subaruguru
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| How many concerts do you attend a year Hi guys.Ben Zander's BPO has me for the year (4x), as well the Boston Chamber Music Society (4x) and a variety of choral and orchestral groups perhaps another dozen times.I'm a sucker for great live jazz, although Ellen doesn't tag along for these... | |
| What is a good amp that cost no more then 3500.00 Just saw a pair of Aleph 2 monos (100/200 8/4) for only $2800! Can't beat that for a great amp value.Good luck. | |
| Preamp vs. headphone amp My Aleph P drives my Senn HD600 beautifully. | |
| Monitors are falling BOLT your stands to the monitors' bottoms, then GLUE the stands' bottoms to marble/granite slabs that are then coned (spiked) to the floor. Your babe will NOT knock them over!Not sure about your wife, however...! | |
| your favorite violin or fiddle cuts, and why? Regina Carter is truly amazing. My favorite though is a SONY/Dreyfus import from Didier Lockwood called "Tribute to Stephane Grapelli" from 2000. | |
| Words From the Wise Phew! All great ideas.My latest for those who live in an area with supeb live FM broadcasts, and/or really knowledgable jazz/classical programming:* Get a great tuner.* Go to as many live concerts for your soul AND your ears, and to support the mu... | |
| Volume settings affect on speaker cable burn in ? To Sean's Mommy and Daddy...Do you really know what your son is up to in his room with those bright lights?...and those miniature willow trees under them?!....How's that cable-sniffer doin', man?RSVP. Ern | |
| Isolating speakers from hardwood floors Like the airman's advice. When I used to run monitors on spiked stands, I'd effectively couple them by resting them on 4" thick white-marble slabs I grabbed as broken sections off tombstone-manufacturing debris near a quarry in Vermont.Now I have ... | |
| More cones? Write directly to Ken Lyon "caterham700" to get the most info most efficiently about your needs here.His Neuance lightweight iso-shelves really DO work to cohere a sonic picture WITHOUT spectral tilting. I'm quite sure of this.Good luck. | |
| Upgrade Input Needed -Discovery and Dunlavy to ?? I'm comparing Discovery Essence (tried it?...smooth without loss of detail) with Siltech ST48b, which is indeed razor-like up top, but great on some recordings. Preliminary results are that the Essence is more forgiving, but that the Siltech can b... | |
| Comparing B & W 804 Matrix with current speakers. With Verity? See my comments re Fidelios and Parsifals in previous threads and in my virtual system synopsis.I have a somewhat similar system to yours in that I have Alephs and soon an MD tuner. I found that the Electrocompaniet emc-1 MkII I VASTL... | |
| Comparing amps... Wish I could give you DIRECT comparison info, but can't except to say that I am VERY happy with my Aleph 2, as fed by an Aleph P, and will be ading an MD100 tuner any day now! Small world, eh? Why did you buy the receiver instead?There are a LOT o... | |
| EMC1 mk2 vs Cary 306/200... Brulee. Nice to hear from ya. Wired my system's four components with new dedicated lines and PCs made from Belden 83802 and ACME junction boxes, and must say I certainly can sense improvements. I may be able to get the MkII DAC for the EMC at cost... | |
| Meridian 508.24 or Levinson 39 ? Don't ignore a used Electrocompaniet EMC-1 for $2k...and you can add the 24/192 upgrade DAC later. | |
| Tweak worth 100X It's price - Vibrapods Sean, Hdm, My Parsifal Encores were carefully voiced using proprietary large brass spikes for the woofer base, and thena 1" granite slab between 8 thin corner discs of sorbothane as a sandwich between this woofer base and the upper monitor.Makes m... |