simonmoon
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| Law of Accelerated Returns @onhwy61 Expensive systems in well designed listening room do scale type things better. They can go louder, sound bigger, thunder in the bass and shimmer the highs. But does that really correlate with listening to music better? Sometimes yes, s... | |
| For all you Bose 901 Haters! I used to work at a mid-fi store that carried Bose in LA during the height of their popularity. They sucked then, they always sucked, no amount of modern mods can polish those turds. Lack of detail, flabby bass, and zero imaging and soundstage. ... | |
| King Crimson I am a long time fan of all their incarnations. Their best are: Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. These 3 are their most progressive and musically adventurous. But all of their releases have something of interest. | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer As others have said, the only parameter that you can get to match, is frequency response. But there are so many other parameters to take into consideration. Just one example: different drivers have differences in: resonances, transient responses... | |
| Supper's Ready @shredsled I've seen Musical Box every time they've been to LA. I saw Genesis do the Lamb at the Shrine Auditorium back in 1975, and the Musical Box performance was a pretty good reproduction. So were their other shows of other albums. My prob... | |
| Supper's Ready As I previously mentioned, prog had a huge revival starting in the early mid 90’s. Bands in the 80’s, Marillion, IQ, Twelfth Night, Pendragon, and all the "neo prog" bands, were good. But to me, they were kind of watered down. They tended to have... | |
| Supper's Ready @larsman Yes, I know "Strange Days". Back in the mid to late 70's in LA, there was a 2 hour radio show on Sunday nights, on one of the major rock stations. It was called, "Over There", and they specialized in prog from all over the world, It w... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? @cakyol The difference = a lot of money for about 2-5% improvement in sound..... The curve of diminishing returns. As I said earlier, while this curve does exist, it is highly subjective, and is different, sometimes drastically so, for every... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? Yeah, with regards to audio, I really don’t believe there is an objective point of diminishing returns. It is up to each individual to decide where that point is for each of us. My rich cousin recently upgraded his previous speakers, Magico M3 (... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? There are certainly differences, in every aspect of sound quality. But if one is expecting the differences to have some sort of 1:1 (for every $ more I spend, I will get exactly that much more improvement) correlation, that will not happen. Th... | |
| Recommendations on small ESL speakers for tiny room +1 on David Janszen +2 on the Janszens! They are very good. | |
| Supper's Ready @larsman '9 Parts to the Wind' by a band called Strange Days, Yes, a very good album loosely in the early Genesis style. There are plenty of bands that have used Genesis as their main reference point. IQ is a band that got their start in... | |
| Supper's Ready The original album version for me, although the live Seconds Out version was pretty damn good. IMO, Genesis lost more, musically speaking, when they lost Steve Hackett, than when they lost Gabriel. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering, are j... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? @holmz maybe try the group Tool? I am already a fan of Tool. Not as big a fan as I used to be, but I still like them. | |
| What do you guys think of adding a subwoofer to this system? Yes, a pair of subs will help your system immensely. Not only will they fill in the lower octaves of music you are missing, that provide a lot of visceral impact. But there is a lot of ambient information carried in very low frequencies, so ima... |