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| Vintage tube preamps: CJ or ARC? If you find one, the C-J PV11 is outstanding they go for about 500-800 used. | |
| are your kids interested I have one kid, a son, who is now 21. At aboaut 17 or so he finally began to see/hear what I was into and since then we can talk about stereo/2 channel only, for hours. He likes a lot more power and bass while I prefer the highs/treble and not bei... | |
| Purcell in Pride and Prejudice rent the movie and look up the credits at the end it usually gives all the music used, that will at least give you a start | |
| THE POINT SYSTEM OF WAF. thank you, it is always great to start the day with a good laugh. thanks | |
| Amateur inherited an audio system... Some thoughts for you. Listena to the system. Then see what happens by putting some lesser quality piece in it do you notice any differance and do you care. If you do not care about the change sell the piece. If you do you are on your way to keepi... | |
| Help me shorten my list... I have not had the pleasure(?) of listening to most on your list, but I did listen to some Usher, while demoing a Door's CD. If you are familitar with Jim Morrison's voice than that line may not be for you, the crossover is in the male range and r... | |
| IC's between Power Amp and Pre Amp I have had good luck with Z-squared via auctions on the 'gon and have really enjoyed them and still do | |
| Diff in recording/reproduction in Analog/CD/SACD My favorite description of the difference between analogue and digital is that Analogue is as approximate to perfections as it getsDigital is the perfection of the approximationOr there is always something lost in translation | |
| Joan Baez - Do I just not get it? The only album that ever won me over to her was "Diamonds and Rust" otherwise I agree with you and grew up in the 60's. By the way that album, like Carol King's "Tapestry" and Joni Mitchel's "Blue" were written either about or after breakups with ... | |
| follow up to My thought is if it seems reasonable to you it never hurts to ask, the worst they can say is NO, in which case you are no worse off. Try it, who knows what they will do for a sale. On a set of speakers that retails for 7.2k, I was offered a 1k dro... | |
| Good MONO recordings One of my absolute favorites is Toscaninni doing Respighi's the Pines of Rome. His opening movement has done more to make it lifelike and jump out of the speakers than anyone else's. There have been better recording, more audiophile but for sheer ... | |
| best high sensitivity full range speak under 15k I recently acquired the Legacy Focus 20/20, retail about 7K with their top veneer. I had it hooked up to an Audio Aero Captiole 50 watt class A amp and it did wonders. I am not sure it could be bettered but am looking just in case. It goes down to... | |
| Sinatra question Some good Sinatra recordings from the early 50's to 1960 are found on a CD "Frank Sinatra sings the Select COle Porter"My all time favorite is the first concept album ever done"In the Wee Small Hours" recorded in 1955, great albumAlso check out ea... | |
| Power conditioning: APS, Eclipse, Velocitor, or ? May I suggest looking up Sound Applications, I have their XE-12, it has 12 outlets, six for digital and six for analogue. It also has surge protection. Check them out at soundapplications.com | |
| SACD is it worth it? People have been claiming the death of vinyl for decades. They are not claiming the end of hi-rez.The market decides. For myself, I heard a Diana Krall CD and then listened to the same on SACD. There was no contest; context, texture, content it wa... |