davemitchell
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| Beating the RVG Horse The best sounding Blue Notes are from the end of the 1500 series around 1957. Try any of the following:Coltrane - Blue TrainLee Morgan - The CookerCliff Jordan - Cliff CraftSonny Clark - Cool Struttin'Lee Morgan - CandyLou Donaldson - Takes OffLou... | |
| Beating the RVG Horse Edle- the original post is about the RGV remasters done in the last few years specifically, not the original recordings or LPs or previous CD issues. Many of the original and reissue LPs are sonically fantastic.Zaik- Like the original poster, I ha... | |
| Hum with Vandersteen 2wqs and passive pre? A hum problem is usually ground loop related. Connect a (ground) wire between the ground post on the 2Wq and your preamp or amplifier chassis. You may need to cheat out the third prong ground on the power cord of the sub. See if that solves your p... | |
| Help with PC Audio Quality vs. CD Hi Ben,The reason I said that you shouldn't have to "go to all of this trouble" is that in your original post you reported acheiving sound that was noticeably inferior to "any old CD player." In my experience this is definately not normal. I have ... | |
| Meridian vs. Audio Research CD Players I used to be a Meridian dealer and am still and ARC dealer so hopefully I can shed some light on the comparison (exluding the G-series from Meridian).The ARC CD3mkII is much improved from the MKI, which is still a nice player, but the upgrade is w... | |
| Trying to extract more from my Vandersteen I'm a Vandersteen dealer and used to sell MIT cables and McCormack amplifiers. The Vandersteens can sound very lively and transparent with the right gear, but MIT cables are the wrong choice, especially partnered with the also darker sounding McCo... | |
| Bi-amping with Audioquest cables Lt346mp asks a good question. I have experimented quite a bit with those kinds of comparisons. Comparing your example of a double bi-wire set of Midnight (bass) and Sterling (highs), to a single-biwire with a single Sterling cable, the Midnight/St... | |
| Help with PC Audio Quality vs. CD You shouldn't need to go through all of this trouble to get better results. Something else is going on. I don't know about that particular card, but have lots of experience with the Coax out of the M-Audio 24/96 and even the less expensive Revolut... | |
| Bi-amping with Audioquest cables Bi-amping or Bi-wiring within a single Audioquest cable will work fine. The reason it is not recommended has more to do with the sonic disadvantage of having deep bass information traveling in close proximity to more delicate high frequencies. The... | |
| Rudy Van Gelder Remasters The RGV remasters on Blue Note generally sound lean and sterile compared with any other CD versions and especially when compared with the LPs. After trying about a dozen of the RGV's, I gave up on them.Some of the best sounding Blue Note CDs are t... | |
| Rudy Van Gelder: Genius or just lucky? The early (1956-1959) RGV recordings sound the best. They are far from perfect or spatially natural, but really charming for fans of the music. The tonality of the instruments was better then, and the sound was full and lively. The piano always so... | |
| Will leaving an amp powered-up all the time... Virtually all conventional solid state amplifiers will sound their best when left on continuously. The reason for this is that even at idle, an amplifier has voltage and current present which will keep capacitors charged and keep the dielectrics o... | |
| ARC LS 25 Mk 11 Bypass The quality of the signal path offered by any ARC preamp with a unity gain processor input is far superior to that of any digital surround processor, enough so that it will not be a source of sonic degradation. Many listeners may actually find tha... | |
| Single speaker wire on bi-posts with jumpers...?? It seems hard to believe, but the driver(s)fed from where you directly connect your single speaker cable (+ & -) will sound noticeably better than the driver(s) fed from jumper connections. The best solution (as others have mentioned)is a cros... | |
| vandersteen 5a question Lets clear up some confusion:The current Vandersteen M5HP's come with a few inches of Audioquest Sky which is their top of the line (excluding the brand new Horizon Extreme)silver air-dielectric triple balanced cable. The Sky normally comes with a... |