zaikesman
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Velvet Underground & Nico (Produced by Andy Warhol) - [Verve stereo LP, 1967] How lucky am I to have a girlfriend who owns a NM gatefold original pressing of this revolutionary classic (even if this one lacks the extra-valuable peelable ba... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? If you do that you might wind up with a Rottweiler on your turntable... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? To me a true binaural recording uses a dummy-head mic, although again, in the end the playback system positioning remains a rather arbitrary and subjective thing by comparison. | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? As others have stipulated, the listening room's added reflections are distortions. But we need to always keep in mind that "what the mics heard" was insufficient to represent what a human listener at the event would have perceived, and that what t... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Muralman1: The radiation pattern and phase relationship you describe is dipole, not bipole. | |
| What difference would the XYZ DAC make? For a system like yours, I'd skip a separate DAC and try one or two standalone players you think may make for an upgrade instead.One reason for this answer is that yours seems like a simple system and so I assume it should probably be kept that wa... | |
| Do Any High End Speakers Boogie/Rock? BW 804 Blues No. Cerwin-Vegas or Kenwoods used with a graphic equalizer rock. Don't we remember anything we learned in junior high school here people?! | |
| solid state gear- leave on? I also must disagree with Pabelson's take on a couple of points:"Tubes take a long time to settle in, so keeping them on makes some sense; for SS, just turn it on a few minutes before you start listening."A) Tube gear requires less, not more, warm... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Summitav wrote: "Those who state that live recordings will not sound 'real' in an anechoic environment have not listened (properly) in that environment." You are quite correct that I haven't had the opportunity to listen to anything, much less a g... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? BTW, does the LP have the CD bonus track "Freedom"? If not, this cut (with vocal) is justification enough for picking up the CD as well to make a comparison. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Cuscuna 'produced' the CD reissue #IMPD-170 (the actual remastering was done by one Eric Labson at MCA) - that import vinyl could simply be a transfer from this digital remaster, and barring some assurance to the contrary, my gut is that it probab... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Some thoughts:>All speakers bounce sound around the room, in varying ways and to varying degrees, and that includes so-called 'point-source' monopoles. We need to be careful to properly distinguish among our terms: point-source, line-source, li... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yes Spence, I believe you listed that selection above. Great record, among many of his of course. I think the CD sounds quite good, and to tell the truth about me, I basically never buy audiophile vinyl unless I happen to stumble across something ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey, that's easy. Try sitting through one side of "Greendale" while resisting the urge to pull out "Zuma" or "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" instead :-) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse! CD reissue 1995, orig. 1963) As the snow falls down and my better half is still stuck at work, I'm happily ensconsed cranking up the soundstage to somewhat lifelike proportions and gitt... |