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May 14, 2003	Krell....what is the difference in the ....... Actually, I'm going to have to miss the meeting, I've got tickets to the NJSO Beethoven 9th that afternoon! Recorded can't compete with the real thing, you know. I hope you enjoy the VPI presentation.
May 13, 2003	Krell....what is the difference in the ....... The old KSA appelation was for the stereo amps, with KMA being the monoblock versions. Those were generally their top models, apart from the reference series and Audio Standard models; now those are called FPB, for Full Power Balanced. The KST ver...
May 12, 2003	Full range box floorstanding recommend $3-5K range Mike--The joke is Nrchy's disclaimer in the first line of his post, of course.
May 12, 2003	Classical Music as Relics for easy listening To get more recent classical compositions you need to go to live concerts with an orchestra willing to play these pieces. In NJ, we've been fortunate to have new music played at most concerts by the NJSO, and the Colonial Symphony in Morristown ha...
May 12, 2003	Full range box floorstanding recommend $3-5K range In that range there are a lot of good choices for you to consider, and I'm sure you'll get a lot of responses. If you have the room for them, I'd suggest Dunlavy SC-IVAs; I think they'd work well with your amplification and they are excellent, ful...
May 09, 2003	How many AudiogoNers are amateur chefs? Having just drained my home's equity into a new kitchen, I have shocked my wife by telling her I want to learn how to cook more than hot dogs and steak, so at some point soon I'll be an amateur chef as well.
May 09, 2003	Yet another SACD question My understanding at present is that all multichannel SACDs also have a two-channel SACD stereo mix layer that plays conventional stereo; I don't know how you get a multi-channel player to play that layer, but I'm sure it can be done.
May 07, 2003	Money no object,,,,which speakers would you own??? Looks--Sonus Faber Amati Homage; I'm sure these must sound great too, but I've never heard them sound good, due to poor dealer setup.Sound--Like Meech 33, Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams; when properly set up they have the soundstaging, bass extens...
May 07, 2003	Has anybody else tried LITZ wire for speakers? I know that Audio Research used to, and maybe still does, sell a litz-based speaker cable. My speaker cables are made by a company called K-Works, a small one-man shop who's a member of our audio society here in NJ, and they too are a litz wire ba...
May 07, 2003	ARC LS-5 vs SP-10/11 for Plinius SA-102 tgm: Don't fall in the "newer is better" trap that the manufacturers and mags would like you to believe. My Jadis preamp is from 1995, my Jadis amps from 1990 and I'd stack them up against anything out there. While there have been improvements in ...
May 07, 2003	SACD - what gives? Definitely try the Vaughn Williams Sea Symphony (I'd have preferred a different VW symphony, although this one is growing on me) with the Atlanta Symphony and chorus conducted by Spano, whose work I like a lot and who I wish was available for our ...
May 07, 2003	ARC LS-5 vs SP-10/11 for Plinius SA-102 Having heard all three in familiar circumstances, I think the LS-5 would be my choice, given that you don't need a phono section. The LS-5 seems to my ears to balance the glorious classic tube sound of the SP-10 with the accuracy of the cooler, mo...
May 07, 2003	SACD - what gives? Agree, Detlof, you're always welcome here as well, it's not that long a flight (although there are many things I prefer about your side of the pond). The Audio Logic DAC also changes the pcm signal to DSD, that's why I like it so much. At some poi...
May 06, 2003	SACD - what gives? Eldartford is pretty much right, but part of the problem also is that some of those master tapes weren't so great to begin with, particularly with some labels who seemed to like to put mikes in musicians' laps or which had producers who wanted a "...
May 06, 2003	SACD - what gives? I join Mgottlieb and Tbone and the few others in the minority here who are still enthused about SACD. I find little of the high frequency problems Detlof has found, although I would have to say my system cannot be as revealing in that area as his ...