stuartk
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| Taylor Swift Concert Prices Personably, I can’t imagine paying that much to see any artist but if I had unlimited funds, I might well hold a different view. As is so often the case when the topic of "perceived value" arises, it’s all about the context. For example, I recent... | |
| Happy Accident @nonoise @russ69 @ghdprentice Thanks for your supportive comments. It's very gratifying to discover that, despite the limitations constraining my room, there are still ways to improve SQ and thus enhance the listening experience. And I fi... | |
| Which Hegel Amp with LRS+ @jjss49 Thanks for your clarification regarding the nuances of the various Hegel integrateds. | |
| Which Hegel Amp with LRS+ @jjss49 The A. Excellence guys were the ones who declared the 390 and 590 warmer than the rest of the line and the 390 the warmest. I don't claim to know which model would best suit the speakers in question or the OP's tastes in terms of tonal p... | |
| Which Hegel Amp with LRS+ @dcpillai One factor you may wish to to consider when deliberating between various Hegel integrateds: the 390 and 590 are voiced more warmly than the 190. | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? @frogman "...or in the other room is a large collection of High End audio gear not even plugged in." 🤣 "Not even plugged in" says it all ! | |
| Caveat about the Cable Company return policy @ozzy The Cable Company | |
| Caveat about the Cable Company return policy @fsonicsmith1 Yes; Steven was great. I'll forfeit a couple hundred dollars in unutilized deposit fees but won't be buying anything more from TCC. | |
| Then Play On The live Boston Tea Party recordings from around the same time are also terrific. | |
| Building a synergistic system. What to buy? Not a gear recommendation per se but if you want to try out gear in your room and also maximize buying power by going used, TMR (The Music Room) offers a return policy on most if not all gear they sell. Not a "fan boy" but I've found them very pr... | |
| Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: @bdp24 "...has everybody heard Joan Osborne singing "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" backed by the bros?" Yes, indeed. Stand-out performance ! | |
| Do the Components Match? Can you try some other speakers in your room? | |
| Songbirds Documentary There are also a number of shorter videos on Youtube featuring well-known players playing guitars in the Songbirds collection of vintage axes. One of my favorites series features Jack Pearson playing Duane Allman’s Firebird. Of course, Jack could ... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities @gladmo You mean, mine? Thanks! | |
| Top two most important sound qualities For emotional engagement, an absence of distractions such as fatiguing highs and poorly controlled bass is helpful but I'm not at all convinced emotional engagement is, in my case, dependent upon "high fidelity". I can be just as emotionally engag... |