rcprince
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| What's your profession? Age? Mezmo, with the salaries and bonuses we've been paying you young whippersnappers, I can't believe you are a poor stepchild :>)!! I'd think your main problem would be having any time to enjoy your system, given your profession. | |
| How Do You Decide What to Listen To? Nice thread, Onhwy61. Except in the case where I've just bought something and want to hear it, I almost always choose by my mood, which is often influenced by a recent concert I've been to or a recording I heard on the radio coming home that night... | |
| Anybody happy with high power Krell? 1953, you and me both wish we'd never sold those KSA 50 amps! That was my first high-end amp, and easily the sweetest amp Krell ever made, as well as a powerhouse belying its power rating. I agree with you that certain of their older amps (the KSA... | |
| Planning audio audition trip to NY/NJ, vendors??? By the way, don't jump into the car till next week, many of these folks are out at CES. | |
| Planning audio audition trip to NY/NJ, vendors??? I'd second the above two suggestions. The Red Rose stuff has always impressed me as being what this hobby should be about. Another place with good equipment and nice folks in Upper Montclair, NJ is CSA Audio, 973-744-0600, 193 Bellvue Avenue. Mike... | |
| 24/96 question The Classic Records, Chesky and Water Lily Acoustics DADs; excellent but, unfortunately, not enough of them. Don't know if any DVDs take advantage of 24/96 sound, perhaps the other posters here know that. It's a good format; I could take it as wel... | |
| 24/96 question KP: Love the name (I was in a folk group back in the 60's called Piglet's Revenge!). There are a lot of prior posts on this subject which you should check in the archives, but there are a lot of players now from Pioneer, Marantz (for example, my D... | |
| Will people buy Snake Oil? Hey, a weekend has come and gone. Is the Mk III version out yet? | |
| Below 20 HZ Notes/Instruments I agree with you that if you really have to subwoof the SC Vs (and I don't really think you should unless you're willing to put up with the garbage that's down there as well as the rest and have a strong back to move the damned things around), the... | |
| Below 20 HZ Notes/Instruments TAS had a chart in past issues going through the instruments in the orchestra and their frequency ranges. Other than an organ with 32 foot stops, and synthesizers, I don't think any instrument goes below 20 hz in its fundamental pitch (double bass... | |
| Active?? mix brands My understanding of Linn's "Active" concept (and I could be wrong, so those of you with Linn speak up!) is that essentially the amplifiers are bandwidth-restricted, thereby replacing the crossovers in the speaker cabinet by supplying each driver i... | |
| Organ.. Marakanetz is correct in that no recording I've heard will be able to approach the power of the instrument in real life. The best commercial recordings I've heard of organs are the old Mercury recording of Dupre in St. Thomas Church playing the Wi... | |
| Pros / Cons of Vacuum Option - Basis Debut V I agree with Gthrush1. I recently had my Ovation given the Debut platter/bearing/vacuum upgrade, and it is very much worth it. Playing records with my old Basis clamp and without the vacuum is not nearly as good as with the vacuum--the background ... | |
| Which speakers do the hologram thing? Sugarbrie's right about the room and electronics playing a big part. If those are right, the best I've heard at disappearing are the Pipedreams, the Avalons, the Audio Physics, the mbl 101s and my speakers (Sforzando JL-1s, not currently marketed)... | |
| Any audio gifts for Christmas? My wife was kind enough to get me a Graham IC-70 phono cable (still being made as we speak) to replace my IC-30. And a good bit of software too (including those albums I got from you, Sdcampbell). And I got her a boombox (hope no audiophile saw me... |