whart
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| Kind of Blue SACD on a whim. @n80-jazz, perhaps more than any other type of music, affords you the ability to explore based on the performers. Many of the sidemen who worked on albums for a featured performer appear either as featured artists or sidemen on other recordings, s... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice @dkidknow - I think the biggest limitation may be that you are likely sharing power, or at least ground, with other units. I've never done a room in a coop or multi-unit building but only in single family houses. The dedicated lines give you some ... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice Depending on where you live, the applicable code will indicate whether you need a permit. I chose to use a commercial electrician to do the work, based on positive experience with that electrician doing other work here. @Jea48 is very knowledgeabl... | |
| Surge protectors and power conditioners - Good idea or bad? Whole house Type II (at the panel, not the service entrance) and a large (10kVa) iso transformer with additional surge protection that feeds the sub panel for the system. Texas can get some big-assed storms, though Austin seems to be in a semi-pro... | |
| Newbie to Vinyl Seeks Tips Man, where to start without sounding patronizing or condescending? You will quickly have more money tied up in records than equipment if you get the bug, and a lot of desirable records are not new and you can’t buy them on Amazon, but have to hunt... | |
| Tonearms that work well with better Koetsu stone body cartridges Not that you are going to go out and buy one, but the stone bodies work really well on my Kuzma Airline linear tracker. Yes, the arm has high horizontal but not vertical mass, though according to Franc, the design should not cause undue stress on ... | |
| What To Replace A Pair Of Lamm Ml2 Monoblocks With? Need More Power I know these threads about suggested gear tend to be all over the place, so I’ll ask: Has anyone used the Vandy with Ken Stevens’ amps? He makes a stereo version that isn’t crazy money, probably within the zone of the Lamm’s value used, pricewise,... | |
| What To Replace A Pair Of Lamm Ml2 Monoblocks With? Need More Power I have the Lamm ML2 and having been using them with a pair of Avantgarde Duos I bought new circa 2006-7 (225 woofer model). I’m in a similar boat to you in that these amps bring something special to music but one is limited to very high sensitivit... | |
| Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound? @jyprez- this "thing of ours" is very gear-centric and about sound. Ideally, it should be in service of the music, but I know there were times that I got caught in the web of listening for sonic spectacularity, it's a trap in some ways if one conf... | |
| Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound? @mijostyn--don’t listen to Ornette C. much- the record I have to hand featuring him is like 4 people playing 5 different songs simultaneously, but I can look at some of his other works, along with Mr. Threadgill (same last name as a old time club ... | |
| Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound? I lost my interest in mainstream jazz a while ago, but got turned on to so-called spiritual jazz a few years ago, starting with the Strata-East catalog- some amazing stuff there, and a lot of what I listen to and chase these days are in this more ... | |
| How loud are you typically listening? 80db C weighted is pretty loud for me, I have the headroom to play much louder, depending on the recording, but rarely do so; in fact, much of my listening is done at even lower levels. But it takes some gain to energize the room, which is large. ... | |
| I just bought a Steinway which sounds like a banjo. I think piano must be pretty difficult to record well. Either it sounds too close or too small and many recordings don’t convey the gravitas of a full sized concert piano in the low registers or the "air" around the notes in the higher registers. ... | |
| New-ish to Audiogon Forums... Is it always like this? I think an open ended question like recommendations for a new piece of gear is an invitation for people to chime in with their favorites, wish list items or in some cases, what they own. There are some deep pockets of knowledge here, depending on ... | |
| Power cables for AvantGarde speakers I’ve owned Duos for a long time (with the 225 sub). The trick in my estimation is to get the sub to cohere with the midhorn; that often leaves you with a somewhat bass shy performance. Push the integrated woofers harder and they sound discontinuou... |