twoleftears
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| Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’ Here's something that I don't see addressed nearly frequently enough.The optimal humidity level in the listening room. The humidity % is evidently going to affect all the components, large and small, in the system, as well as the air through whic... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling Which leads us back full circle to the Duelund tinned copper in cotton.Is the red stuff a DIY version of what Anti-Cables does? | |
| Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's... The @+username feature only works about 1/3rd of the time. There is always a limited number of names offered in the drop-down menu when you hit @, and often the person to whom you're trying to respond isn't listed there. One of the glitches of t... | |
| Help me build my system - amp for b and w 705 s2. Find a good, used Marantz PM-KI Ruby. All your problems solved. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Stephen Hough, Brahms, Op. 116-119. Wonderful. | |
| Raven Osprey vs Octave 110 with low sensitivity speakers @davidantonio Have you checked his system page to see what brand of amp he actually owns??? | |
| Biographies Eugen d'Albert only managed six wives. What an underachiever! But in good company with Henry VIII.https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/did-you-hear-about-the-six-wives-of-eugen-dalbert/ | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados The Buniatishvili phenomenon is quite interesting. I searched professional reviews of the Schubert disc, and just about all the critics disliked it or struggled to say something nice about it.On Amazon it has something like 175 reviews, and 95% o... | |
| DVD player playing CD's Think of the price of a DVD player you're considering. Now think of all the video circuitry going into it. Now think of a similarly priced CD player, and think of what isn't included in it.The best thing is to use the DVD player as a transport a... | |
| Own Magnepans? Got Cats? Vandersteen 1, 2, 3, aka scratching posts. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Listening to Buniatishvili's Schubert disc: Sonata D 960, Impromptus D 899 capped with the delicious Liszt Standchen transcription.I am entranced by her playing. Rermarkable lyricism and delicacy in the p and pp passages.The piano sound is intere... | |
| Jazz for aficionados This is a useful article.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_(flamenco) You will find tango mentioned in one of the subsections.BTW in Spanish "compas" covers meanings such as beat, bar, tempo, and time signature. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I enjoy exploring repertoire off the beaten track.Last night was a disc of Lyadov's piano music.Tonight is a disc of Eugen d'Albert's piano music. What a biography! Look him up for an interesting read... | |
| Anyone try stuffing their ports? The anthropomorphic features of loudspeakers were explored recently in another thread. | |
| Suggestions for New CD Player There are many excellent reasons still to buy a one-box CDP in this day and age. Anyone with a modicum of imagination could grasp that.If you weren't budget-limited, the Marantz SA-KI Ruby would be by far the best recommendation, and one I'm sure... |