richard_stacy
Responses from richard_stacy
| Best Rock Album in 2012 Synthfreek - Never know who's lurking on these forums! Love your stuff and been a fan for a while. I've got Monster Music, Dead Weight and of course the new record. Really like the direction you have taken, Exit Strategy is a great record. I playe... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 Hiss Golden Messenger "Poor Moon"Ok, technically it's a re-release of a 2010 album but that was limited to 500 vinyl copies. This is one of the most under appreciated "bands" making music. Can't recommend this album enough. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 That Norah Jones album was produced by Danger Mouse and sounds more like a Danger Mouse album than Norah Jones. If you liked Rome or the Broken Bell's stuff, you'll prolly like NJ's new release. I'm actually not a big Norah Jones fan but do like t... | |
| Alt Country/Folk, American roots Two more I have been really enjoying lately, both lean more to the folk side and both are great recordings.Bowerbirds "The Clearing" (Recorded at Justin Vernon's studio and has a bit of his flavor)Anais Mitchell "Young Man In America" (Ironically,... | |
| Alt Country/Folk, American roots A couple that come to mind...Hiss Golden Messenger "Bad Debt"J. Tillman "Vacilando Territory Blues" (Former Fleet Foxes drummer...)Brown Bird "Tautology" ("Salt for Salt" is not bad either)James Vincent McMorrow "Early In The Morning"and of course... | |
| DAC 3-4k range I am very partial to the Berkeley Alpha DAC. I've lived with them for some time now and actually cannot think of anything I'd change about it. I continue to develop my system around it and it just keeps getting better. It also has a great volume c... | |
| Spectral DMA 260 Amp vs. BAT VK 600 SE and...I respectfully disagree with Audiofreakgeek in regards to a preamp. Berkeley recommends running their dac directly to the amps and in most ceases this is going to give you a better outcome. Not in all, but most... | |
| Spectral DMA 260 Amp vs. BAT VK 600 SE It's a great question but unfortunately I doubt you are going to get any truly educated answers. I don't think there are many guys on here that have actually heard the 260 and if they have most likely not in their system. Then...of those guys, how... | |
| speaker cables for Wilson Sophia Unreal. Ok, lets start here...I'm not a scientist therefore do not present science to "back up" my posts nor do I feel it necessary. The requirement of using MIT cables with Spectral amplifiers comes from the designer/manufacturer, Prof Kieth John... | |
| speaker cables for Wilson Sophia Hessec - The $1500 check I wrote to Spectral 2 years ago to rebuild a DMA 180 that oscillated and fried was hilarious. | |
| speaker cables for Wilson Sophia Guys, your uniformed suggestions could guide someone to severely damage their $20,000 amplifiers. Probably best to be certain of that before you go and tell someone It's ok...or "preposterous". With all due respect, it's just not good advice.I do ... | |
| USB cables I use the Acoustic Revive cable that has the separate power line and it sounds pretty damn good. I did not do much of a trial before deciding on it other than the Nordost Blue Heaven and a generic cord which it sounded much better than both. The N... | |
| speaker cables for Wilson Sophia BTW Peter, my speakers are Sasha's also and I think the Spectral/Sasha combination is pretty damn special. Enjoy! | |
| speaker cables for Wilson Sophia Hello Peter - I think you run a real risk using cables other than MIT with those amps (which I think are among the best in the world:)). I use Spectral amps as well (360 at present, DMA 260 coming next week) and have been discussing cables over on... | |
| MIT shotgun MA or MIT Matrix HD38 My experience has been it's typically best to go with the later technology with MIT stuff as well as the higher "poles". In this case, the Matrix are the newest so I would lean that way if it were me. I'd also guess that those two cables are going... |