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| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Tony Bennett with Bill Evans on JVC XRCD is really enthralling. Evans' lyricism is bettered only by the utterlyastounding fluidity and sonic coherence of Bennett's oh-so-nakedly-miked crooning. Phew! | |
| Can $15,000 Sound As Good As $75,000? Phew! Having only revisited audiophilia in the last year after a long hiatus, I'm carefully building my ref system at the LOWER amount! Verity Audio Parsifals ($8k demo); Aleph P ($2k used; Aleph 2 monos ($3k used), Red Dawn IC and cables ($1500),... | |
| Towards a Tuner Hierarchy Interestung idea.A local dealer absolutely RAVES about the Audio Refinement Complete Tuner, but when I asked him if I would gain a tremendous amount over the tuner FM section of my old NAD Monitor 7400 receiver, he agreed that NAD made superb tune... | |
| "Pace", it's importance for enjoyment? Nice pace to your last post, Red!To recap (esp for Sean), I don't believe having AMPLE bass has anything to do with enabling PRaT--usually quite the opposite! It's the high frequency cues from the transientsthat signal the ear-brain timing sensori... | |
| "Pace", it's importance for enjoyment? Hi Red!Yes, simplicity in that it uses a single midrange driver without networks! If the impulse response is at least decent you have a chance of getting reasonable sound. When asked what loudspeakers impressed him the most, the ex head designer a... | |
| gfp-750 ? any comments? good or bad If your choice is a new one, I think you'd be better off getting the real thing: a used Aleph P with remote, for not much more $$.OTOH I was SO disappointed with the N804 (specifically produced for the American market to meet a price-point as an a... | |
| Floor Standers Vs. Book Shelf Speakers You said it well, Jeff! I'll simply add that a great 6.5" two-way is generally FAR preferable to an average larger 3-way at the same price-point. There's nothing worse than sloppy, incoherent, boomy-bass from poor driver integration or improper ro... | |
| Linn CD Player Tweaks Gotta second the Neuance under my CDP. Tightened up the mid/treble sufficiently to reduce annoyance with digital grunge! I THINK I prefer it with cones, too, although I'm not sure about this. Ditto weighting the top (I think this is more a functio... | |
| "Pace", it's importance for enjoyment? Phew!...interesting posts. I too have to report much pleasure from the use of a Neuance platform under my old CDP. Is the fine "pace" a function of the improved coherence from perceiving harmonics as better "attached" to their fundamentals? Is it ... | |
| Revel F30, Dyn 1.8/3.0, V.A. Beethoven? Nice post, Kthomas. Given a highly-reflective (live) room, I might suggest trying speakers in a relative near-field arrangement.If so, then you'll want a speaker that coheres well in a short distance. This coherence is more apt to be aquired easil... | |
| Best tweak Jayboard: indeed, I ganged two power strips upthrough the baseboard to a single one sitting under my rack, with just its switch and LED bulb visible. I thus can sleepily stumble over at 3AM and kill the monos' greedy thirst with a push of my big t... | |
| Best tweak Kubla, Dekay, Sean: Cheers!The basement idea: Wife couldn't stand the sight of Aleph 2 monos out in the open, nor did I want to accept their heating the room in the summer (600w idle)---nor asymmetrical speaker cables, as I have the rack on one si... | |
| Your favorite blues album? So sad to hear of John Lee Hooker's passing. Heard a fine duet with Bonnie Raitt during a tribute. Anybody know which disc could've been from?Those of us in the Boston area are used to hearing Mae Cramer's "Blues After Hours" show on WGBH (89.7 FM... | |
| I am nuts to use these speakers? Interesting thread....I was pretty happy with some nice two-way monitors developed by two friends of mine in the early 90s (one now head designer at Boston Acoustics, the other runs Acentec, the acoustical engineering offshoot of the original BB&a... | |
| Best tweak Rubber (soft) door stops? Hm.... I'd try something of the same height that's more rigid, and listen for better temporal performance. My favorite tweak involved hanging my Class A monos under the basement floor joists: thermal, acoustic and visual ... |