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| Guilty Pleasures? French-Canadian actress/singer Carole Laure. Her albums "Alibis" and "Hold On" are pretty good. Kinda like a French Marianne Faithfull at her better moments. Also, it doesn't hurt that she's gorgeous! | |
| Candidates for Re-mastering? Van Morrison: "Moondance" | |
| Review: Yamaha S1500 universal disc player CD Player In the current issue of "Sound&Vision" (Dec.2004) reviewer David Ranada reviews the S1500. In his write-up he discloses that the S1500's multi-channel (not stereo) outputs must be used for hi-rez (DVD-A and SACD) and the OS display must be sel... | |
| Audible Illusions L-1 vs. Marsh P2000T preamps? In response to Bigtee's proven expertise in AI pre-amps, let me opine that, to my ears, the best input on the L1 is to use the tape input for your most favored line source.Also, a belated thanks to Bigtee for informing me where the dip switches we... | |
| Review: Yamaha S1500 universal disc player CD Player I was about to call Yamaha and make arrangements to send the S1500 back when I decided to do a by-pass test. I ran the S1500 directly into my power amp and, lo and behold, no more popping sounds!Clearly, the problem is not the Yamaha, but it is my... | |
| Review: Yamaha S1500 universal disc player CD Player I am not a reviewer; I am a consumer. What I am doing is telling my fellow consumers my experience.You see, I can't call the manufacturer to tell them of my problem and ask for another free sample, like Stereophile reviewers.Luckily we have the in... | |
| Review: Yamaha S1500 universal disc player CD Player Yes, the same review is over at audioreview.com. Hopefully, I'll get it over to audioasylum.com soon. Anything wrong with that?I did state in the review the problems with the unit and that I believe it is defective. Doesn't the consumer have a rig... | |
| Jazz station recommendations, please. I prefer Columbia University's WKCR (89.9) over Newark's WBGO. WKCR is not 100% jazz but primarily so. If you like modern to avant-garde, then it's the place to be. There's also Phil Schapp's morning "Birdflight" show and his weekend "Traditions i... | |
| what's your favorite album cover? Anyone remember the classic b&w covers of the avant-garde jazz releases of the ESP label in the 60's?Anyone remember the ledgendary "Mom's Apple Pie" cover of 1972(?). | |
| I'd like to buy a cd recorder . Please help. The inexpensive TDK will serve your purposes. I have one as well. | |
| AR 77 XB Turntable...Any information??? I had one way back then. It was very similiar to the original AR turntable. Some differences were updated cosmetics like a patterned mat and the bottom of the wood base was a molded plastic design.The main difference was a slightly updated arm wit... | |
| Memories........What made you catch the Audio Bug? It was in 1968 that my buddy took me to his business associate friend's apartment to transact some business. I was all of 18 years old and had never heard a component system, only junk like big wooden box Magnavox consoles. I knew that real stereo... | |
| Review: Acoustat Model 2 Speaker Ferrari,You say every few years the interfaces need to be serviced. Exactly what maintenance do they need? | |
| Best speaker cables for electrostatic speakers? I am using Homegrown Audio Silver Lace speaker cables between my tube amp and electrostatic speakers for the past three years with superb results! | |
| Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time I nominate "The AR Tuner" from the early 1970's.It had the most accurate linear tuning dial ever; if you tuned it to, say, 93.9 in the off position and then turned it on, it would be perfectly center tuned.It had superb sensitivity and selectivity... |