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| Best sounding headphones you have owned? In my experience, in my system....it will give you what is on the recording. If it's a closely miked recording, it will be upfront and personal...yet still in front and away from the circumference of your physical head. With recordings that show t... | |
| Best sounding headphones you have owned? RAAL SR-1a driven by their VM-1a amp, with a Lumin X1 as the source. This gets me the closest to a 2-channel speaker setup as I've heard, and in some respects, rivals it as well. | |
| No 1099-k for 2022 for Paypal and other payment platforms ....and they have delayed it yet again. IRS delays controversial new rule on tax reporting for apps like Venmo | |
| Only two tracks to test your system, forever! These two are exceptional! Both on Qobuz Artist: Yuri Honing Trio Album: Alive Track: Isobel Artist: Arne Domnerus/Lars Erstrand Album: Live is Life Track: Drum Boogie | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? Here's some tracks that would show off a great system... 'Isobel' - Yuri Honing Trio (Alive) 'Drum Boogie' - Arne Domnerus (Live is Life) 'Acoustic Revenge' - Antonio Forcione (Live!) 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' - Benny Goodman (Benny Goodman... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings A few standouts: Arne Domnerus / Lars Erstrand - 'Live is Life' (Live) Tom Waits - 'Nighthawks at the Diner' Benny Goodman - 'Benny Goodman & Friends' Rickie Lee Jones - 'Naked Songs Live and Acoustic' | |
| For a quick good time, blankets... The flooring halfway between your ears and your speakers, is often the very first of many direct reflections in the listening area.....especially for those that listen in the nearfield. At the very least, a natural fiber rug/carpet and thick rug p... | |
| Audiophile Record Labels Yarlung Records is consistently outstanding. Hard to beat. | |
| Have ~$10-12k...what would you do? Have you addressed your listening room yet? Without dialing that in, I wouldn't spend a dime on a new component. | |
| Lumin A-1 or Lumin U1 My Lumin A1 is one of the very best purchasing decisions I've made in the 30+ years in this hobby. In almost two years it's worked flawlessly, and sounds so damn good that I wouldn't dream of replacing it.....which is why I hope like hell that Lum... | |
| Norah Jones The new album is just ok in my book. Sound quality not up to par with 'Come Away With Me', and definitely far short of 'Not Too Late', which I believe is her best recording. Day Breaks sounds compressed and a little closed in to my ears. | |
| Songs Faber Olympica III I forgot to add....my toe-in has the tweeters crossing about 2ft behind my head. After a LOT of trial and error, I find this gives the best balance. I am on on a wooden floor on a cement slab as you are, and I found very nice gains in bass definit... | |
| Songs Faber Olympica III The previous owner must have switched spikes or something, for they definitely come from the factory with shorter ones for the rear, longer ones in front to achieve the proper rake. I tried both inward and outward with the positioning of the ports... | |
| New Bel Canto REF600M using NCORE This is the first review I've seen of them. He seemed to like them, although not enough to push his Anthem's out the door.http://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/equipment-reviews/930-bel-canto-design-e-one-ref600m-mono-amplifiershttp:// | |
| Back wall treatment? My advice before you spend some money is to temporarily hang a heavy towel, or a rug in that spot to see if it makes a wholesale improvement. If it does, then some nice absorbent treatment there should do the job. I wouldn't recommend diffusion in... |