zaikesman
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| Unheralded Sideman Although I can't fault your picks, I don't really consider members of steady bands - whether operating under the name of their leader or not - to be sidemen. I mean, Keith Richards may write a lot of the songs, but he's on record as saying that if... | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona Just curious, Telemoli: Did you find that the Amatis had any advantage over the Cremonas regardless of price (other than maybe the ability to go louder)? Of course, I could just go listen to these at a place 15 minutes from my house, but not being... | |
| Cueing it up... Well, if you're using the lead-in groove or between-track spaces, I guess it wouldn't really matter either way. But I often do cue up with the record stopped, if for no other reason than because if someone crashes their car outside my window and m... | |
| Nick Cave fans? I heard his version of "Oops..." on NPR's Fresh Air - pretty funny. I'll never be the world's biggest Thompson fan, but I do enjoy the very early (late 60's) Fairport Convention (his original band). (BTW, anyone into his brand of rock electric gui... | |
| Men & Women & Bass Yeah, this makes me feel like puking too, but that's because of the (lack of) *quality* of the bass, not the *quantity*. (In fact, that same description always seems to apply to the music too, come to think of it. :-) | |
| Preamps for dummies that would be me OK, let's try again...About what Gs5556 said:CDP's and DAC's have steep HF filters kicking in at around 20KHz to reconstruct the analog signal and keep HF digital artifacts at bay. In contrast, any competent active preamp will have its upper -3dB ... | |
| Willing to be proved wrong. I own a Technics SL-1200, and while I like it fine and it might well be better than what you've got now, I'm not going to tell you that you should get one. But I will say that you can probably do a lot better, for not a lot of money, than getting ... | |
| HELP Electrocompaniet stole Christmas Didn't notice that the thead was temporarily closed if it was, but I'm glad it's not now - that would be as irresponsible at this stage as what the distributor did. Fingers still crossed... | |
| Preamps for dummies that would be me There sure is some silly stuff being flung around here. I had just about completed writing a detailed rebuttal to it all, when my 'puter froze up and I lost everything. Right now I don't have the heart to start over again, so I'll just say for the... | |
| grainy sounding high end system Redwoodgarden, I think you meant 2002, not 2000. Agreed that this could not be a "good sign" for Dunlavy fans or audiophiles in general, but the fact doesn't carry any implications with it about the sound of past Dunlavy products like Dazzdax's sp... | |
| Review: Vienna Acoustics Mahler Speaker Thanks for the detailed and enjoyable review, I really like your perspective on things. I have only heard the Mahlers briefly in a shop, driven by Levinson 33H mono's, and was extremely impressed. In fact, even given that short exposure, I found m... | |
| Review: Pass Labs X-350 Amplifier It was a pleasure to read your beautifully written article. Yours looks like a very enjoyable system (I've always loved Maggies, but doubt I've ever heard them driven as well as yours must now be), and located on a ranch yet - great combo for envi... | |
| Review: Philips CD-880 CD Player Interesting review subject and subsequent posts. What a concept - vintage digital! My first players were the original Mission, then the Philips 650 (not sure about model numbers?). Can't say I miss 'em, though. Current rig is a Theta Pearl/Basic I... | |
| HELP Electrocompaniet stole Christmas Onhwy61, I have reread your post of 1/1, and see nothing there to ameliorate my impressions of your positions on this matter, but you of course have your right to your opinions. What you basically say is that Mr. Warshaw doesn't strike you as bein... | |
| Nick Cave fans? I was a Birthday Party fan (his original band back in the 80's, for those of you who only know him from his solo career). His stuff since then has mostly not been to my tastes. I liked him better trying to be a post-punk Jim Morrison fronting a no... |