twoleftears
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| Your favourite music movie? Henry V, composed by Patrick Doyle.The Red Violin, composed by John Corigliano.These are the only two soundtracks I've gone out and bought on CD. | |
| Best Values In Speakers To Pair With Coincident Frankenstein MKII Monoblocks? I've heard the AN "E" speakers in their most basic incarnation, and they sounded very good indeed. All those "extras" seem to me to follow the law of diminishing returns (mainly more "detail"). Call Deja Vu in Wash DC, who are Audio Note dealers... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? Read this thread to get an accurate picture of current standard of factory support post sale.https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/dc-offset-blocker-killer-where-to-buy-in-the-usa/post?highlight=mcintosh%2Bhum&postid=1692986#1692986 | |
| Pondering a Speaker Upgrade In DC, you've got Deja Vu, Gifted Listener (Centerville), Command Performance, and Evolution Audio. You can hear a really good range of speakers over a couple of days, without spending too much on gas. | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? Who owns McIntosh nowadays? It's not like it used to be.See that recent thread about the guy with the humming integrated, and the factory attitude. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados In my concerto survey, Bortkiewicz's no. 1 on Hyperion struck me particularly favorably (probably more so than any of the other more or less obscure compositions on the CDs that I own of that series).So when I found out that he had composed two mo... | |
| Perception It's called suggestibility. The makers of adverts know all about it. Just a question of planting the seed of doubt, or the seed of lust (for something bigger and better). Different people may have different levels of resistance to it, but I don... | |
| Dealers and exaggerated treble @ctsooner +100. Amen to that. | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? Speaker drivers never change over time. That's why they never need refoaming. | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. I heard the Gamut's under less than ideal show conditions last year at the Capital Audio Fest, and thought they were fabulous. For me, best stand-mount sound at the show. That being said, I seem to remember that there was some pretty impressive ... | |
| What's your definition of analog smell? One that's organic and continuous, and not chopped up into millions of tiny odoremes. | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? Conventional drivers have components made of materials that move, bend, and flex. I can't see how anyone would not think that those materials would have a break-in period. How long that period is, and how big an impact that makes in the grand sc... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados So what do you piano mavens think of Cristina Ortiz?She sounds pretty good to me in the Stenhammar #2 (which, curiously, strikes me as better recorded/engineered than the matching #1). | |
| Amp Recommendations: 2 Ohm Stable, ~300+ watts, and small... D-Sonic perhaps. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Stenhammar #1.If you enjoy Romantic piano concertos, then I can't imagine you not enjoying this outing. |