zaikesman
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| Neat cheap amp suggestions . Help me have fun. Here's cheap'n'neat for ya: How bout a pair of those cute little Marantz MA-500 monoblocks? Not geriatric, and a pair used should only set you back within $50-100 of your target price at most. I have to admit I've never heard them myself, but I've... | |
| Isolation Theory Question If it didn't look weird, and block air circulation, access to front panel buttons, doors, rear panel jacks, etc., I'd place all my components on goosedown pillows. Really. | |
| Silver vs Copper cables I don't know who the above imposters are (certainly not electrical engineers), but any real audiophile could tell you the difference in a sentence: Copper sounds more "coppery", silver sounds more "silvery". See? Right. Next, on to the sound of co... | |
| Queen on American Idol Well, couldn't be more ludicrous -- or any worse -- than watching the "Queen With Paul Rogers" concert on PBS... | |
| Gene Pitney RIP I have a few of his old albums, even though his kind of pop isn't always totally up my alley. But I recognize his prodigious talents, playing multiple instruments, overdubbing his wide-ranging vocals into choruses, writing a bunch of great songs, ... | |
| Tivoli Radio??? Sure, I'll kick you to the curb Dan -- but not for acknowledging that a Wave can sound better than a Tivoli, for the class of hotel in Paris you get to stay in!! ;^) (I've recently given in to reality and made the move up from Motel 6 to Super 8 [... | |
| Tivoli Radio??? Maybe I ought to go hear a PAL, I'm always up for a good small portable radio. | |
| DIY LP cleaning IKEA find I brought up this thread again to forward the URL to a correspondent, and noticed upon rereading Chazzbo's post that he mentions adding detergent to isopropyl -- dish detergent.While adding a detergent is fine, I would stay away from dish detergen... | |
| Tivoli Radio??? Narrod: I appreciate your equanimity. However, I am only talking about the Tivoli used as a casual table radio -- it goes without saying that no one here would ever consider it (or a Wave for that matter) to constitute the centerpiece of a real sy... | |
| Tivoli Radio??? I went and heard the original Tivoli when it came out, guess that's the Model One. Not only did I feel it failed to live up to Tellig's predictable hype, I thought it really sounded just plain bad and irritating -- certainly different but no bette... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I took a couple out of town trips recently and of course bought many used records -- but had the chance to pick up original copies of two Jimmy Webb LP's, including his debut, and ultimately passed after checking them out on my portable player. Oh... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable I meant to post to this thread some time ago and didn't, so I'm glad it's cropped up again. A lot of what I have to say I've already said on other threads before. To briefly recap: I've owned my 1200 for close to 23 years now -- buying it as soon ... | |
| What the heck is that thing? Speaking of Mikey, has anybody actually heard his comedy LP? I haven't, but I did hear a short piece on a local Boston compilation album from the 70's I found at a used record store, called "30 Seconds With Michael Fremer". He impersonated a ditzy... | |
| Buck Owens RIP Thanks for the post. Though I'm not the hugest country music enthusiast, I do prefer the 40's and 50's 'honkytonk' C&W which inspired Owens, and I have several of his old Capitol LP's. I also watched Hee Haw as a kid (he and Roy Clark were the... | |
| B&W Nautilus 800.....where's the bass? Baffled: Your tale is both instructive and heartening, ignore the other stuff. In audiophilia you find that any company of a certain size or larger, and especially one that does as much original science r&d as B&W and has one leg in the ma... |