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| What's your favorite album cover art ? The LP cover for "Undercurrent", with Bill Evans and Jim Hall, is very elegant and sexy... | |
| best used speaker for around 2500? If you want an excellent full-range speaker, the Vandersteen 3A Signatures can be acquired for around $2500 on the used market. Even at MSRP, Vandy 3A and 3A Sig's are an excellent value, but at used prices there are very few speakers that compare... | |
| Adcom 2535 Amp for HT. Any instructions or help? The Adcom 2535 was essentially two of the 535 power amps on one chassis, which means that it could drive two pairs of speakers (left and right front; and left and right rear), or you could bridge the "B" amp for use with a subwoofer or center chan... | |
| Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps Some of my favorites have already been mentioned above, but here are some of the preamps and amps I like best, followed by those I don't much care for:Best looking preamp/power amp combos from same manufacturer:1. Hovland (HP-100 pre and Hovland S... | |
| Coolest looking speaker ever ? FYI: The Calix Signature Phoenix Grands are made in Taiwan and sell for a cool $60k. Go figure....(see my post on "ugliest speaker ever" above). | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? No one has nominated the Wilson Audio X-1 Grand Salamis...any thoughts on this speaker? | |
| what will make the greatest differance in sound. If you are planning to keep your Martin-Logan speakers (which are excellent), I think the place to start making changes is your preamp. After the speakers (which are transducers, and therefore the most subject to variations in sound between variou... | |
| Carmina Burana: what's your favorite recording? I have several versions of Carmina, but the one I like best is the one recorded on Telarc. It has a very good performance, combined with excellent sound. I'm sure there are other very worthy renditions, but the Telarc version is the one that usual... | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? Ejlif: I sense a theme here after seeing your post nominating the Avantgarde Trio Classico as the "coolest speaker ever". As I said in my comments starting this thread, one guy's "cool" is another guy's "ugly", which is maybe a good thing given so... | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? I was just thinking some more about the Royd speaker line. What an opportunity for them to develop an advertising campaign conducted by the guys who do the milk ads. Can you hear it now: "Got Royds?" | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? I've got to add a couple of additional speakers to my list, even if I did start this thread:1. the Cabasse "eyeballs" (I wouldn't be able able to concentrate on the music for feeling watched); 2. the MBL Radialstrahlers (interesting, but still ugl... | |
| Coolest looking speaker ever ? Well, one's guy's "cool" may be another guy's "ugly" (see the thread I just posted looking for nominees for "ugliest speaker"), and there are a couple of speakers in the list above that would be among my lead candidates for an "ugly" award. To me,... | |
| Difference between 24/96 and 24/192 The only way to really answer your question is to do a direct comparison audition of both units. While the 24/192 offers a theoretical advantage over 24/96 due to the greater data rate, that is only part of the performance equation in a CD player.... | |
| entry level power solutions The other "standard" recommendations, in addition to the ones Sean made, are to replace your wall plugs with hospital grade units (I didn't find this made much difference in my system, but other people swear by them), and using a line conditioner ... | |
| Recommended CD of Cuban music Yes, the CD that I mentioned above, "Introducing Ruben Gonzalez", was recorded at Egrem Studios. |