shubertmaniac
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| New to tubes-what the heck does NOS mean? NOS, new, old stock. this was originally coined by the car manufacturers, on parts that were new but were over seven years of age. When I was restoring my 1960 Ford Starliner, I replaced most of my chrome with NOS parts rather than reproduction pa... | |
| The Best Amplifier Ever ? HIFI farm can verify: servicing is always an issue. And I believe, if you open the damn thing you void the warranty, thus you would have to ship it overseas and wait for months for repair ,that does not sound like fun to me. That is why I stick to... | |
| Researching an Accordion Music. Please help. I got some great German accordion marsching musicErika......Erika..... | |
| little known musicians we should hear Marsch,Marsch, Ja, Ja....folk music???? link 1,2,3 | |
| little known musicians we should hear Rammstein. | |
| Audio as a hobby Bufus: Actually it is good that you find bewonderment in thedark skies. It is more gratifying than audio many times. What makes amateur astronomy so cool is you just need your eyes, you look up and see the whole milky way. It definitelymakes you f... | |
| Audio as a hobby Surprised:NO amateur astronomersNO Lionel train collectorsNO coin or stamp collectorsNo reenactors civil war or otherwiseNo R/C modelersNo model railroadersNo sailors or sailboat racersNo motorcylcists HD or otherwiseNo antique car collectors or r... | |
| Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs? I picked up Metamorphsis at Borders this afternoon. Popped in my car CD changer, went straight to Going Down. Goosebumps and memories, what a song. The CD itself: they cleared up lots of the grunge( though they keep some in, thank god). Excellent ... | |
| Swan label and the Beatles Borders has a book on the value of collectible 45s, this particular one had a value of $60. the VeeJays about $20. Most of the others of the 1000 45s about 1-4 dollars each. | |
| Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs? Some of your responses seem shrill, but so what. I have most of the 60s and early 70s stuff on vinyl; some of the early early 80s stuff on CD. The one I am most interested in is Metamorphosis. A compilation of their studio stuff that did not make ... | |
| The Hives:Real Deal or just a tease??? The White Stripes sound like the proto-Kinks,proto-Rolling Stones, proto-Animals but sound EXACTLY like the Jeff Beck version of the Yardbirds ( no proto-). Actually the CD is a history of the 60s electric garage bands. Still most of the songs are... | |
| Spectral DMC 12, 20 or 30 preamp? Bear and Sean: Any warmth or body that you perceive is in fact a euphonic distortion. Once you listen to Spectral day in and day out you will not go back to any other electronics. But you need a revealing source to get their best performance, a Ro... | |
| Triangle, Living Voice, Sonus Faber under 3.5K I listened to the F30s not alot to like about them. Very boxy sound. Sonus Faber Concert Piano were very source dependent, also sound stage was amplitude dependent, low dbsno soundstage, high dbs the sound stage is very large.The speaker I would t... | |
| 20th Century Composers Webern, Webern, Webern..... egads gentlemen. Every majorartistic, serious composer in the 20th century is absolutely indebted to him.In particular Stravinsky when he finally found out about serial music. If you wanted to remove yourself from roman... | |
| Aerial 10T Revisions? Beemer: The 20T will. Take the 10T and improve every aspect. Hard to believe. Why did you chose the 10T over the 8??? |