not for your amplifier? The Prima Luna PL2 & Music Hall 25.2 CD player make for a ridiculously good system. So will the Music Hall combo. You would not go wrong with either. It's just that tubes sound diff... | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Hi Rebbi:Rega quality is there. They design and manufacture their own speaker cones. The woofer in the R1 is used throughout the rest of the line. Plus the enclosure is real wood. I had read in some online review that even the acoustical stuffing ... | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Hi Rebbi:A question to run by the wife ... will these speakers need to be wall or shelf mounted? Often with children and pets, monitors on stands are not always a workable option. If wall or shelf mounting is how it will be, make sure to consider ... | |
| MF 3.5 and Outlaw 2150 The A3 has a dual mono configuration, with a separate power transformer for each power amp, and separate windings for the preamp and remote control. When Fremer reviewed the Outlaw RR2150 for Stereophile, he tried a number of different speakers an... | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please From my own experience, I would look at:Rega R1NHT Classic TwoFrom reading reviews, I would add to the list B&W 685Regards, Rich | |
| MF 3.5 and Outlaw 2150 What is your budget, because the MF is 2 1/2 times the price of the Outlaw? If cost is not an issue, the MF 3.5 is the better pure amp, but you can do a lot more with the Outlaw. A more reasonable comparison for the Outlaw is the NAD C320BEE and I... | |
| Fellow Classic Hard Rock Lovers, I Need Advice Zar:I attempted to match up albums that I felt were similar in style that you could do a comparison against ... it is a battle afterall. Anyway you do it should be fine. One off songs from Heart (Crazy for You) or Scandal (Goodbye to You) are grea... |