xiekitchen
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| Speakers to mate with McIntosh gear Markd51:I'm with you on the JBL's. There's just nothing like that effortless sense of impact with those Alnico 4" voicecoiled 15" jobs. What I have found very helpful in taming the JBL's is using a fairly high quality 5 band fully parametric eq li... | |
| High end amp - my last step With that kind of dough.. Goldmund, FM acoustics, Tube Research Labs maybe?? wish I had that problem. | |
| Small quality HiFi subs reaching 22Hz You are describing the Rega Vulcan..developed in partnership with REL, I believe.. no longer available I'm told. It won't play super loud but it goes pretty deep for a 8" driver. | |
| Do they make Speakers For Rap/Rock Hey Bigjoe,That's too funny -- the Pimp Daddy! How about if those 18" woofs somehow rotate, like "spinner" rims? Do a search on Ricky Smiley and "spinners". Put some of that "rope" lighting around the mounting bracket of the woofers. | |
| The best "no fuss" turntable for $5K or less? I really like my rega p-9, pretty much level it and forget about it. | |
| Do they make Speakers For Rap/Rock For RAP: Probably those wedge-shaped back-seat or trunk car speaker enclosures with two of those fat-surround 12-inch woofers crossed over to some piezio-electric horns. Should provide plenty of one-note bass centered around 85-100 hz. and lots of... | |
| Do Audiophiles really like music? I'd like to point out another aspect of the landscape, record (or cd) collecting... in addition to a love of the equipment and the reproduction of music, some of us are nuts about record collecting as well. This pressing vs. that pressing, importe... | |
| Best Jazz Albums Can't say I agree with his picks for "best of the decade". Not one of Miles' comeback titles in the 80's?? for best of the 70's he picks Weather Report's "I sing the body electric"... my LEAST favorite Weather Report (after Mr. Gone) recording. No... | |
| musical drummers...who are they ??? for rock, Bill Bruford is at my top of the list "One of a Kind".Also Pierre Moelen of Gong "Expresso" or "Expresso II" not generally recognized. My all time favorite drummer is Jack Dejohnette.. the abstract expressionist of the ecm label.. to say... | |
| Help needed with Proac 1SC setup I have heard Proac 1SC on several occasions (only with tubes) and they sounded great... in no way do I remember them as lacking dimensionality, boomy, or harsh.. also proacs do take a long time for the tweeter to burn in, I'm told. | |
| Window Treatments to Remove reflected sound Marigo window tuning "dots". check for these at www.amusicdirect.com | |
| Manhattan vinyl shops SirSpeedy:Princeton record exhange was my record store for the 16 yrs. I lived in Jersey. Always loved finding mint Japanese pressings for oh, maybe 8 or 9 bucks... | |
| How many audio systems do you have in your home? Three: Split level home with "upstairs" digital based system mostly rega with ensemble speakers and Magnum dynalab tuner and Nak special edition cassette deck 1."Downstairs" is (supposed to be) more serious analog LP system. I currently have 3 pai... | |
| Did I really need a sub woffer in the first place? Some folks have some good points here.. first, Rotel is good BUT.. a really great pre and power amp, or a passive pre and a high end power amp could really surprise you with bass improvements. Of course that avenue is not cheap. Also as Chazzbo st... | |
| Spanish Guitar music You purists will hang me for this, but...anyone a fan of Jorge Struntz? of Struntz and Farah, formerly with Caldera in the 70's. Struntz is from Central America and a really hot player.Hey how about old Al dimeola on some of his later 1980's recor... |