stevecham
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| Which tube amp to buy? How about Antique Sound Labs Hurricane monoblocks (www.divertech.com). Very powerful (KT88s) as I remember from reading about them, great review in TAS, and only $4400/pair. | |
| Personal speaker evolution Ozfly: short story...my pair of 7s were among the first ever to be shipped and after several years I began having problems with them; the high end drivers of the coaxial high mid/tweeters burned out twice. I thought it might be the amps (Bryston 7... | |
| How good is the Koetsu Urushi cart? Ditto Cmk. I am listening to Amon Tobin's "Out From Out Where" and the bass is thunderous, the highs are airy and the mids are very sweet. It doesn't get any better,and if it does, it's hard to imagine that major improvements are possible. And the... | |
| Krell FPB Owner want to try Tube Amp or Integrated I run a Krell 400cx into Thiel CS6. This is NOT a harsh system. Do not be taken in by tube "mythology." That Krell you own is wonderful piece of equipment and is state of the art. Patekswiss said it all: fast, authoritative and in control.You won'... | |
| Personal amp evolution Cambridge Audio receiver (circa 1973)Pioneer 626 receiverOnkyo int amp (25WPC)Pioneer receiver (100WPC)Parasound 1200 stereo ampParasound 750 stereo amp (2 run as monoblocks)Bryston 4B ST stereo ampBryston 7B ST monoblocksKrell 400cx stereo amp | |
| Personal speaker evolution spanning the time period from 1973 to presentTDC1 (transducer development corp)Bose 301Bose 501KEF Q15 (I still have and use a s studio monitors)Paradigm 100Thiel 7Dynaudio 3.0Thiel 6 | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? Thiel CS6, fully broken in and powered by a Krell 400cx, do very well at low volumes. They retain all the uncompressed dynamics and frequency response and still allow me to fully engage in the music during "microbreaks" I take every now and then, ... | |
| VPI users, what cartridge??? Koetsu Urushi Black on a JMW 10.5/Aries tracking at 1.98 grams into a 100 Ohm load into a Krell KPE phono stage. Oh yeah, Harmonic Technologies phono cables, not using the ground wires, and one twist of the arm wires to provide a smidge of antiskate. | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Macallan 18 | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts Sigur Ros has two albums out now, both are available. They are from Iceland. Their latest (2nd) album is entitled "( )" and it is pure cathedrals of music. Sound quality is tops. I can't really describe the style but you will positively love them.... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts 1)The Who - 1974 Quadraphenia tour (Boston Garden, MA)2)Genesis - 1974 Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour (Music Hall, Boston, MA)3)ELP - 1974 Brain Salad Surgery tour (Boston Garden, MA)4)U2 - 1984 War tour (Music Hall, Boston, MA)5)Sigur Ros - 2003... | |
| Where R U????? Berkeley, CA | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Elgar - SospiriSigur Ros - ( ) esp. track 6Grainger - Variations On A Theme From County Derry (Danny Boy)Dvorak - Symphony 9, 2nd movement.The best thread in a long time | |
| I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah Sarah Vaughan - In the Land of HiFi | |
| et tu Koetsu? Yikes! Yellowness? What does that mean sonically? I have an Urushi with about 50 hours on it now and I play everything from Zep to Stooges to Ellington to Respighi to Ray Brown. Everything I throw at it sounds natural and uncolored. Trackability i... |