starsandseas
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| Hooverphonic anyone? Hi Albertporter, Actually their music after about 1998 became way more pop than their earlier efforts. On their website maneuver to Blue Wonder Power Milkand play the song Eden. Then listen to the cut Battersea. Really any of the songs on the two ... | |
| Best female vocals on CD Anything with Skye Edwards singing. Her voice is like velvet chocolate. Soft and smooth, and very very warm. A bit if Brit in her for sure, but liquid smooth beyond belief.Listen to her on Big Calm or Charango or Who Can You Trust by Morcheeba. Ve... | |
| Name three of yours the most favourite drummers If forgot Kofi Baker! Yes, Kofi not Ginger. Kofi is Gingers son and can this guy crank! He has a totally out front lead style that fits in with one of the best progressive jazz fusion bands on the planet, Chris Poland's OHM. All of these guys rock... | |
| Name three of yours the most favourite drummers All three absolutely phenomenal. I would have to add Steve Gadd and Buddy Rich and Billy Cobham to the list as well.Had the opportunity to see Steve Smith's Buddy's Buddies at a small club in Chicago once. It was his tribute to Buddy Rich, complet... | |
| Skye Edwards, ever hear her beautiful voice? I had not heard of Allison. I will definitely look her up. If she is in Skye's league she deserves it.Big Calm is great by the way and one of my favorites. Two others are Who Can You Trust (an absolute classic IMO) and Charango, all featuring Skye... | |
| Best recordings to demonstrate soundstage? Wow, thank you all. Many of these I know only by name. I'm heading over to Fry's and will look them up and report back.Paco De Lucia - I was just listening to his cd Castro Marin last night. Quite nicely recorded with plenty of dynamics but also v... | |
| It's time for some new music Jens Johansson,Psychedelia to the extreme. He will take you down a very twisting road, with some of the most amazing keyboard work imaginable. It's funny but I have a thread now on good music to judge soundstage by, and Jens Johansson surely is on... | |
| Best recordings to demonstrate soundstage? Thank you for the ideas. I don't have any of those recordings but will try to get them. The closest I have is Division Bell by Pink Floyd minus Roger Waters...I agree, there is nothing wrong with box speakers, they have a different sound than what... | |
| Out of phase breaking in, Anywone ever hear of it? Thanks for the reply. It doesn't look like many folks are familiar with this technique. You have made very good points about finding the appropriate volume level to do this with.In my experience under normal conditions many speakers never break in... | |
| Best value speakers available I recommend the Eminent Technology LFT-8's. They may be a bit high at $1800 to $2000, but their sound compares favorably to speakers five times their cost. In my opinion they beat or match many of the big electrostatics with their liquid sound. Th... | |
| Most important component?? Speaker, Amp.The faulty one!Beyond faulty components the speakers are by far the most important. They introduce the most distortion and in any system and for a given room may or may not work. Name me any other component that can reduce total disto... | |
| Question, why do some amps double power from... Thank you for your responses. The reason I ask is that I intend to drive a pair of Thiel CS3.6's and they spend a lot of time around 2.3 ohms. It has been said that the they are driven best by amps that double their power into 4 ohms. I guess they... | |
| Thiel 3.6, what will drive them best? Well, I have found an amp that should last me for quite a while. I am picking up a B&K EX442 Sonata from fellow Audiogoner Sac. He's great to deal with.The amp is rated at 200wpc at 8 ohms and 350wpc at 4 ohms. I am told and have read it has a... | |
| Thiel 3.6, what will drive them best? Thank you, you are right, silly levels do not apply. I have Klipsch's for that!Ron | |
| Thiel 3.6, what will drive them best? That's a point I hadn't considered. Low impedance easily drives most amps into clipping, generating square waves who's harmonics filter up to the tweeter, blowing it. This would generally lead me to believe that whatever amp I choose, it should ha... |