rockadanny
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| Whats in your second system? In my home office I have a pair of Adam F7 Active Monitors driven by my laptop via an upgraded 3.5-RCA Cable made by Take Five Audio. My intent was to use them to play music softly while working, but they sound so darned good I’ll also use them fo... | |
| What is it that you don't like about your Listening Room ? Thanks Tom. Good ideas. Especially might consider what it might take to have Jim come over. He probably lives not too far from me (I am in Marietta, GA, and I see he has an Atlanta area code). | |
| What is it that you don't like about your Listening Room ? @tomcarr - I already have these treatments:GIK Tri Traps 2 pairs stacked in front corners up to ceilinghttps://systems.audiogon.com/systems/3600#&gid=1&pid=7 GIK 244 Bass Traps at 1st & 2nd sidewall reflectionsGIK Evolution PlyFusors (... | |
| What is it that you don't like about your Listening Room ? I FINALLY have a dedicated room and am REALLY thankful for this. However, although it is a decent size the stupid ceiling is too low. This is in the basement and the ceiling tiles are hung as high as they can go but they are still not quite even 8... | |
| CHASING TRANE Just finished reading "Coltrane on Coltrane" - excellent book of JC interviews and liner notes. Will check out the docu. Thansk for posting! | |
| Greatest rhythm sections McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison...with Coltrane +1 | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. Bluesy/psych rock: All Them Witches - "Our Mother Electricity"Trippy/psych rock: Samsara Blues Experiment - "Long Distance Trip" | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? Not all NOS tubes are expensive. And IME, with the few tube pieces I have, I’ve found that high priced NOS tubes don’t necessarily equate to best performance. As usual with audio gear: it depends. For example, I had an expensive pair of NOS tubes ... | |
| New and searching 4. don't worry about a square room since you have an open floor plan Ugh. I agree with this. Sorry, forgot it was an open floor plan while writing my response. | |
| New and searching Starting out can be overwhelming. While not sexy or fun, if your room has no treatments at all some basic treatments can provide a great return on your investment. I suggest contacting a company (such as GIK Acoustics, for example) and discuss you... | |
| How does the sound of a power tube change, over time? Does this happen with amps which employ auto-biasing? | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. For rock try Mia Dyson - "Parking Lots" and "Struck Down"For blues try Trampled Under Foot - "Badlands" | |
| BAT POLL... BTW, the most famous person to reference the "BAT pole"? Adam West | |
| Most overrated bands Before listening to Los Lobos I read several professional critics saying how brilliant they were. IMO, they are ... meh. So IMO overrated. | |
| What is the ideal volume setting? there should be a "calibration track" provided on the disk so we can set the "preferred listening level" +1 |