shubertmaniac
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| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green I saw the 1969 Rolling Stones concert with Mick Taylor, itwas the most god awful concert (old Spectrum, Philly). The only redeeming factor was that BB King was the opening act.I saw in England in 1969 the Rolling Stones, they were god awful. The o... | |
| Riddle me this... I think there are many amps out there new and used thatare in the 100 watt range that sound great, that are less than $2500, which translates into around $1500 circa1988. What in 1988 could you get for around $1500...looking into my handy dandy 19... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Captpenny: I agree with you on Mike Bloomfield; you got tohere him with Muddy Waters on the Fathers and Sons albuma true knockout blues album if there ever was one. | |
| What's best CD player one piece price no object Wait. Keith Johnson and the boys at Spectral feel at this time that the chipsets available for SACD or DVD-A are inferior for incorporation into a source component. Forgetabout tubes for a source, their low level resolution will not be on par with... | |
| Time to replace speakers, suggestions wanted If you like the Totems, then try the Forest or the Wind;personally I liked them better than the Aerial 7s. Of coursethe maggie 1.6s would be my first choice. | |
| The Ferrari 288 GTO of ARC Tube Amps Jafox: wasn't the D250 a servo type, as I recollect???If I had the moola, I would like Albert said, take a D79Aand do some serious modern mods. I thought it was THE killerARC amp. I think it has about a jillion joules of energy, itwould drive abou... | |
| The Ferrari 288 GTO of ARC Tube Amps Creme de Creme of ARC amps..hmmmm...D79A or D160, I have not seen either on Audiogon for awhile...in fact I do not think I have ever seen a D160 for sale, rare and a keeper. | |
| Best power for 10,000 DMA- 360 dual mono amplifers from Spectral; used around10K. | |
| Review: Avalon Acoustics Radian Speaker Dear Linkster: Perhaps the Opus and Eidolon are better speakers but I have yet to hear the potential in them that Robert Harley and others have written about. As I said I bought them on a whim, I NEVER heard them anywhere anytime.The person I purc... | |
| Acoustat 2+2...Any users? I have had my Acoustat 2+2s for 17 years; will not give themup for anything. I found it does work with an activepreamp but of extreme high quality either solidstate or tube. Needs tons of power; curently I have a Spectral DMA200pure class A, that ... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green How about Quicksilver Messenger Service's version of Happy Trails??? | |
| OK, best speakers for 2500 USED...... Magnepan MG 3.X, Avalon Avatar, set up properly in a small to mid sizedroom, with the right electronics will beat any of the box speakers above for imaging, soundstage, focus, though probably not bass energy. | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? There are only two complete systems that knocked meout: 1984, at Sassafras Audio, the Acoustat 2+2s withAudio Research SP8 and D115 with VPI HW19(mk1) turntableAudioquest tonearm and the cartridge...I forget.1984, at Chestnut Hill Audio, the Acous... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Unless you have seen Muddy Waters play , which I have, there is nobody, and I mean nobody, who can convey the blues on electric guitar better except and this is a big maybe is BB King. Now if you want to consider acoustic guitar, then maybe Robert... | |
| All time classics? Your top 3 or 4? 1. Spectral DMC-102. ARC SP-33. Avalon Radian4. Magnepan MG-3a5. Spectral DMA-1006. Acoustic Research AR-3a7. Dynaco PAT-48. JBL Hartsfield9. the original Monster speaker cable10. ARC D79aNo particular order, but the ones that had the most initial... |