stuartk
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| All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow Phil Spector made an awful mess of that album. . . call me cynical but I'd be surprised if much could be done to significantly improve it. . . I can stand to listen to the MoFi Gold disc of Layla and my Japanese SHM of Exile On Main Street (with t... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! No children, mahgister, but we have a good-sized dog, which would still make me nervous, even without the earthquakes! | |
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| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! Thank you, mahgister, for providing these details...I have monitors on stands. Placing these springs either between the speakers and the stands' top plates or under the stands' bottom plates strikes me as rather precarious. . . and given that we... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! Thanks, bewgow...According to Amazon: "Sound full of thick warm, it's very suitable for systems whose tone is cold and tight and lack of attraction" I will resist the urge to indulge in adolescent humor and simply state that the above characteriz... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! millercarbon--Thanks for your response. FYI, my system is digital only. I'd be interested to know what you tried before adopting the Townshend podiums for your speakers.I looked on the Nobosound site and saw Schuman generators but nothing else tha... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings cd318"Sometimes, on certain albums, it’s just bewildering how they came to make such appalling mastering choices in the studio". Yes, indeed. . . and "remasters" are all over the map in terms of "improvement" in SQ! Discs that are truly "appa... | |
| EXTRA! EXTRA!! Millercarbon Proven Wrong!!! Read all about it! EXTRA! EXTRA!! @millercarbonbegow asserts you are "trying to teach people that to get a great audio system you do not need expensive boxes. You need to be smart about what you are doing. The little tweaks is what matters".I appreciate this campaig of yours. I've... | |
| What cd player should I buy? Sorry-- should read R2R "ladder" DAC ! | |
| What cd player should I buy? Am I missing something here?My understanding is that hooking up an external DAC to a CDP will bypass the DAC in the CDP. ... so why change the CDP? My suggestion: get hold of an R@R "ladder" DAC. | |
| Are you still ignoring Iris Dement? Meant to type:She's indeed a "great singer" in terms of conveying emotion BUT there are other Country-ish singers who have far superior technique AND the ability to pierce you through the heart... | |
| Are you still ignoring Iris Dement? She's indeed a "great singer" in terms of conveying emotion there are other Country-ish singers who have far superior technique AND the ability to pierce you through the heart... Personally, I find her tunes a bit on the maudlin side. . . and I'm ... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? ... which renders us deeply vulnerable to confusing subjective and objective. We'll say "He/She's the best" when it would be more accurate to say "They appeal to me the most". The two can become very easily conflated. . . | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? It's certainly very interesting to see what qualities people most admire in their favorites and which adjectives they employ when describing these qualities. "The best", "The Greatest", "Perfect", etc. do more to express the poster's enthusiasm th... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings jumiaOf course not. . . . . . but an EQ might make enough of a difference to move something from the "unlistenable" to the "listenable" category. Should this matter to you? If there's music you really love that's only available in a format with r... |