simao
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| Hegel or Pathos? @stereodynamics Thanks for the feedback. I don't remember that particular trait with the Hegel, but that was a while ago. I tend not to do a lot of low volume listening, so that might be a non-issue. Do you find your Pathos more warm than the Hegel | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Early Music Consort of London"The Art of Courtly Love" | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Just arrived: B-52's "Cosmic Thing"Macy Gray's "Stripped"Warming up the tubes and gettin' ready. | |
| Inner tracks vs outer tracks I read an interesting example of this on Peter Gabriel's "So" album. "In Your Eyes" was slated to the the last track on Side A, but Gabriel and engineer Daniel Lanois realized that because it was such a bass-heavy track, they would have to start o... | |
| Magnepan dealers And yet I bought my old Maggie 3.6rs from a Maryland dealer. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Pat Metheny - Still Life Talking | |
| What makes for a "good" musician? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oQsKRyihEAThis helps put things in perspective from a drummer's POV | |
| Can a Hana SH cartridge be set up as either MC and MM? Yes - typo. It offers 53 and that's plenty through my Pathos mk3 Classic, which powers 140w into 4ohm Spatials. I had it on the MM setting but it wasn't dynamic enough. | |
| Can a Hana SH cartridge be set up as either MC and MM? I've got mine set up as MC on my LFD LE phono stage, which offers 63db gain on that setting. No issues. | |
| Reference 3a Decapo Anniversary Absolutely amazing speakers. Let mine get away for Spatials, but would have no problem ever going back. One of the best deals in the business. | |
| What/who do you listen to that you feel is a bit of an unknown? @tgrisham +1 on Checkfield. Picked up their Through the Lens back in the 90s and it's never let me go. | |
| Little advice on upgrading current speakers +1 for the LSA's | |
| WiFi USB dongle for Oppo 105D My only success is with a wired connection from my phone or laptop to the oppo's front HDMI port. | |
| Gender bender +1 on the Sundays cover of Wild Horses. Also, Macy Gray's cover of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters is pretty good. | |
| Spatial Audio X3 Open Baffle Loudspeakers I've owned the M3 Turbo S's for a few years now and am completely happy with them. The seem to combine the best features of Maggies with Acoustic Zens. They're the first open baffle speakers I've ever had and I bought them on recommendation. If I ... |