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| What group do you wish would be remastered? Van Morrison "MOONDANCE". | |
| Best sound at Stereophile show. Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me? It seems the bigger the speaker the lousier the sound. For me, best sound at the show for the second year in a row was the Legend speaker driven by their Nirvana tube monoblocks. I heard incredibly ... | |
| Regrets Many regrets selling my Berning EA-230 tube amp and Chartwell LS3/5a speakers. A magical combo! | |
| CD Players which connect direct to Amp? The Denon DCD-1650AR has a front panel rotary volume control and,also,a second set of fixed outputs. | |
| A search for great cables for electrostatics I'm very happy with Silver Lace interconnects and speaker cable for my Acoustat 1+1's. Very open, clean and clear, no grain, and not bright as some claim with pure silver cables. Great prices, too! | |
| What group do you wish would be remastered? The Rolling Stones, way way overdue! | |
| Headphones, or Speakers??? I gave the Orpheus a listen at the Stereophile Hi-Fi show in NYC last May. To me they sounded terrific but certainly not $11,000 worth. I thought a retain price of $2000 or $3000 was more like it. One of the guys at HeadRoom, who hosted the demo, ... | |
| Acoustat HT system I own 1+1's and have used them as the main front speakers in a home theatre system. I do not recommend them for this purpose. Low efficiency, less than great dynamics, and planar dispersion patterns do not make for a convincing audio/video experie... | |
| Barber's Adagio for Strings From the 60's, New York Philharmonic conducted by the late Thomas Shippers. Sony/CBS Classical remastered it on CD a few years back. I'm pretty sure it is still available. A very Romantic and poignant interpretation. | |
| Problems with Svetlana KT88 and Sonic Frontiers I'm using the Sovtek KT-88s in my Music Reference RM-9 amp with great results. It beats generic Chinese 6550s and EL-34s by a mile. I've had them for five months with no problems. The Svetlana's have a great reputation in the high end and I'd like... | |
| Best Blues Rock recommendations? Check out Johnny Winter's classic "Second Winter". Try to find the quickly out of print Mobile Fidelity CD. Forget about the standard Columbia CD-it's awful.If you have a good turntable/cartridge/phone pre-amp then find the original 3 sided LP rel... | |
| can speaker cables help? I've found Monster M1000 interconnects to dramatically enhance the illusion of depth....IN MY SYSTEM. | |
| Best female vocals on CD Check out the new Norah Jones "Come Away With Me" CD on the Blue Note label just released on February 26,2002. She's a new talent, 22 years old,with a voice that is smooth and seductive. To me, she's a bit Holly Cole, Billie Holiday, and Diana Kra... | |
| Japanese CDs Try redtrumpet.com. They have a fabulous selection of Japanese imports. Most are 24 bit remastered in mini-LP sleeves. | |
| Exactly what is oversampling? I know that a $200 Pioneer dvd player is not going to blow an Audio Aero Capital cd player out of the water. I understand that quality high tolerance parts, massive power supplies, layout architecture, and build quality have an enormous effect on ... |