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Which do you feel ...
Tostadosunidos: I feel the same way on AHDN.Mapman: Fogerty's vocals are better than ever on "Revival". 
Best Sounding new releases 2015
Courtney Barnett "sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I just sit" 
Best Rock Album of 2015
Courtney Barnett "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit"Dengue Fever "the deepest lake"Calexico "Edge Of The Sun" 
Extraordinary recordings on vinyl
A positive thing that came out of this for me was, although it has been quite a while, I cleaned and listened to the Ric Ocasek & "Heartbeat City" lps before posting above. (HC) is a great record, especially side 2. 
"Famous Blue Raincoat"..
Frogman: Referring to your post on12/02/14: ..for me it's the artificial sound. There's not a hint of ANALOG here. My question is:, how can such a well regarded lp, sound so artificial/almost digital in it's overall presentation?/ then, the majori... 
Songs that Inspire or Move you
Fairport Convention "Sloth" 
Songs that Inspire or Move you
Tpreaves: Where are you now?? 
Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners
Bigalt: I tried to inject humor in my recent posts. I hope you realized this, also, I hope I haven't turned you off from this important thread.At this point,(in this thread) it may be hard for first time users to get a say?I'm sure we all will app... 
Songs that Inspire or Move you
Graham Nash "Better Days" WOW! 
Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners
Frankly, I may consider adding (A) = Anal to the last portion of my "audio creed". I think that is a good thing. 
Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners
Ct0517: Chris, you are the MAN regarding various set-ups.. but I submit, what really matters is how the arm's set-up transfers to "playing conditions". After all, as I think you will agree, this is what really matters. A long time owner of this ar... 
Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners
Cto517: I appreciate your understanding my posts. That gives me a lot of pleasure.Regarding (ANAL), I doubt if there's anyone reading this that's more anal than I! I really take that as a complement! Whether or not it was implied or maybe just my ... 
Extraordinary recordings on vinyl
All of the lps we/I have bought for around 33 years have been in the "digital age" and I get much pleasure from quite a few of these. For example: Death Cab For Cutie "Kintsugi", this is my top pick right now for record of the year and the sonics ... 
Extraordinary recordings on vinyl
Here are my personal gripes with the RO lp: (1) It is thin, sterile and uninvolving(2) In my system, it doesn't throw a huge soundstage(3) To me, a huge soundstage does not in any way make an otherwise inferior recording one that I would recommend... 
Extraordinary recordings on vinyl
Qdrone: I guess a lot of our submissions will be subjective. That will be in part, based on our own listening biases/systems.I will have to respectively disagree with you on the Ric Ocasek lp however. It is good to have this type of discussion.