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| What is a good intro to "Mahler"? I'm a Mahler fanatic, which makes this question doubly hard to answer.My absolute favorite Mahler symphony is the 9th. It is very personal and beautiful, but lengthy and maybe not the best "starter".#1 and #4 are more accessible as "starters". But... | |
| Musical Fidelity repair San Francisco Stereo is the Musical Fidelity authorized dealer in the Bay Area. They have a store in Berkeley you can call about authorized service. | |
| Musical Fidelity A324 DAC as good as Tellig says? I love mine. It was a dramatic improvement in my system. Great price too! | |
| Advice on DAC/upsampler I have the Musical Fidelity AC3-24 and am completely satisfied with it. You can definitely hear the improvement whether you choose 96 or 192K upsampling. It gets better the more time you can burn it in.Make sure you negotiate a reasonable return p... | |
| Cartridge for Rega Planar 3 / RB300 I have the same turntable and arm. I love the Grado Sonata which I've coupled with the Creek OBH-8SE. I listen primarily to classical and the sound is very sweet. But I also listen to loud rock, and this combo serves that very well too. They are b... | |
| Music to die to The last movement of Mahler's 9th Symphony. | |
| What's your favorite album cover art ? Cream "Disraeli Gears"Beatles "Sgt Peppers"Cars "Candy-O" | |
| Dedicated Power Lines - How to? Outlier,I live in South San Francisco also and just had dedicated lines installed in my house. I can give you the name and number of the electrician who did it for me once I get home tonight. I'll give you the info via e-mail.Cheers,Bill | |
| HDCD: What do you like? The latest Crosby Stills Nash and Young cd "Looking Forward" is recorded in hdcd. The vocals are absolutely stunning! | |
| Pioneer DV 47-A DVD-A output analogue only The recording industry does not want an audio multi-channel digital output which would allow recording. I went through all this recently when I was considering this unit. I would have to buy a new processor with multi-channel analog inputs plus al... | |
| Digital Audio Cables: Wire or Optical Go with the coaxial cable. This gives you much better sound. | |
| What group do you wish would be remastered? The Beatles and the Jefferson Airplane. | |
| Component Video versus S-Video Avguygeorge, thanks! Duh, what was I thinking? This saves me a lot of bucks.What do you think of the new Adcom GTP-830? I've seen it at around $1200 and less. The reason I'm looking at this model is that it has multiple 6-channel analog inputs in ... | |
| Pioneer Elite DV-47A This is supposed to be an excellent unit. I was considering buying it but was a little unclear on the connections. It turns out that in order to listen to the real multi-channel SACD and DVD-Audio, you have to have a processor with multiple sets o... | |
| Any reasonably priced line doublers? Thanks guys. I guess I need to hold off on this idea until I get an HDTV model. Currently I have a Mitsubishi 35" direct view tube TV. I have it connected to satellite and DVD with the new Tara Labs RSC S-video cables. The picture is beautiful, es... |