shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| If you could just pick one instrument that you think sounds best on your speakers None. Nothing stands out materially. Everything sounds the way I would expect from drums and percussion to full orchestra to a single guitar or vocalist. What you describe may be more of a combined speaker and room effect. Certainly Room modes and... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? Lorin Maazel Shostakovich 5th is a good test CD recorded by Telarc. Especially the last movement. Plenty of dynamics. | |
| Time for a Pre change? Need the wisdom... Get a tube preamp. C-2500 or C-2600. | |
| Your single favorite musician on any given instrument? Bass - FleaGuitar - Mike Campbell, J J CaleDrums - Steve Ferrone, Chad SmithPiano/Keyboards - Elton John, Herbie HancockSaxophone - Maceo ParkerTrombone - ShortyTrumpet - Mic GiletteViolin - Anne Sophie MuterVocals - don’t care for them - vocalist... | |
| Any Mark Knopfler fans out there? Mark Knopfler is not only a talented guitarist but a true creative original artist who tells stories and paints pictures with his music. He also happens to be a bit of a stickler for sound quality.He built the now famous British Grove Studios arou... | |
| Dear Audiogon, @hifiman5 I was just kidding ;-) | |
| Dear Audiogon, I keep seeing ads for tax accountants, personal security guards, private jets, yachts, castles, faberge eggs and private islands for sale. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @uberwaltz Great choices. Brings back memories. Soul Searching was soon after Steve Ferrone joined. Steve was really funky. Saw them on the Person to Person tour around that time. Their fortunes were on the way out as Funk/Soul/disco was dying and... | |
| Krell Owners: Is XLR really superior to RCA? No surprise. The only surprise is how many audiophiles stick with cheap crap RCA and still think of themselves as serious audiophiles.The higher signal level alone on pro audio +24 dBu balanced can be equivalent to about a 13 dB lower noise floor.... | |
| Cover songs that are better than the originals. Led Zeppelin did many great covers.Dazed and ConfusedSince I have been loving you etc.Probably the greatest cover band ever. They improved upon and improvised upon stuff. Jimmy Page and Plant were great at seeing potential in stuff and making it 1... | |
| Metrum Dac owners Just a thought - rather than more resolving perhaps it might simply be that your DAC isn’t as well isolated on the USB as it could be. | |
| Military grade @lowrider57 Exactly. That is why these cables are so special compared to the ordinary cables stressed by F14’s. ;-) | |
| Military grade They are the best! After so many landings of F15 on aircraft carriers they have to change the cables out. The cables are not reliable enough to land anymore F15’s but the good news is the stress from multiple F15 landings has aligned all the molec... | |
| Best all British, except cables, system you heard or can think of. Oops my bad.Remove the digital source and add EAR Disc Master. | |
| Best all British, except cables, system you heard or can think of. DCS Vivaldi stack or Chord Dave + Hugo M-scaler EAR 912 Preamplifier ATC 150ASL but I like many of the suggestions above too! |