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| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl "until I begin hearing pops, clicks, surface noise"Surely this is not 'breaking news' I got out of vinyl as soon as the first CD players appeared. What took you so long? | |
| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? Comtemporary in a musical sense could be defined as 'an imitation of the original. All things go through natural trajectories. Right now technology and medicine etc... are going up at an amazing speed, while music, literature, social cohesion and ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? Digepix:Thank You. | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? what are the sonic indications of caps gone bad? I have a yamaha M60 power amp from around 1978, I might dust it off and put it back in service. It would be my most powerful amp. | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer oh yes. Those big leg wimens. I have almost as many blues a classical CDs. I was not sure they would be around forever, but the ease of remastering and reissuing CDs makes them likely to be with us forever. | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer "lust"The blues speaking about LUST? Surely you Jest! :) | |
| Do You Love Music or Do You Love Hi-Fi? It seems as if most Classical SACD are from smaller labels and lesser known orchestras. Don't know if that is 100% true, but it seems that way. There are a few exceptions. | |
| Have digital players improved It's a common high-end condition. If the rest of the world still preferred vinyl, every high end system here would be 100% digital. And CDs would cost 100 dollars each. And be very hard to find. The main thing is to be different, exclusive, to be ... | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer I hope you never go to Mississippi and say that. :) | |
| Do You Love Music or Do You Love Hi-Fi? I agree with you. On a similar topic, why can't all new releases be SACD hybrid disc. Esp classical. Is the process much more difficult or expensive? | |
| vibration control the question concerned vibrating caps and resistors. You are changing the subject in mid-discussion. | |
| vibration control The issue is the SOUND that reaches your ears. Vibration control can be crucial in other endeavors, but we are talking about SOUND produced from a loud speaker. How much vibration, if any, can there be in a stereo amp. And if there is virbration, ... | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer BTW, I disagree that the delta blues is a subset. It is the original, the source therefore it cannot be a subset. All that it spawned can be called subsets. The Delta blues is just the blues. Texas / louisiana ,Chicago, The Carolinas may be called... | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer There are a few greats scattered around the south, including Bessie who I think is fron TN. I have three of her boxed sets. Great stuff, but very poor recordings. That is the sad part, the music was great before the technology was. I use the word ... | |
| Is the Polk LSiM707 as good as the reviewes? The Tone review is encouraging. |