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| Review: Rega Apollo CD Player Plato makes a good point: the sound of the Apollo definitely improves with age. It sounds okay out of the box, really good after a couple of weeks, but mine took about four months to show itself to its best advantage. I was catching some occasiona... | |
| Replacing stock cables: where to start Signal Cable MagicPower cables would be in your budget. Their Digital Reference cords made an immedaite and significantly positive difference on both a transport and a DAC I own. There was less of an improvement using the regular MagicPower cable ... | |
| Anybody play any musical instruments........... Harmonica/blues harp -- one of the few instruments you can play along to the car stereo while you're driving. | |
| Soft squishy feet Another vote for Herbie's footers. I use them under all AV electronics. They even noticably sharpened the picture from my DVD player. | |
| New HD DVD Player - which isolation device to use? Herbie's isolation devices are minor miracles. I'm using the iso-cups with ebony balls under a couple of amps with great success. But lighter components, such as CD & DVD players, transports, etc., tend to slide around on top of the balls when... | |
| beautiful piano recordings: solo or small ensemble Chopin Complete Nocturnes -- Bernard d'AscoliChopin Piano Concertos -- Ewa KupiecMendelssohn Piano Trios -- Jonathan Gilad with Julia Fischer and Daniel Muller-Schott | |
| First song to "Blow You Away"... Van Morrison covering Dylan's It's All Over Now Baby Blue back in the mid-60s on an AM car radio. | |
| Mendelssohn Piano Concerto Joseph Kalichstein/Jaime Larado/Scottish Chamber Orchestra on Nimbus. Well scaled, lots of brio, yet delivering appropriate lyricism. Not sacd, and maybe hard to find, but worth the hunt. | |
| which book to get? Listening instead of reading is good advice. But there comes a time when reading adds to the enjoyment. Ted Gioia, an excellent jazz pianist in his own right, has written a very good survey entitled The History of Jazz. It's well worth checking ou... | |
| Time-Life albums????? I have the Time/Life Giants of Jazz (or something like that) series -- twenty or more 3-LP sets in slip cases. They consist of recordings from the 20s to the early 50s and sound just fine, really good, in fact. Of course, given the age of the mast... | |
| Best 5 disc cd player for the $ A used California Audio Labs CL-10 might fit your bill. | |
| PrimaLuna Prologue 1 or 2? Craig,Kestral 2s love tubes and either choice will probably be just fine. On my experience with the Kestrals, I'd opt for the KT88-based Prologue 2. The speakers will appreciate that extra bit of power, and the added "bottom" provided by KT88s wil... | |
| Limited size for bookshelf speakers...help?? Totem Mites or Dreamcatchers ought to fit. Check out their website: www.totemacoustic.com | |
| The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd It's a lot of fun, even without partaking of any "spiritual condiments." I demonstrated it last month for some friends and it had the happy benefit of one guy exclaiming, "Geez, I'd forgotten what a great album this is."Here's a link to help: http... | |
| Totem vs B&W For what it's worth, I have a pair of Dreamcatchers in my home office, sitting on an open-backed, open-sided bookcase and about 8 inches from the wall. I've been very happy with them in this setup. |