timrhu
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| Great sounding CDs out there... I don't have a lot of Jethro Tull, maybe 5 or 6 cds, but the best sounding of them is Minstrel In The Gallery, IMO. | |
| How do you listen to new music? I was buying 25-30 CDs a month and never got to know any albums like I used to as a youth. NiacinExactly. I know I am missing some good music that requires work to appreciate. A lot of my favorite music was deemed unworthy on the first few listens... | |
| Great sounding CDs out there... Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges RuthLaurie Anderson - Life On A StringAnnie DiFranco - Up Up Up Up UpXTC - Apple VenusA Nod To Bob, An Artists' Tribute To Bob Dylan On His 60th Birthday - This is a compliation cd on the Red House Records label. | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Half a mile from the county fairAnd the rain keep pourin' downMe and Billy standin' thereWith a silver half a crownHands are full of a fishin' rodAnd the tackle on our backWe just stood there gettin' wetWith our backs against the fenceOh the water... | |
| Likely culprit for harshness at higher volumes? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Twenty one posts to this thread and no one has suggested upgraded power cables? :OSeriously though, sounds to me like speakers or room reflections are the most likely cause of your problem. You are on the right track with your 4-ste... | |
| need to down size to monitors If your intention is to put the monitors on stands you won't gain much real estate. A couple of inches depth wise is all you'll get. Stick with small floorstand speakers. | |
| Perfect Debute Albums Edorr, thanks for pointing that out to me. I searched Bjork's discography on Wikipedia before making the above post. Should know better than to rely on WP. I'll order Gling Glo tonight. | |
| A New Believer Let's face it. You are loading the output of the amplifier with TWO complex loads. The speaker and the speaker cables.StopsIf your speaker cables present a "complex" load to the amplifier, I suggest there is something wrong with your cables. | |
| Is replacing an optical pickup assembly difficult? A few months ago my cdp was having problems reading disc. The manufacturer advised I send the unit back for a laser replacement which seemed the way to go. Before doing this I decided there was nothing to lose by pulling the laser and lubricating ... | |
| Perfect Debute Albums I'm going to add Bjork - Debut. Although not technically her first album which was released when she was eleven-years-old, we can't really count that one. I love her music as a solo artist. | |
| A New Believer For the last 40 years I have been listening to music as a hobby, with attention paid to the equipment I'm using. In the various groups of people in my acquaintance my stereo system has always been one of the best. Some of my family think I'm crazy... | |
| HDCD recommendations?? Just received Elephant Revival's Break In The Clouds. Sounds like a good one and it's HDCD encoded. | |
| What is your favorite tv theme song/composition? Mission Impossible by Lalo Schifrin.Let's not forget Gilligan's Island. I can still sing the lyrics after all these years. | |
| TOP 5 CD OR LP LISTENED MOST TO IN LAST 3 YEARS ? Should have mentioned Steely Dan's Citizen Dan, but it's a 4 cd collection so it didn't seem right. | |
| A New Believer I fully agree with Tubegroover's first comment; always trust your ears.Lak Sound advice with this caveat: don't jump to immediate conclusions based upon "your ears."There have been numerous times when I have inserted a piece of equipment, cable, t... |