rockvirgo
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| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? Musicians aren't good or bad, they're sucessful and unsucessful.Jazz improvisation is exotic. Its appreciation is an acquired taste.Smooth jazz gets no respect because it is boring. | |
| How do you buy music? When I traveled for work I'd find the local CD shops and check out their selections. It's cool to have a place to go when you're far from home. Most times I carried away some treasure, five or ten at a time.Nowadays I keep up a collection of the E... | |
| Theta Gen VI? Nope, Gen VIII - UPDATE In Theta's defense, they appear to have a company policy about charging for research. Maybe if they'd used the serial number date coding some companies do that job would be easier for them.On the bright side, I bought a used Theta transport over t... | |
| Modified equipment... Leave it stock. While they're may be a plethora of great mods out there, if you intend to resell later, trying to explain the mods to someone unfamiliar with them is imho a pretty big turn off. Individual components are voiced to work as an system... | |
| Speaker efficiency vs. power requirements Power ratio??? Never heard of it. What is it?It appears the flaw in your reasoning is that speakers rated at 90dB can and often do play at much lower levels. By definition a person can hear any level of signal above the noise floor. Consequently t... | |
| CAL Delta or Theta Data II as transport? Get a Theta Data Basic II and never look back. After using a Nakamichi CD Player 2 musicbank for years as a transport, the first thing I noticed with the Theta DBII was a seamless integration of freqency shifts. More musical all the way around. | |
| Any help on Threshold s550e amp? A couple of years ago I upgraded from a S/300 series II to a S/350e. The S/350e idles hotter than the S/300. The reson: the e series amps operate at a higher bias than their previous interations in the S series. Here's a tidbit from the e line man... | |
| Walking that fine line: What would you do ? It sounds like you took a step towards analytical because that's what you describe yourself doing. I got back to musical by changing speakers (smoother) and preamp (purer). Enjoy the ride! | |
| How much money do you want to waste? i'm not real sure but i believe the purpose of coils is to create and collapse magnetic fields and is not to carry signals per se.as far as cables, or for that matter, any other hardware go, the whole stereo trip is about looks and hype. you find ... | |
| equipment sound bad? Accuracy is a blind alley. You wind up with an annoying 'hey listen to that!' trick pony. Go for the emotional content. | |
| To turn off or not to turn off Leave the solid state stuff on and no worries. | |
| Oh, crap. just curious ohlala, but it sounds like you paid the cc company before you got the 'table. did you? sorry to hear you're running into this scam. the usual con is to offer great deals in exchange for customer checks for goods that never get sent an... | |
| Question on transducer excursion Interesting issues... an arm connected to a voice coil based transducer sounds alot like the definition of a phonograph playback system. Vinyl aside, I'd say that from rest the excursion distance is non-linear with applied energy. Designers seem t... | |
| Under speaker metal SPIKES ...what is the point ? Also bear in mind that the limited surface area at the tips of the spikes presents little surface area for the vibrations from the floor to travel up into the speaker cabinets or stands. The broader the surface area exposed to the floor the more l... | |
| Advice on how to get FedEx to pay up on damage Dear Jab: Try to get out more. You'll find several interesting and varied individuals here in America and elsewhere. |