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speakers/sub
'I don't feel right recommending a specific one as I have limited experience with them.'Then why make the recommendation at all. Those names throw you for a loop?? NAD & Harman Kardon :) 
Mini Maggie System hurts to listen to
Get the Polk Lsi15. They have never been accused of clogging ears. 
The Evolution of Modern Jazz
There would have been no need to 'name' Jazz in New Orlean 'dixieland' or anything else, if, some other music in some later time and place had not been 'named' a different type JAZZ. Then we have to be able to differentiate. It would be interestin... 
The Evolution of Modern Jazz
'Smooth Jazz' is not Jazz. Louis Armstrong said: If you can't dance to it, it ain't jazz. So we know where this leaves the free jazz, smooth jazz and avant-garde 'jazz'. Jazz was started in New Orleans whore houses lets not forget that. Its that k... 
Originals vs. reissues/current issues
do you listen to music, or the gear? 
lp grunge
10-12-11: SebrofYou forgot #4: Frustration because a guy asks how to clean a record and someone jumps in and says how much better CDs are. Pointless, not helpful, picking a fight.Guilty as accused. However, I reserve the right to ignore the 'code ... 
lp grunge
please say that 'elitist gasbags' quip was not meant for me hahahhahahahah I like that, i'll remember to use it. 
lp grunge
I was speaking in a Southern context as to the 'upbringing'. Down here, either you had a proper upbringing or you didn't have one. My bad.I do have 700 lps, most played just once, taped the first time. On thorens and sme and blackwidow and shure. ... 
lp grunge
'hi-'fi' is a short way of writing High Fidelity. High Fidelity means 'a high degree of faithfulness or accuracy to the original. The original for our purposes is the source, i.e. the cd or lp. I am just pointing out the obvious, that a stereo sys... 
lp grunge
all LPs are useless as sources of hi-fi. Go cd and the 'problem' is solved. of course CDs take all the fun away. All the tinkering and fussing about. 
My audiophile take on the symphony last night.
Live, is the local high school band at the friday night football game. out of time and out of tune maybe, but no, NO, system in existence can sound like it. Thats LIVE! 
My audiophile take on the symphony last night.
Live, is the local high school band at the friday night football game. out of time and out of tune maybe, but no, NO, system in existence can sound like it. Thats LIVE! 
Steve Jobs we will miss you
I type in english, but you people don't seem to receive english. Everything I post on this site is misunderstood. A sure sign of closed one track minds. 
Steve Jobs we will miss you
Well, the vast majority of you still listen to turntables and LPs and tube amps. you have rejected digital music devices and solid state power. Jobs was a visionary. I am sure he considered tubes outdated tech. Now if his iphones and computers and... 
Steve Jobs we will miss you
Steve Jobs stood for things that 99% of the people on this site detest, so stop it all the fake outpourings.