tomaswv
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| Recs for small footprint integrated amp (<= 14 inches W) min 30 WRMS Son in law has a Rega Brio and it sounds great and has a solid build quality about it. I like it. | |
| Tune of the Day Sonny Stitt, Hairy. From Night Letter. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Guillaume Tourniaire, Orchestra Victoria: Elan—Ballet Music from Operas by Saint-Saens. SACD, Melba Records, 2011. | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? My main system (CDs, ripped files and streaming) about $15K, including $2K for cables. A second system (streaming only) about $4500 including $500 for cables. | |
| What I wish I knew before starting my audiophile journey Interesting thread. What do I wish I had known sooner? 1. You need power to know what’s going on. When I started using 200 watt + amps, things got easier to understand. 2. Cables and tweaks do matter, but not all the time. I remember getting som... | |
| Worth upgrading my cables? Agree on the Morrow cables. I’ve gone from level three to level four and five and have heard improvements at each increase. That said, I think your biggest bang would come from power cable upgrades for your source and preamp. Off topic but the i... | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? My system is on a concrete slab floor with a fairly thick carpet/pad. My components are in a massive salamander cabinet with source components on IsoAcoustic pucks and my preamp and monoblocks on maple plinths. My speakers, Dali Mentor 6s, were on... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? KD Lang Rosanne Cash Mary Chapin Carpenter | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... I’m not a fan of the marketing hype and the constant sales…but that said, the cables sound great and represent solid value for money. In my system they equaled of bettered the Acoustic Zen and Nordost cables they replaced in my humble system. And,... | |
| Which Line Level, Balanced Preamplifier? I am very happy with my Bel Canto Pre5. It is dead quiet, fully balanced, and does everything I need it to do. I think the sound is very neutral and resolving but not analytical. I run Bel Canto monoblocks (500m) but have also used it with an Audi... | |
| Favourite Guitarists my favorite: Gabor Szabo And in no particular order: Grant Green Philip Catherine John McLaughlin John Fahey Mark Knopfler John Scofield And the most underrated: Robbie Robertson | |
| If there was only ONE album/cd/release you can listen to, over and over............. Tomasz Stanko: Suspended Night | |
| Best music in 2022 Jakob Bro et al.: Once around the Room Joshua Redman et al.: Long Gone Collegium 1704, Vaclav Lukas: Smetana—Ma Vlast | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Marie Stockmarr Becker and Ilaria Macedonia: J S Bach Sonatas for Viola (da Gamba) and Harpsichord. Channel Classics Records, 2021. Very well recorded. the Viola is a palpable presence in the room, as they say. | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time Impressive lists. I agree: Leonard Cohen, no one else even close. But I’m shocked no one has mentioned Mary Chaplin Carpenter. |