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| In Search of Beatles Rock but not Pop I'm curious how old you are, CW. Rock fans who grew up on a diet of the "heavier" sounds that followed The Beatles may find that their music doesn't seem to "rock out" enough for them. In their day, The Beatles did often get represented as one sid... | |
| How long can Magnepan speaker last? I would be willing to bet that among all speaker brands, Magneplanar is probably one of the frontrunners when it comes to older models still being used regularly out in the field. No voice coils to burn out, no surrounds to dry up and disintegrate... | |
| Matching preamp inputs. As did my old NAD 1155... | |
| Matching preamp inputs. That is probably why you notice the difference in the knob's action with the two components. Lots of preamp manufacturers will calibrate the level control to have a coarser adjustment action at the bottom of the useable range, and give it finer co... | |
| upscaling, bits and resampling ?? Different companies have different engineering approaches to how to get the best sound from CD. Regardless of what approach is used, no more information than the 16 bit/44.1KHZ data density that is on the disk itself can be extracted or manufactur... | |
| Matching preamp inputs. Which source component has the higher output? In other words, is the tuner at a typical volume setting occupying a range on your preamp's volume knob above or below the range you use for the DAC? | |
| Harmonic Technology vs Acoustic Zen Recomendations Sorry to take it off-topic, Jason, but there's a lot more to good amp sound than a high damping factor (or "specsmanship" generally - be it distortion figures, rated RMS power, etc). It's even debatable whether one can actually hear much differenc... | |
| How have your tastes changed? From my own experience, I would say this eclecticism is pretty typical of audiophiles in general, but I don't think in my case that much of it was due to my system per se. I just think that folks who really know music, are curious about it, and wo... | |
| Low Voltage on Circuit Glad it worked out for the better... Tubes - I love 'em, but they can really drive you nuts! | |
| Best band never to release a truly great album? Broke down and spent a couple hundred to see them play the local arena on the "No Security" tour a few years ago. We sat in the nosebleed-seats, snickered at the satin tour jackets selling for the same amount as both our tickets, endured The Corrs... | |
| Low Voltage on Circuit Although I was actually a little surprised to begin with that the voltage you reported would cause any problems, the fact that each of two monoblocks is acting up at the same time would tend to eliminate something like a parts failure - unless the... | |
| Best band never to release a truly great album? Yes, subjective to be sure. But someone who only thinks The Stones were responsible for 25 good tunes in their career is isn't much of a Stones fan to begin with. Maybe it's time to go and check out something beyond "Hot Rocks"! :-)P.S. - My girlf... | |
| Best band never to release a truly great album? This would be indicative of why Roy Buchanan, whatever anyone may think about him as a guitar player, was not actually one of the "greats" as an artist.... | |
| Low Voltage on Circuit ...and then, of course, you'd have to add in your other systems (how many of those did you say you have?)...I think I should start-up a small Enron-style company to corner the electricity market on your block... :-) | |
| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time No, I said "great".... |