whart
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| Analog vs Digital Confusion DcTom: if you are a young late 50's (or even early 60's) kinda guy, we are roughly the same age. Love your table, too :) Yeah, so many albums, so little time. But, now that I have the time, I'm really enjoying the process of discovery. And, I love... | |
| Massed strings and large choral groups Frogman, do you sing in a choir or play an instrument? You said you took part in a Mahler performance..... | |
| Massed strings and large choral groups I think, as Frogman has said, massed anything is demanding, both because you need the ability to separate out the parts and follow them, and because there's often a lot of dynamic demands. But, these only cover certain attributes. I find that gett... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion One of the joys of vinyl for me is discovering, or rediscovering older records I own but either haven't listened to in decades or never knew I had. A few examples:On my way to looking for something else, I found a very nice 6-eye of Take Five. I k... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion I was trying to avoid the endless debate here over which is better in any absolute sense, and attempting to address the questions of a possible new entrant into vinyl as to what to expect. We could fight endlessly over the digital v analog debate,... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion I think all these opinions are fair expressions of people's experience. One of the concerns I always have when people ask me about entering into vinyl is whether they will get a true picture of what a vinyl front end is capable of on a modest budg... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion It may be helpful to divide the vinyl universe into two rough camps: the dyed-in-the-wool all analog brigade, which is one of the reasons so many of the pricey 'audiophile' reissues are of old records. This also includes the fact that many of thos... | |
| Stereophile Class A tables The biggest problem I have with those compilations in Stereophile is that they are based on a range of individual reviews, some of which are dated, and don't represent actual comparisons of equipment, so any one category can represent a variety of... | |
| Tannoy Westminister Royal SE Pre-amp Preference? I used electrostats pretty much exclusively from around 1973, until I switched to horns (Avantgardes) in around 2006. The amp change sounds right to me; on the preamp, I think it's all about synergy, why not try the Ref 5 for a while, and see how ... | |
| Avantgarde Trios too loud with my amps Agreed re gain, not power of amp, but the Lamm SET/AvG combo is special in my experience. (And yes, I have used other amps with the AvG as well). A pair of used ML 2.1 are probably in the neighborhood of 13k dollars US from an authorized dealer, a... | |
| Avantgarde Trios too loud with my amps I rarely recommend what I personally use, but the Lamm SET amps are very synergistic with the Avantgardes and will allow you to hear why both products are highly regarded. You should probably get some help from some one who knows the speaker in se... | |
| Can anyone explain cable risers? When you guys say 'dress' the cables, I use that term to mean a way of routing the wires so they don't cross or run parallel to each other, and keep the power cables away from the low level signal cables. That's what I use these things for. Syntax... | |
| Enter The Raven The GT and 10.5 Actureus: Take a look at Kuzma's site: http://www.kuzma.si/He shows a new Stabi M priced at 15~k Euro which he is going to be showing at CES. I had the impression that all models he released are still in production which is pretty amazing. I have ... | |
| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please I respect the willingness of various posters here to offer suggestions and sonic descriptions, but, at the risk of repeating myself, so much is about synergy with the rest of the system, once the basics are nailed down, and dependent on the listen... | |
| Quad 57' system upgrade suggestions requested What do you perceive the shortcomings of your current system to be? You are committed to a vintage speaker array but want to upgrade all else, and I'm curious to know where you want improvements. As you know, I have old Quads, Decca ribbons , and ... |