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| Cover Songs that are better than the Original Bjork: The Boho DanceJudy Collins: Chelsea MorningSinead O’Connor: The Foggy Dew (with The Chieftans) | |
| New Santana Album "Africa Speaks" The first time I listed to Africa Speaks, I had a very strange reaction. The music is incredible. The energy and feeling is incredible. My reaction was this: it took me back to the first time I heard Axis Bold as Love. It isn’t like Axis, it just ... | |
| Billy Cobham Question Billy Cobham fans will enjoy the book called Six Days at Ronnie Scott’s. Gives in depth insight into what makes him tick and full of anecdotes. A good read. | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? There’s a poppy wreath on a soldier’s tomb,There’s a poppy snake in a dressing room.Poppy poison—poppy tourniquet,It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit.The Jungle LineJoni Mitchell | |
| IsoAcoustics GAIA footers: impressions I put the GAIA III under my Dali Mentor 6 floorstanders and the effect was immediate, positive and very audible. Speakers were sitting in thick carpet—too thick for the spikes to penetrate. The GAIAs really clarified the sound and improved the so... | |
| Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement Here’s what I did in my hostile environment (not my main system but to provide sound for a tv). In this case putting two speakers inside a Salamander cabinet with a shelf designed for a sound bar. I have a 2.1 system for television sound, driven b... | |
| Streamers - Cambridge Audio CXN (V2) or Blue Node 2i No experience with bluesound. I have the Cambridge 851n which is similar to the CXN. I listen to internet radio through the Cambridge, and I can also listen to the same internet radio through my Marantz AV8802a. The Cambridge, with its upsampl... | |
| SACD Player--Do you use it and feel you'd replace it if it broke? Had all my CDs ripped to flac (about 400 including 40 SACDs) and thought I’d no longer listen to the discs. Sold my Marantz Player. But I have a Cambridge universal disc player: DSD output to my Marantz AV 8802a that I use as preamp. I find the... | |
| best way to connect tidal HIFI to Cambridge audio azur 851n streamer I have the Cambridge 851n and there is a firmware update to stream Tidal directly. Just wanted to put that out there in case you didn’t know. | |
| Interconnect recomendations, ~$500 new or used, RCA... I’ve tried many lower end (hero, diamondback, etc) and never heard much improvement until I moved to Nordost. I’ve used Heimdall 1s and Heimdalls 2s and Frey 1s. For my money, I’ve stayed with used Frey 1s for all my ICs. Pretty much equal to Heim... | |
| This on usb cables Just yesterday I replaced the stock cable with an AQ Carbon 3 meter to connect my 10TB external hard drive to my Cambridge 851N network player. I was mainly motivated by the need for a longer cable, but I’d been surprised in the past so I thought ... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Master and Commander. One of the last CDs I bought before going all downloads and ripped files. | |
| Reasonable high end interconnects: without breaking the bank I would add three points:1. It ain’t just the cost and the sound, it’s the stiffness too. I’’m a big fan of Acoustic Zen—reasonably priced used and well made. But in my system (housed in a Salamander cabinet) they were just too stiff to make the b... | |
| What’s the best SACD you’ve ever heard? Hands down: Heifetz and Reiner, Brahms/Tchaikovsky. Living Stereo 82876-67896-2jazz—Ben Webster/“Sweets” Edison | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Diamonds and Pearls. But only if the parlor had a decent system! |