simao
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| Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea? I ditch mine immediately. PIA when taking records out of rack. In fact, I guess it was record sleeves that were the tangential inspiration for me to build my own record storage racks of the records are all front facing. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Is there a separate forum for those who have insider privileges? Or are you all allowed to talk about that. | |
| Focals latest - Cat Houses? You put those things in my house and I would start scratching them! Aesthetically they’re not bad; I mean, I would change that god-awful greige color to something with a bit more personality. But I’m going to echo @erik_squires observation about w... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Btw, little miffed that the npr/pbs thread was removed so quickly. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Idk if I would peg Mary Coughlan as a jazz singer, or even that jazzy really. She kind of reminds me of a category that would encompass Mary Black, Kirsty McCall, Shawn Colvin, for example. Non-traditional singer-songwriters whose lyrics place the... | |
| My Favorite Tweaks, What is yours? I initially scoffed at these but then in a bout of liquid courage actually bought a couple. Those SR PHTs really do make a difference when it comes to analog playback. I have the green one on my head shell and the black one at the tonearm pivot po... | |
| The cool factor- who has it? It would have to be Freddie Mercury wearing a Flash Gordon t-shirt riding on the shoulders of Darth Vader towards the end of Queen concerts in the late 70s early '80s. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I discovered and fell in love with Fairport convention about 25 years ago or so. It was a natural offshoot of my passion and love for English folktales and late medieval studies. I wasn’t alive when they were setting the tone for everybody from Ka... | |
| Triangle Magellan Duetto 40th Anniversary Triangles are incredibly detailed but never clinical speakers. I've had both their monitor and floor stander models over the years and keep coming back to them. Simply a well made, acoustically gorgeous speaker. They pair well with tube equipment. | |
| use of ChatGPT for HIFI About a month ago I talked with my Claude AI about an amplifier upgrade. Has already detailed here by several others, it asked for my system details, my room size, my listening habits and volume, and what I was looking for in my system. It then sp... | |
| I can live with this. A few weeks ago I installed a Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum II into the system, replacing a smaller SS amp, and powering Reference 3A de Capos. Like you, my room is small and my listening levels are on the low side and this synergy is perfect for me. ... | |
| Have you ever bought something you've never heard of? Id never heard of LSA or even had them on my radar till I think I saw someone mention it in a forum post here and so I went out and found an LSA statement intimated. Loved it! Beautiful and smootj and it lasted me until my finances ebbed. | |
| I'm Just Not Hearing It..., Do You??? This seems similar to listening for that creek of the piano stool Ringo was sitting on when they played that final note of "A day in the life". No, it's not necessary to enjoying the music, but it is a fun little Easter egg. | |
| Vietnam era stereo reference My father in law gave me his old pair of PX-bought Coral BX-200 speakers. In bad shape and with corroded wiring. He had bought them when he was stationed over there. I rebuilt and refinished the cabinets and upgraded the caps. The drivers tested f... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? Besides John Denver and Paul Winter when I was really young with my mom at St John the Divine in NYC, the first real show I was at was, Believe it or not, New kids on the block in 1989 when I took my high school girlfriend as a birthday present. I... |