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what speaker for rega brio-r
Hard to beat the Rega RS 1 at this price, if acoustic music is your thing, probaly can't .Silverline Minuets are also very good , a little more "rockish" . Any Totem you can find used will please you as well. 
Favorite Verdi's Requiem?
The Telarc performance of Robert Shaw with the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus is very good and with great sound.One of Telarc's best efforts. 
The State of Jazz
Taste level has taken a massive decline since the advent of both TV and Rock. And it was not all that high before that.Also, as you ship every job not nailed down to China, dumber the people are the better . 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
Coming from my perspective, that of a Christian, the best is that which leads you closer to the divine reality in a manner that makes you profoundly grateful that God inspired the great soul who created it ,and that you got to hear it and were lea... 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
Photon,There is nothing good about being a soldier, I used that example only to say we all can relate to things difficult as a basic trait of our humanity. My sole point is that relativism is dry rot of the mind and soul.Some things are better tha... 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
Who knew, I thought God did that. Learn something every day. 
3 speaker cable options - what to choose?
Redline , you (and about 100 others) talked me into buying a pr of Clear Day Double Shotguns w. jumpers. for my 86db TotemModel 1 Signatures.Just received today, about 2 hours in , music no longer comes from the speakers, just there rock solid in ... 
grills or no grills on your speakers..matters?
Wolf-Garcia, I believe my Preludes do better than any other speakers I've owned with grills on. 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
I have, thousands of them.. That's how I found what is best.Special thanks to Cicero, Augustine, Hildegard of Bingen. Julian of Norwich, Luther , Tolstoy ,Kodaly and Andre Previn. 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
Walk before you run?Ain't going to win many races starting from a swamp.Germany, like the USA, has no shortage of ignorant people.If I ask the recovering addict, 8th grade drop-out paintingmy room in WI if he listens to Beethoven the reply likely ... 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
Nope, you want to be uplifted or you don't. 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
You would have to be dead to go to a thousand Classical concerts and not grasp how hard it is for and on a performer.Any human can grasp anything human if they wish to expand the time and effort of mind and heart to do so. As Blake said, "the worl... 
why do hi-end fuses keep blowing, while std don't?
Try biasing them to lowest parameter reccomended. 
Has education expanded your listening tastes?
The greatest of the Romans and one of THE wisest humans who ever lived, Cicero, said;"Not to know what has transpired in former times is to be always a child."Children are easier to control than adults which is why History is both the sine qua non... 
Any good FM tuners around for less than $200?
The best vintage tuner is the one most recently aligned.If you don't want to get it aligned, which for most IS a hassle, don't buy one.