stuartk
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| Derek and the Dominos 50th @onhwy61Thanks for those links-- interesting details.Apparently, those involved in the recording process have no regrets about the poor SQ. | |
| Help selecting a power cord. @lak: "Unfortunately, the Audiobacon cable review as all other suggestions is only an opinion which many will disagree with."One has to begin somewhere. One can research the opinions of others or not-- utilize them or not. If one knows what one's... | |
| Help selecting a power cord. What a potentially confusing collection of responses!You feeling overwhelmed ninja12?I don't belive you ever stated your budget.That would've helped. Power conditioning might or might not be worth the investment. Where I live, the power is very cl... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings @ghdprentice: "I have always been very careful to navigate my evolving system towards greater fidelity but to stay slightly back from ultra detailed / revealing. One step to far and many recordings sound bad... there are at least two kinds of bad... | |
| All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow Well, we'll see. . . On my cheap HK computer speakers, this sounds less muddy than versions I've heard so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV4pFV5nX4 | |
| DAC upgrade suggestion @three_easy_paymentsJust listen top what "All of these posters rave about how superior the R2R DAC's are....yet I suspect none of them have heard Lampizator's DS53 digital engine, a derivative of the digital engine used in their Pacific DAC. Th... | |
| All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow From the Rolling Stone article: “You want to be respectful of the original,” says Hicks. “Dhani and I hate the expression ‘de-Spectorizing.’ That’s not the point of this project.”Too bad-- that's exactly what I believe it needs! The article goe... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings @riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook re: "It would pay to do your "homework" as to what recordings sound best for each title you want in your collection".Very good idea-- not so easy to put into practice!I've given up on S. Hoffman forums as one ... | |
| All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow Just checked out the official description that include this nugget: "The new mix transforms the album by sonically upgrading it – making it sound brighter, fuller and better than ever before".Since when is "brighter" a good thing when it comes to... | |
| 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... |