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| What is your favorite guitar solo of all time? Hodu has it right after all. Just crazy guitar. | |
| help me make sonos better I can report on 'plan 1.5' as Paul layed it out above. I have a couple ZP90's in various systems in my home. One of them has been modified by Rick Cullen. The two DACs I have at my disposal are a Peachtree Decco and a Cambridge DacMagic. With good... | |
| What is your favorite guitar solo of all time? Billy Corgan's solo on Zwan's 'Honestly.' | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? My confusion about the two stems from this passage in the Stereophile review of the DM posted online:"The D/A chips are the same Wolfson WMB8740 24-bit DACs used in Cambridge Audio's Azur 740C and 840C CD players." ...but this is not so, apparently. | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? I didn't realize that Cdface -- I thought the 840C had the same DAC as the Dacmagic. Hmmm.... | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? Srwooten, I'm glad she's loving the music, but it'll be interesting to see if it's as much fun for you guys to hear your, say, 4-year old daughter sing along with 'My Humps' in a few short years. I don't doubt that they put on an amazing show. And... | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? Bottom line for me is that pop music has lyrics, and lyrics are about something.That's where BEP is a complete and epic FAIL. Good music, sure, and phenomenal production...all delivering lyrics which actively, calculatedly celebrate the worst in u... | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? thank you all for your great comments. I'm taking them to heart, and will settle down and while I A) baseline my system and B) develop a reasonable vocabulary to describe what, if any, shortcomings I perceive. viva la musica! | |
| What's your profession? Age? 50, commercial director, and about 40k spread across a six-zone Sonos system. | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? Robr45, that's a great perspective. I've had the same sense - that I'm about to jump off a cliff here. Can you elaborate? | |
| Name your lame duck artist........ Agree - Tesh makes Yanni look like Johnny Rotten.= best post ever. | |
| Name your lame duck artist........ Truman - re: Joel, there are a number of hysterical and insightful essays by pop culture vulture chuck klosterman that I encourage you to check out. He has an enormous amount of respect for BJ, and credits him with everything that he is due...and ... | |
| Name your lame duck artist........ billy joel. for more, see: chuck klosterman | |
| Sonos vs. airport express Rbstehno's right. And:- vastly superior dedicated remote for Sonos- marginally worse desktop software for Sonos- much better multi-zone support with Sonos- ultimately, no need for a computer to administer Sonos- actual human being tech support ava... | |
| Do you have tin ears? I for one have often pondered the irony of the average age of the ears which can afford to purchase outlandishly expensive audiophile systems.(and yes, unquestionably, I'm sure I do.) |