tomaswv
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| How Long Did It Take You To Build Your Dream Setup? Had a pretty good vinyl system in the 70s and then nothing til I started up again in 2004. Started small and kept upgrading components. Eventually got to components that felt fairly permanent. Now it sorta feels like I’d have to start over at a mu... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s 4th. A beautiful recording on SACD. I’m listening Via Qobuz 24/192. Second movement is so engaging and the piccolo in the 3rd movement is fantastic. Also contains a sublime double concerto for clarinet... | |
| Failed to enqueue. Any ideas? Will do so...next time my son in law is over. Thanks again. | |
| Failed to enqueue. Any ideas? We have a winner! Your suggestion worked. I had reset the router, but when I did so I probably left the 851N either powered up or on standby, the the “handshake” may have been old. Just now I unplugged both the router and the 851n at the same tim... | |
| Sandy Gross is retiring. And of Definitive Technology. | |
| Cambridge Audio products unreliable/unsupported? I have a very low tolerance for unreliable equipment, but I have been happy in the whole with Cambridge. I have a BD650 universal disk player that I have had for maybe ten years. Never had an issue. I use it now to play SACD (DSD over HDMI). And ... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world Leon Russell: Leon Russell and the Shelter People | |
| The System Percentages Thread I’ve been keeping a percentage table for years. Results have stayed pretty consistent despite fairly constant changes and upgrades. I call my system a mid-go stereo system that is 90% music 10% television. Which translates into a percentage for pr... | |
| Hunt for new floor standers I love my Dali Mentor 6 floorstanders and I’m amazed that you can get them used for well less that $2K. Lots of bass, detailed but not shrill at all. The newer Rubicon 6s are one step closer to the Epicon series that first got me interested in Dal... | |
| John Prine Most underrated songwriter ever. Wish him all the best. | |
| 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... |