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| Tax time No Cornfedboy you are Right ON!! I have debated your point with myself for a long time. Put the money in the "savings account" and get the "refund" or minimize the amount I have to pay during the year, let the money do some work for me and pay Unc... | |
| If you knew then, what you know now... What I really know now after moving 9 years ago into my present environment is how very very important a good room is. Components aside, the room can be the most important component in making even a modest system magical. It is going to be my next... | |
| Tax time I just do it. It is easier to just do it and ask for forgiveness than ask for permission and get a NO "what do you need that for, please, not again"!! Besides my wife recognizes my compulsive tendencies as well as my love of music and realizes tha... | |
| New Stereophile recommended list Sorry Tubeperson, I may have been "politically incorrect" is assuming you were a guy. | |
| New Stereophile recommended list If a new product comes along that is so superior to all others regardless of price why does Stereophile feel the need to create a A+ category? Why not put it in A and put the lesser components in B? This rating system has become an absolute joke I... | |
| BEST brand for Classical Recordings? I'm with Detlof all the way on his recommendations and also agree to be careful of Duetsch Grammophone recordings so far as quality of the recordings, not too many good ones on vinyl although many excellent performances to answer Jorge. Some of th... | |
| Vocalists/Musicians Wasting Their Talent Nonjker I think you summed it up. Too many. There is little in the music scene today that I would categorize as cutting edge. Basically a rehash of something previously done and in my opinion some things better left not started. And so far as Char... | |
| Top Ten Tube PreAmp of all time? Kublakhan Call Leonard at ARC (763) 577-9700 for upgrade info. I would also speak with Steve Huntley of http://www.greatnorthernsound.com phone 651-578-0657. Used to work for ARC and does mods. He would be throughly familiar with the differences a... | |
| Coltrane. Can we talk? Jay yeah some of Coltrane does move me and that is the point. There is more to his music than one might initially realize but some of it is so far out there. Sometimes music hits you like a thunderbolt and then you arrive. A moment of consciousnes... | |
| Coltrane. Can we talk? I just love you Coltrane guys. I am working on him but haven't arrived as of yet but I won't give up. Same with Schoenberg. I just haven't "gotten it"....yet. | |
| Jazz at the Pawnshop I have both the FIM XRCD and original vinyl. I'm with Cornfedboy and Gregm, the vinyl is clearly better to me. But the CD isn't going to leave you wanting so long as you don't listen to the vinyl. Its that ambience and timbres as Gregm notes above. | |
| Remote control for Turntable? Thanks Kublakhanpics you have made my "laugh of the day" Will | |
| absolute best component you ever owned I hope the best "component" I ever owned is the one upcoming, a new dedicated listening room I plan on building within the year. I am no equipment horse and have had fewer pieces of components over the years than many here so my experience with di... | |
| Music for "Tough Times" Good post Craig. Treyhoss and Danvetc especially "To Our Children's Children Children" how about Floating? Gotta put a smile on your face. There are many pieces of music that really fit into different moods. I think the piece that would trancend a... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Albert I also "Dig Bill Evans" May I recommend the JVC XRCD recordings of many of his works. For sonics with a real live sound James Welch Razamatazz albums on Wilson Recordings are among the best you'll find. Ragtime music on an upright grand pia... |