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| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- And the other famous Harry (Nilsson) | |
| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- Harry Belafonte - "I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day." Sounds great in a high-end system. | |
| Favorite Cowboy Junkies? For me it's usually the Trinity Sessions or the later Trinity Revisited. Got to see them play the whole album live in Arlington, VA at The Birchmere. Got to meet Margo after.Other songs I really like are Witches and You Will Be Loved Again, a co... | |
| ARCAM AVR10 or ROTEL RB 1552 MKII + RC 1572? I also bought a T778 about a month ago. Once I figured out the whole BluOS system, I decided this weekend to buy a Bluesound Vault 2i to rip all of my 1,000+ CDs and control playback through BluOS.Ripping takes 8 minutes per each CD, so I've only... | |
| NAD T778 AVR I was considering those exact same three units, the Lexicon RV-6, the Anthem, and the NAD T778. I went with the NAD b/c Dirac, because it looked better, and because BluOS will play high-rez files from Amazon Premium Music, and because of good onl... | |
| Can hardware change speaker phasing over time?? I understand the A/C capacitor issue. When my capacitor went out, I could hear the unit trying to start, so I put a stick through the grill and gave the fan a push. Sure enough it started running, though I had pushed it the wrong way! The air w... | |
| Can hardware change speaker phasing over time?? Here we are, six months later, and last night I noticed I could hear and "see" each speaker again. The vocals were not centered.I wired the speakers back to "in phase" and the world was right again. I have a wandering phase issue, either with on... | |
| Perfect Pop Songs When I hear "pop song", Katrina and the Waves "Walking on Sunshine" is what comes immediately to mind. Sticks in the head all day. I haven't heard of half the stuff you guys are listing. | |
| What album have you bought in the most different formats. Probably Donald Fagen, "The Nightfly." Original vinyl, later the cassette version which I donated to a bar in Kingston, NY. Then regular CD, then DVD-Audio. | |
| Best audiophile Christmas song Found them all on Amazon Music, all good suggestions. Thank you. | |
| Music streamers If you are happy with the DAC in your integrated receiver, then even a cheap streamer can work well. I run an Amazon Alexa Echo Dot ($25) to an Arcam bluetooth receiver that can plug into a DAC or into an integrated receiver. I run Amazon Prime ... | |
| Can hardware change speaker phasing over time?? Listening to the CM10s wired "out of phase" was pleasant and produced good imaging with vocals and the Stereophile test tracks for phase. But then I noticed I had lost a lot of bass on some songs. Loss of bass is a side effect of being out of ph... | |
| Can hardware change speaker phasing over time?? The mystery deepens! At lunch I hauled up my father’s old Mirage speakers and hooked them up to the full system, wired "in phase", and they sounded and tested as "in phase." So it has to be the B&W speakers. I put the B&Ws back in the sys... | |
| Can hardware change speaker phasing over time?? Tonight I'm going to drag up a different pair of speakers and see what happens. | |
| Can hardware change speaker phasing over time?? @rixthetrick Very good ideas! I tried this tonight. I love that right now my living room floor is covered in wires and loose CDs, just like the old days, all in search of Truth! (If only there were full ashtrays, empty wine bottles, and some y... |