simonmoon
Responses from simonmoon
| Experience with stacked subwoofers? A good friend of mine has a pair of GR Research, Double Trouble open baffle subs. One stack per channel. Probably the best sounding subs I’ve heard. | |
| Your favorite Cello recording Since I am strictly a fan of 20th century, specifically the mid to late 20th century (up to the present) classical music, most of my choices will be decidedly not exactly "smooth and sweet". My favorite is probably, Elliott Carter’s, Cello Concer... | |
| Encouraging people to consider a traditional 2 channel stereo system. I would believe that that the vast majority of us here are either Baby Boomers or Gen X. Think back to your 20’s, if someone 30+ years older than you tried to get you involved in their hobby that most likely started when they were in their 20’s. ... | |
| Does cover art of an album or recording influences your purchase? More so during the pre-internet era than now. Being a big prog fan back in the 70’s, prog albums tended to have cover art* that was a big clue as to the musical content of the of the recordings. And this was especially helpful when so much worl... | |
| Make speakers disappear. Simple, cheap Diffusion panels on the wall behind the speakers work much better than any visual trick to try to fool your brain. I don't seem to have any problems fully realizing a deep, wide, layered soundstage, whether I can seem my speakers or wall, or wit... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? A friend and I used to have a bit of a "cottage industry" upgrading crossovers in vintage, and not so vintage speakers. This was back in the late 90’s and 00’s. Even if the speakers were engineered well (reasonably flat response, no major phase ... | |
| What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you? When I am in the mood to listen, which is quite often, I hardly ever have the problem of music "not speaking to me". It is more often the case that my initial selection may not speak to me, but I can play something else, which may speak to me. ... | |
| Genesis @akgwhiz Now that we have Genesis fans here, any good "newer" groups that fill that niche for you? I’ll throw out Riverside. Start with their first 3 "trilogy" CDs. Go from there. Recommendations welcome! Don’t get me started with recom... | |
| Are Merlin TSM speakers buried with their owners? A fine speaker. Been a while since I've heard them though. I just searched HiFi Shark and there are 5 or 6 pair for sake. So obviously people do move on. | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @faustuss Interestingly, you have to keep a supply of ionized gas around which in effect acts as the diaphragm as the plasma excites the atoms of whatever gas it is producing sound. When the gas floats away or is dissipated though, no more s... | |
| Genesis I’m a huge fan of everything from Trespass up through Wind and Wuthering. Everything after that is pretty bad, or worse, IMO. It is also my opinion that they lost a lot more, musically speaking, when Steve Hackett left the band, than when Gabrie... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound @frogman His and my aunt’s house in Studio City was kind of the gathering place for my extended family while growing up. I used to spend hours listening to him do arrangements in his studio. He worked with many well known people: Rosemary Cl... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound I will recommend some big band jazz albums. But please note, despite having an uncle that played in a famous, traditional big band, I am not really a fan. Therefore, my recommendations will be contemporary, progressive, and maybe a bit avant-ga... | |
| Big Jazz Band Music with Great Sound @slaw Harry James and his Orchestra My uncle, Al Lerner, was the pianist in the Harry James orchestra during their heyday! If you want to read a fun book about his experiences with Harry James, and others, check out "Vamp 'Til Ready". | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound I would definitely look for a pair of Acapella Audio Arts speakers. One of the best horn speakers available. They use a plasma driver for the tweeter, which could be the best tweeter available. There is nothing with better transient response t... |