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| Best Female Rock Group For a sister act with a quite unique home grown blend, I always liked "The Roches". None have great voices but together their sound is original and their harmonies often hauntingly beautiful. | |
| 20th Century Composers Sugarbrie - I'm with you on all your choices. I would like to add a few that are conspiciously missing:Jean SibeliusClaude Debussy (could be considered 19th Century but a truly influential and original composer of the modern era)Maurice Ravel (amo... | |
| Best amp for 5k used? SS or Tube Lordgorian, an error in my above post, the Berning idles at 100 watts not 70. 300 watts at full power. | |
| Best amp for 5k used? SS or Tube Lordgorian another tube amp to consider is the Berning zh270. It idles at 70 watts, does NOT have a transformer but uses an impedance converter which is patented. This allows it to be used into low impedance loads where most tubes amps typically s... | |
| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time Did anyone mention the Monkees? Oh yeah, someone did. When I look at this list of choices I just gotta say...folks there is no denying we are living in "The Age of Mediocrity"...that is the music over the past 40-50 years. I mean come on, one hit ... | |
| Amp recommendations for Merlin VSM / TSM If I had my druthers I would own both a Berning zh270 and a pair of Joule Grand Marquis or maybe Atma-sphere M60's and stop fretting over the right choice :) Own the Berning and love it for many reasons which have been well documented on Agon over... | |
| Best sound at Stereophile show. Rwd- Talk about 20 year old speakers. I heard a pair of highly tweeked Infinity 4.5's and IRS Series 5. Thanks Bill Legal of MillerSound. Can you believe that Bill has 2 pair of the IRS 5's!! I must say the 5's were the best sound I heard on this ... | |
| Amps get all the thunder, what about preamps? I third the CAT, very tough to beat in this price range used. I would also consider the Counterpoint SA-11 and the ARC SP-10 Mk2 a wonderfully musical full range pre-amp. To my ears their absolute best effort along with the LS-5, no phono stage wi... | |
| What group do you wish would be remastered? Audiotomb I'm with you on Fairport. Probably few care about this one but I would LOVE to hear Sarah Vaughn's "With Voices" remastered. Even though she isn't a group. I really dig that album and the 3 copies I have on vinyl are all terrible. I woul... | |
| Personal amp evolution Oh I forgot this one and Tireguy, you are too young to remember so don't laugh, Mom and Dad's Zenith Console "The quality goes in before the name goes on" bought from our next door neighbor who was a distribution salesman for Zenith. It was a good... | |
| Luminous Audio Synchestra Sig. vs. AZ Silver Ref? Hi OzzyI think I should expand on my comments on the Luminous. I have listened to numerous cables in various combinations over the past year or so. There are always subtle differences at best between cables and they are certainly system dependent.... | |
| Luminous Audio Synchestra Sig. vs. AZ Silver Ref? I can't comment on the AZ. Indeed it must be system dependent Ozzy as I find the Signature, which is copper, extraordinary at the balancing act of effortlessly allowing all the musical detail to come through while maintaining warmth. They proved s... | |
| It's a Bad Movie, But It Was Fun to Watch Anyway "Reefer Madness" doesn't classify as a movie but it sure is fun to watch. A bad propaganda film from the late 30's that probably had great impact on the mainstream youth of the time. A comic satire, by today's standards, tragedy illustrating the r... | |
| It's a Bad Movie, But It Was Fun to Watch Anyway I 4th the Ed Wood movies. Plan 9 From Outer Space from the 50's has got to be the absolute worst film ever made. Anyone not familiar with it rent it and tell me it isn't the worst. You and your kids will LOL at the silly props and dialogue. For th... | |
| Law of Diminishing Returns; where does it kick in? In the real world it is the point you can't afford or are unwilling to pay for a subjectively minimal improvement. Of course this will vary from one individual to the next as noted. Hanging around this site ensures acceleration of this progressive... |