stuartk
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| How to connect headphone amp when system has separate transport and DAC? @pauly:My Aqua La Voce S2 DAC has one pair of RCA outs and one pair of XLR outs.As the RCA's are already in use, my only option is the XLR's.photo:https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649395475-aqua-la-voce-s2-dac/images/1710537/After the Neutrik a... | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! Here is my take. . . When a newbie naively asks "What is the best ___ (insert component)?", it seems to me that the most helpful response would be one that encourages the newbie to trust his/her own ears, because ultimately what matters is what so... | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants I didn't realize until I read this that there's actually a loudspeaker religion. | |
| RIP Rick Laird OK. | |
| How to connect headphone amp when system has separate transport and DAC? The female Neutriks are too shallow and too loose to grip Acoustic Zen Silver Reference IC's.They're going back-- waste of time. | |
| What do you have on order RIGHT NOW. Symposium Svelte shelf speaker set...Symposium Svelte Plus shelves and footers have made an enormous difference in my system. | |
| RIP Rick Laird @inna:Yeah-- that's a nice one.I've never paid much attention to Mahavishnu Mk II but perhaps I owe them a closer listen. | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp245:"What I above meant by saying you can’t argue with success, is not that "popularity is proof of artistic merit", or even that there aren’t examples of garbage that sells well, but rather that anything that is popular and does sell well is ... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @winoguy17:September's great. It's called Wolf Neck Woods:https://www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/doc/parksearch/search_name.pl?state_park=31&historic_site=&...Another nice place, nearby, for a Fall; walk is the Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary... | |
| RIP Rick Laird @arcticdeath:Yeah-- I wish I'd bought that box before it went out of print!It's going for $100 or more, now. For me, when it comes to Fusion, Mahavishnu reigns supreme. I respect the likes of RTF and W. Report, but personally, I've never found the... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp24:"But there are many, many examples of great art and great success coming together in one place""Mass popularity sometimes comes from not just talent, but timing and good luck. In other cases it’s pure, hard work".Of course. I never claimed,... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @slaw:"You can’t argue with success"History is littered with examples of amazing artists in many genres/media, who never achieved fame/fortune and many examples of hacks whose popularity and wealth far outweighed their artistic abilities. | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Miles, IMHO, was one of the greatest in terms of his use of the silence between notes. . . I'm not a fan of big bands/large emsembles so I can't comment on how this quality might be evident in music by Base or Duke. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? @mahgister:"But i want to remind you and all people here that the mechanical control of vibration will not replace in any way the necessary control of the electrical noise floor level of the house and system...And will never replace the astonishin... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp24:"Let's just call both (U.S.A.) Americans and Canadians as North Americans. ;-) ". Sure. Why not? "I would argue that in some ways Americans from the North (or at least non-South) have more in common with Canadians than they do with Sou... |