zaikesman
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Back from travels, here's a sampling of some of the inexpensive as usual vintage vinyl I scrounged along the way:Joe Wilder Quartet - "Jazz From Peter Gunn" [Columbia, '59] Small combo renderings of Mancini's soundtrack tunes with Milt Hinton and ... | |
| Thiels or Von Schweikerts Glad you're thrilled with your new purchase Rustler, what speakers were you able to audition the Soliloquy against, and what do you like about these better? | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... Dylan was a lousy pass-rusher, he never could have played the 3-4. He also couldn't play whatever the hell that character was supposed to be in "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid". (I do quite like his guitar and harmonica playing however.) | |
| Review: van den Hul The Orchid Interconnect I too own the Au24 speaker cables, and tried their RCA interconnects on loan. Matched against my personal reference van den Hul The First Ultimate interconnects, I thought the Au24 was very good but not quite as accomplished as their speaker cable... | |
| Plastic ring over tweeter opinion PP: They posted it, but I'm having trouble posting my response there because my pooter has picked this time to start arbitrarily freezing up on me. I already lost this short reply once, and about half of my detailed post over there this morning...... | |
| What CD player will warm my Thiel/Classe systm? On 8/22 I wrote of the 1.6, "It's appropriate for smaller rooms, and listeners willing to live without the bottom 2.5 octaves being reproduced in full". That should have read bottom 1.5 octaves, the speaker is supposed to hold up in the bass until... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Os Mutantes | |
| Plastic ring over tweeter opinion PP: IMO you should have responded to me about the other thread *on* the other thread. But instead I guess you complained to Agon about it, because when I took the liberty of attempting to copy and paste the pertinent part of your response here ove... | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... Well, if he was talking about music and not sound, I for one wouldn't rush to disagree with him -- including regarding his own work over that span. Recording quality? Now that's irrelevant! ('Specially when the music is too.) | |
| What CD player will warm my Thiel/Classe systm? Thanks for the room description. Incredible, ain't it, that at three different shops no one asked about this. Along with a speaker's intrinsic response, the speaker/room interaction is really the most sonically determinative aspect of the entire s... | |
| What CD player will warm my Thiel/Classe systm? "My room is about 20 x 30 with a high ceiling."Aha! The good news is, your problem is identified. The bad news: upgrading your CDP isn't going take care of it. But no wonder you're here asking about ways to improve the sound.Actually, the problem ... | |
| What CD player will warm my Thiel/Classe systm? From what you just described, my recommendation to you as a "novice audiophile" is NOT to run out and buy a different CD player. Of course you may want to get a better CDP at some point, but this will have almost no bearing on your system's low fr... | |
| ESOTERIC, WADIA -- How do they really sound? "That said, I understand the X-01 & X-03 use the Teac VRDS transport. This is considered the most rugged, advanced transport in the world. I'd love to have it, but the price of admission is too high. Of course, just because a player uses this ... | |
| What are we listening to tonight? The entire Undertones catalog (making a compilation for a friend):The Undertones ('78)Hypnotised ('80)Positive Touch ('81)The Sin Of Pride ('83)All Wrapped Up (collection, '83)+ some 12" single bonus cutsA band that went from being hailed as the I... | |
| KT88 Monoblock amp makes a spitting sound at times The hum may (though I don't know and am not personally experienced with that amp) be caused by the power transformer inducing a resonance in the tube cage after the temperature has risen in both. Yes, the simplest fix in that case would probably b... |