xiekitchen
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| Vintage speakers from the 70's and 80's Sonab, yeah! haven't heard those in a while.. fooled around with a pair for a bit...ALSO: Epicure model 20 or the very rare (now) Epicure model 3 from circa 1979... ALSO: Allison model oneditto stacked advents, ADS 810Instead of JBL L-100's, JBL L... | |
| Haitian Divorce lyrics That song is sooooo cooooolll. Everything about it is so carefully placed tongue in cheek, encoded, Love the slight Reggae/vibes/vocorder arrangement... I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they were writing this, the creative pr... | |
| Billy Cobham's Spectrum Spectrum is an AWESOME album!I still have the original U.S. pressing (LP)on Atlantic from mid 70's... best sound IMHO... I also have a German pressing which is clean, but lacks some minute spacial details and sense of image depth.Get an old Atlant... | |
| REAL WORLD OPINION - ADCOM 555 ii vs BRYSTON 4B I have heard both amps, go with the Bryston. Build quality is high and reputation is high for longevity... also sounds better, less grain and hash. | |
| Older Altec horn speakers The JBL L-65 Jubal is probably around 93 db per watt at 1 M... the 78 db figure is from 15 feet away. | |
| 125 watt or 80 watt? I'm not going to be of much help but I do own a pair of Snell E's, they are great speakers for the money, hope you hold on to them.. they can benefit from the best amps but are really easy speakers to drive and live with.. I think you can do bette... | |
| Matching Bookshelf Speakers for Rega Mira 3 amp Ditto on the R1 with the Mira.. using that combo now in one of my systems | |
| Older Altec horn speakers Altec 19 ... when I heard them I was a teenager, they were fantastic in a very large space... circa mid 70's.Altec 19 was home version of VOT without the front horn loading of woofer. | |
| Are Harbeths really "all that?" I was wondering about them too.. I mean they are OUTRAGEOUSLY priced for what you get (or so it appears to me) and what, the similiar Spendor configurations are about half priced? | |
| Room Treatment: Whatcha Got? I have a bunch of corner tunes, one in each corner and these really do work and you can hear the difference/it is better with them.. this is one tweek that has worked for me. | |
| what are your five essential songs I could pick 100 essential 'songs' but not 5.. let me just narrow down to one specific category, 5 essential 1970's Jazz Fusion cuts:1. Stanley Clarke - School Days title cut2. Weather Report - A Remark You Made3. Billy Cobham - Stratus4. Return t... | |
| Any great Cardas power cords? You want to try the Cardas GOLDEN.. this is the one to get.. not too expensive used, sounds great.. fullbodied, detailed, more of everything.. no constraints.. I had another Cardas power cord, the Quadlink, and that was completely different, didn'... | |
| Porter Port WHAT DO U THINK? I went from a stock Hubble port to the Porter Ports and... can't say I remember anything too drastic but it seemed dynamics or shades of detail in the dynamics improved just a bit... (I get a similiar result just after cleaning every connection wi... | |
| Bookshelf Speaker for vintage Marantz 2230 I had a 2230 circa 1972. I had a pair of Epicure 10's and they sounded great up against the wall on bookshelves with the Marantz 2230. A friend of mine in high school back in 1978 bought a brand new Marantz 2285 and pair of Epicure 20's, this syst... | |
| Indian Music? A big SECOND to "Meeting by the River" Water Lily is an excellent label and sound is excellent on this...check any SHAKTI recording with John Mclaughlin.. best ones are from late 70's "Natural Elements". Second on anything Zakir Hussian. |