shadorne
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| It's Hammond B3 Organ Day BTW - I can confirm, live Santana band was a lot better than on CD's - simply put in a live performance they didn't compress the hell out of the drums and backing musicians and jack up the guitar like they do on the CD's.Dennis Chambers on drums w... | |
| static/electrical interference sounds from speaker Ground loop or more likely failed component.Check you have a proper ground (no cheater plugs)and try plugging everything into the same recepticle (OPPO 983 and Amp) - use a power bar if necessary. If that does not cure it then one of the power sup... | |
| An Audiophile's journey An active speaker may work well with the proprietary internal amp but is even more dependent on the specific amp designed for it. Rwwear,I agree with you entirely.However, my point was that the speaker is designed, built, tested and specified wit... | |
| Power problems.... Ground, dedicated lines, ect For example, the lights dim when the air conditioner comes on. That is quite normal. As you draw more current the voltage tends to drop - often the current draw when an AC starts up is very high - your lights should not remain dim but the slighte... | |
| So whats your favorite music themed movie? Lightning in a BottleLouis Primas efforts on Disney's Jungle BookToy StoryLion King (Elton John's efforts)The CommitmentsPBS documentary on Atlantic PBS The BluesFlash Gordon and Highlander (Queen)Star Wars (original trilogy) - classic themed musi... | |
| An Audiophile's journey I want an amp that is not speaker dependent. Impossible. However you can make a speaker pretty much independent of amplification by making it "active". In this case, the speaker includes the amp in the design process. This type design will playba... | |
| The eternal quandary How does that, er, sound? B.R. once said, "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." This kind of sums it up for audiophiles desacribing the sound from their systems. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Fear not... till Burnham Wood doth come to Dunsinane...More seriously...if this thread keeps going...how long will it be before the complete works of Shaespeare are typed? | |
| Best sounding Krell ? Steve,LOL. Yes - glad you get the picture! It does me good not to be taken too seriously. More seriously - is it true that the Krell do not use Op-amps? Wow that is some serious cost - most line level devices (pre-amps and input stages of power am... | |
| Confessions Simply Red.....I am so embarrassed! Good thing that when my system reach its final stages of refinement, these CDs were unlistenable for such compression! Huh? Picture Book is a very well recorded album - so they can't be all bad. | |
| Jazz Piano Trio / Spanish Guitar Good suggestions - here are a couple more pianists of high calibre...Dave Grusin - Homage to Duke - very nice classic Duke Elllington stuff - very melodic. Not your pretty Jazz trio stuff but more meaty material.Dave Brubeck Guitar ;-Gipsy Kings i... | |
| Best sounding Krell ? Perhaps when the ears are used instead of the eyes, the secrets of the KRELL can truly be realized. "But the Krell forgot one thing! Monsters! Monsters from the id!" Subconscious minds acting out their darkest urges, fueled by the machine's power... | |
| The eternal quandary I am thinking of passages in string quartets by say Schnittke or Shostakovitch. Indeed!! Russian composers are some of my very favorites - it is different from Bach, Vivaldi or Handel (dishwashing music to me - of course that is personal taste as... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Based on your last post you need acoustic treatment bigtime - if you can't aesthetically treat a highly reflective space then don't throw good money after bad with expensive cables, IMHO. You simply won't be able to re-create that great sound in t... | |
| Dynaudio Cont.S5.4, Vienna A.Strauss or La Folia In your list - Dynaudio would be my preference by far. You should also look into PMC speakers - like ATC they are very dynamic but are tonally less forward in the mids and could be just what you are looking for. |