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| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? But @Frogman- you have an advantage in that you know the range and color of the full orchestra at "full frequency bandwidth" for real, so you don’t need easy cues to assess home reproduction. You are also exposed to the real thing more than most p... | |
| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? I also listen to the hammer strike, the initial overtones, and their decay. Instructive in terms of how the system handles the whole sonic envelope, not just wide frequency range. I’ve had a couple very good pianos, including a vintage Bosendorfer... | |
| About users with hidden agendas @jjss49 said: "[S]o a word to the wise here, especially newbies, please beware when folks here are trying to ’help’ you by recommending x-y-z, be it equipment, tweaks, cables, fuses ... sometimes they are actually helping themselves even though i... | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... @sbank: Spencer it is this album The smoke you see is my brain frying-- does your head get hot when you think? :) regards, PS: Ken Golden turned me onto this record. | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... @condosound -sorry to disappoint, but I'm not an active musician. Retired copyright lawyer from NYC, now living in Austin where I teach and write (about music, among other things). Thanks for asking. Bill | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... She is/was wonderful. Another singer who still remains below the radar is Googie Coppola. The album is Air by the band of the same name. It was reissued a few years ago, and though some aspects of the original pressing are better the reissue is ve... | |
| Is High End Audio catchin' up with you all? Good one! Thanks for that. | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Buy what you like. At a certain point, the level of performance will only be revealed in direct comparisons. The Technics is still a player- I have an SP-10 that I bought new in 1973 or thereabouts, and it is performing yeoman's duty in a vintage ... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” "Spooky real" is as good a descriptor as any. My observations on the subject: the source material plays a huge role in the sonic outcome. Thus, the audiophile curse of listening to "good" records, limiting oneself if there is music beyond the p... | |
| Why spend more than $25 per piece of equipment on vibration reduction? I have a 250 lb turntable assembly that required a Minus K in an old wooden (restored) period Victorian. It was essential to eliminate footfalls. I don't think this could have been done on the cheap. I had a structural engineer look at it before I... | |
| Headstone I'm planning on a full Viking send off with the burning pyre on a boat launched to the sound of Steppenwolf. Of course, my corpse will be wearing a horned helmet. I keep getting these solicitations from a local crematorium. Like "buy now," "it's... | |
| LP Vinyl: Quality, Pressing, Label, Weight, Where to Buy ??? I buy from a range of vendors all over the world. Much of what I enjoy is interesting jazz from the period right after the ’60s. There developed more spoken word (Gil Scott-Heron), soul jazz (The Visitors- a/k/a the Grubbs outta Philly) and so-cal... | |
| Is DSP room correction worth it with a high end analog system? I have a fairly "purist" analog system from front end-tubes-tubes-tubes (SET) to horns. No X-0ver on mid horns, fed by Lamm ML2, along with woofers, not subs, run from an integrated plate amp. I run a parallel system at 55hz down (24 db/oct. roll... | |
| High end turntables I think high end turntable comparisons are hard to come by, unless you have a very accommodating, connected dealer or access to someone who owns several high end turntables. I compared a Kuzma Reference Triplanar arm with new Lyra Titan i to a Kuz... | |
| Allnic h-3000 power supply issue Frankly, I should have suggested you check the fuse. As to power cords, try several and see what you like. There is something to be said for "same cable" throughout a system, though that means you could miss by a mile too. I found very little ben... |