timwat
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| Best Live Albums? "Footloose & Fancy Free" - Bill Bruford's Earthworks.Stunning jazz performance, excellent sonics and production. Got five stars from Downbeat magazine, to boot."At Montreux Jazz Festival" - Bill Evans TrioThe 1968 performance w/ Eddie Gomez an... | |
| "simian" rock/pop songs?-a survey OK, not a title or lyric, just a great quote from the inimitable Tom Waits:"Here's something i stumbled upon at my daughter's birthday party: I rubbed the outside of a large tight balloon and obtained the familiar screaming warble you hear when cl... | |
| I need a live great recording All Night Wrong - Allan Holdsworth, with Chad Wackerman (drums) and Jimmy Johnson (bass).The sticker on the cd read something like:"The greatest living guitar player in the world has finally released his first live recording. It's godlike."Now, Ho... | |
| Which is the best recording of Bach's Mass in B mi Regarding your request for speaker suggestions, what might be helpful is some feedback on what you liked and disliked about the various speakers you've already auditioned. Also, should we assume your indicated price range is what you want to spend... | |
| Classical music guide for LP You may be interested in:http://www.classical.net/music/welcome.htmlThis is an interesting "starter" site that is geared to introduce different aspects/periods of the genre to the curious newcomer. You'll get as much an basic education about sub g... | |
| Blue Gas in Tubes - Why? Is it Bad? From the KR Audio web siteDEBUNKING SOME POPULAR HiFi BUNKUM MESH PLATES Sometimes referred to as mesh bases (sic). Output triodes with plates formed from wire mesh material seem to be the latest hot item in tube HiFi. Mesh plates are nothing n... | |
| Classical music guide for LP Dougdeacon brings up a good point - are you interested primarily in the performance or the sonics? Seems to me the recommendations would be radically different depending on your answer.Different strokes and all that, but for me the performance is ... | |
| Tweeter cone on my B&W 805 Naut's is pushed in ...And if your wife or significant other walks in at that compromising moment?My bet is it's going to be very difficult to justify future purchases, and that you're going to get a lot of time to sample the soundstage and imaging from the couch. | |
| "Beginner" audiophile Turntable for $200-$300? Wlusk:You asked me to comment on your consideration of a Technics BD20 vs. VPI, as I purchased VPI to move away from the same Technics. Here's my comments:Disclaimer: Many here on Audiogon have been involved longer and to much deeper degrees in th... | |
| Which: VPI HW19 Jr. or III vs. REGA P3 and P25 Hi, wlusk:Ok, will post on the referenced "beginner" thread. | |
| Which: VPI HW19 Jr. or III vs. REGA P3 and P25 Stated Bias: I asked this same question a year or so ago, ended up with a VPI HW19 MKII w/ RB600.At the time, I decided to step up from my old Technics BD20, and didn't know which way to go. TWL and others noted, as Jmcgrogan2 does above, that the... | |
| Maggie 1.6QR versus "high-end" monitors. Sunnyjim -As a Maggie convert, I strongly believe this is where the axiom "don't decide based upon print reviews only...audition!" is mandatory. No matter what anyone tells you, you owe it to yourself to go check out planars yourself (assuming you... | |
| Maggies & Logans: Why so many for sale? As a current Maggie owner, I can only presume that many of the idiosyncracies become unacceptable over time...or maybe they weren't aware of them at the time of purchase.Don't know about M/L as I've never owned them, only auditioned, but factors l... | |
| Thank You, to the Person Who Helped You the Most. For me, thanks to Tom Lyons for priceless guidance and wisdom during the early days of my getting back into analog, as well as more recently sharing his HIFI tonearm mod that I just installed and am auditioning (I'll post a review next week).Besid... | |
| Power cord? Why? Sonic_genius: I think we all fall victim at times to forgetting that it really is supposed to be about the music. So many threads end up a religious argument about hardware...it reminds me of my days as a freshman in high school, when "I like prog... |