zaikesman
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| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto Spencer: I acknowledge that my reaction to MMJ is as much a reaction to what were probably questionable comparisons as to the band and its music. Other things I've read about them seem more accurate (based on my limited experience) if no less adul... | |
| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto Sbank: I got and returned one of the "Yoshimi..." pic-disks, "Do You Realize??" b/w "Up Above the Daily Hum", because it was totally unplayable - distortion city.I saw (taped, in fact) MMJ on TV, and regret to say did not dig it the way their adva... | |
| Another 6550 vs. KT88, 90, et. al.? Update: Bought and installed Electro-Harmonix KT-88's, after two of twelve Svetlana 6550C's failed at around 1 year and another had become noisy. I hadn't been thinking of going the Sovtek/EH route, until Kevin Deal at Upscale Audio recommended th... | |
| The Flaming Lips are Go Manifesto Just checked out the recent "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" EP at the Tower listening station this evening...a handful of useless remixes of "Yoshimi..." songs (definitely not improvements), along with a handful of uninspired new tunes...could... | |
| OK...I'm getting ready to buy a new Phono pre amp. I'm not suggesting anything, I was just curious what made you want to make this move, whether for instance you were dissatisfied with anything about the ARC (I don't have experience with either unit). It doesn't seem as if you've actually heard th... | |
| OK...I'm getting ready to buy a new Phono pre amp. Hi Rwd: I am wondering what makes you "very interested in replacing" your ARC with the Rhea... | |
| Jazz Big Band Recommendations? I tried one of the more recent Bill Holman albums that was well-reviewed, and was somewhat disappointed with the slightly aimless and generic-sounding feeling I got from both the tunes and the arrangements. Maybe the fact that the band was playing... | |
| Which Solid-State Preamp under $7,000.00 New? Apparently Nate and I have to work on our comic timing...DL, enjoy your music, whatever you listen to it though! | |
| Which Solid-State Preamp under $7,000.00 New? Daltonlanny: Don't take Nrchy to heart. Wait 12 hours first, *then* chuck your Pass overboard for something new ;^) | |
| Turner Audio of Australia? Thanks C. I guess we don't have many Aussie Agonners on this forum... | |
| Audiophiles & music-have you got it wrong? I'll probably never have as much invested in gear as I do music, but I've come closer than I ever thought I would just a few years ago. Which actually disturbs me - not only because I think of audiophilism as being fundamentally silly and wronghea... | |
| Which Solid-State Preamp under $7,000.00 New? I bought a Levinson 380S based on similar - if somewhat more feature-oriented - criteria. It's not quite perfect, but it's fantastically engineered, and sounds close enough to totally neutral and transparent that combined with its user-friendlines... | |
| Big caps v Little caps I wasn't aware that brands had to be 'unusual' or 'old' to use only one large-value filter cap per channel in the power supply. Amps I've owned from Classe, Conrad-Johnson, and VTL have done just that. Some even sound(ed) good. The McCormack DNA s... | |
| Victoriaville jazz fest, are you going??? Where is Victoriaville? | |
| What is the standard for judging a systems sound? Well, if you really want to hear humorous lyrical rewrites about Santa Claus (all songs must be holiday-themed) set to covers of tunes by The Pretty Things and The Chocolate Watch Band and raucously banged-out by a bunch of never-were's on a spree... |