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| The best acoustic guitar recordings?? Manuel Barrueco Works For Guitar By Albeniz & GranadosThis is the best classical guitar LP I can think of. Amazing performance, and the guitar sounds like a guitar. This LP generated a huge amount of excitement in the classical guitar world... | |
| Listening fatigue Funny, I experienced fatigue just a couple of nights ago for the first time in ages. I was listening to vinyl at a very reasonable volume. "as always, YMMV"I played in bands off and on for years and I would never (now, at least) want to recreate t... | |
| Alvin Lee Not just in Spain--ask Andy Warhol (and many others)A hospital is no place to be if you're sick--or healthy. | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? Csontos, you nailed the problem for club/rock concert music: the live version is often too loud and usually mixed by guys who lost their own hearing decades ago.This part I can attest to: they start by getting the best, loudest drum sounds they ca... | |
| Remastered White Album on vinyl I simply have the Beatles come over and play. I know, it's a tremendous amount of trouble and expense (do you know what a good metaphysicist charges to summon back those who have passed over to the next world?), but it's well worth it. And probabl... | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? Young people are doing the bulk of the buying. They want it loud and exciting, even grossly exaggerated, on both ends (rap is all about the low end in cars and headphones, rock needs to scream as well as thump). Audiophiles are older and mostly (I... | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? Perhaps some newer speakers are designed to sound more like what younger people are used to hearing: headphones--clear to the point of being bright, with much detail. One might say "nothing left to the imagination." I put on 'phones yesterday (som... | |
| Best Bookshelf speaker 1300.00 budget +1 on Proac 1SC, I almost bought a pair years ago. Also Dynaudio 1.3 MkII, which I've had for years. When you can find either of these speakers they are in your budget.That said, you might check either companies' current monitors and see if "newer... | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Pet Sounds, The Inner Mounting Flame, and...?first is Beach Boys, second is Mahavishnu Orchestra.Third could be Abbey Road (or any of several other Beatles albums), Julliard Quartet '62 recording of Bartok 6, Music from Big Pink or The Band, Buffa... | |
| Appropriate RCA cable to go from pre-out to amp? Elizabeth,my one and only "new car" was in 1978, around the time I had a Mac 2300, C-28 and 2 pairs of ML-1 loudspeakers. In those days mainstream audio (and none more mainstream than McIntosh) didn't seem concerned with IC's and such. '78 was als... | |
| DIY cable solution--what are my best options? Thanks, one and all for this helpful information. I will see what I can find out about the wiring/shielding/grounding scheme on the AQ Kingcobra wire. | |
| Anyone tried the original Playstation 1 for CD? Kbuzz, thanks for confirming. I guess I need to get one that is "gently used...?" I'm only paying 20.00 but I'd like to get one that's reliable if such a thing exists.My younger son told me to turn it upside down, a gamer's trick, but it didn't he... | |
| Appropriate RCA cable to go from pre-out to amp? I'm in the same boat--about to replace my integrated amp's jumpers with an IC. I was just reading a thread on another forum in which several people opined that the pre-to-amp connection is the most important and most sensitive. Which is it? and why? | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations +1 for Kat Edmonson | |
| Sudden loss of volume from turntable I have a similar problem (total dropout of one channel or the other) and I'm pretty sure it's the ancient wires from the TT to the phono pre-amp. Will be replacing as soon as I get the wherewithal to do it (some soldering required on mine). |