rcprince
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| 'they blew'em off the stage' Ncarv, I agree with you, of the two of us my wife was the one who preferred the Commander. Also, I think CC was a local favorite in Ann Arbor at the time, might have had something to do with it. Me, I was mezmerized by the late Clarence White's gu... | |
| 'they blew'em off the stage' Years ago, at a concert in Ann Arbor, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen upstaged (in my wife's mind, not mine, though it was close) the Byrds (in their Sweetheart of the Rodeo days). And I remember an old Wolman Rink Schaeffer concert wher... | |
| Jadis amplifiers: rolled off treble? I owned Jadis JA-80s for many years. Yes, I beleieve that they rolled off in the highs a little (this was the old, 1990 version, and I used Philips 6550s and Gold Lion KT 88s in them with Telefunken phase splitter and driver tubes), but I didn't c... | |
| Fire place vs. audiophile.... I have a functioning fireplace between my speakers that juts out a little, but the listening room is our living room in a 122 year-old Victorian, so I deal with it by bringing out the speakers a bit and moving plants in front of the fireplace to c... | |
| Lamm LL2 preamp VS First Sound 4.0 MKII preamp Can't comment on the ML-2, but I have used the LL2 with my ML 1.1s while my Jadis was in the shop. Excellent combination, though a little richer than neutral in the bass. The Lamm has dual volume controls, by the way, though I can't recall if they... | |
| Neville Marriner & ASMF touring Heard them (both conductor and orchestra) at Carnegie last year, a terrific experience. I'd highly recommend going to their concerts if they come into your area. | |
| White Album, when's your last listen? I listened to it the other night (I was recording the vinyl onto my music server to make a copy for a friend). I have to agree with Philjolet, I thought in particular most of side 2 of the second record was pretty much below the Beatles' standards... | |
| Harmonix HS-101 GP anyone else tried these? Relaxed is a good description. In my auditions at my dealer's I felt they were a little too warm and lacking a little in dynamics, but they certainly made for pleasant listening. Ultimately, though, they were too warm for me--sometimes music isn't... | |
| Krell KSA 100 vs KST 100 As between the two amps you mention,the KSA is a superior amp by far--my recollection is that the KST was the inexpensive Claa AB amp they came out with to be more user friendly, but not in the same league as their KSA Class A biased amps. The KSA... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... On DG, I will chime in (as I always do) that I believe that a DG recording generally is not produced with the goal of accurately portraying a musical event (i.e., a concert performance), but rather the music itself--they are, and admit that they a... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... I would probably add the Cozart-Fine and Mohr-Layton teams from the 50-60's Mercury and RCA recordings among your recording engineers. The latter's recordings sometimes come across a little bright or hi-fi to me, but for the most part their record... | |
| Walker HDL in bi-wiring set up. Woofer or tweeter? I had a tri-wire setup with the HDLs. While they do affect all frequencies, I found the most noticeable (and measurable) improvement was in the high frequencies, so I agree with Rush, I would start with the tweeter. | |
| Sony scd-1 vs Ayre C5xe I had a modified 777ES, with Kern mods on the transport board, Superclock 2 and high quality resistors and a Jerry Ozment designed tubed/transformer coupled output stage (essentially the analog section of my Audio Logic DAC). The sound was, to my ... | |
| preamp for dartzeel amp? The preamp section on the DCC2SE is, as Dennis the Menace says, quite good, but having used it for a while while my Jadis preamp is in the shop I have found that it lacks the dynamics, bloom and spaciousness of a great tubed preamp (like a Jadis).... | |
| Second failure of new amplifier Undertow: While your analysis would normally be correct on the above facts, the poster had an earlier thread where he said that he had used the amp for a week with no problems with the stock tubes, then decided to tube-roll and started having the ... |