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| Adventures With Subwoofers I have had consistent success in adding a sub (first the SVS SB1000, then a JLAudio e110) to my home office’s desktop system. There are 2 keys to success, in my experience: 1 - I use an external crossover with 24 dB/octave high- & low-pass fi... | |
| What to do with pre-owned vinyl? @dwette, exactly right. | |
| What to do with pre-owned vinyl? OP here. It's not sorted out at all. Years later, same problem. I no longer even think about selling these LPs -- to much work. The best of the suggestions here (which I'd forgotten) involves contacting Goodwill, taking a deduction on the whole se... | |
| Giant ads on threads One of my two anti-virus/anti-malware programs is the paid version of Malwarebytes (it saved my bacon many times). MWB has a superb ad-blocker which I use on Firefox, my primary browser. As a result, I haven't been served ads there in years. There... | |
| Recommendations for speakers in a much smaller listening room. Welcome to my world (13' x 13' home office with all my electronics). Your space is a little bigger, but here's what I've learned: 1 - Overall the single best thing you could do to reduce your speakers' interface with the room (boundary effect, nu... | |
| Buckeye Amps musicality? Not measurements, musicality.... OP, I own 2 class D amplifiers that sound very nice to me (with vintage KEF 103.2 or Harbeth 30.1 2-ways): Wyred 4 Sound ST-500: this stereo ICEPower design is long in the tooth but sounds wonderful. I'm listening to it right now. bel canto 600M... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman thatnks for that link. I never heard of this Haydn oratorio! Listening to it now. I much prefer Haydn's choral/liturgical writing to instrumental (I'm probably alone in feeling that way, but there it is). | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman are you referring to Dorati's version of "The Creation" (Royal Phil, London/Jubilee)? If yes, it's easily the best version of the four or five I own. Just my 2 cents. I'm nuts for oratorios, so many through the centuries. Handel is the ma... | |
| Do some DACs "handle" sibilance better than others? OP, the answer is yes. After years of painfully bright digital music from CDs on various delta/sigma DACs, I found NOS & R2R DACs, and everything changed. Some of them manage to be bright, but way fewer than any random assortment of d/s DACs w... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-b-dog, you are so right about Bach's Mass in B Minor. It's magnificent music. So much of what the man composed is magnificent. Are you hip to Haydn's "The Creation"? I love that oratorio. The man was playing his A game when he wrote that. ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Delighted to see people talking about Kiri Te Kanawa. I love her voice. Every voice is totally unique ... the timbre of hers is wonderful. Her interpretation of Richard Strauss' 4 final songs is easily the best of the dozens I've heard (probably ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-b-dog, I know all about Oliver Sachs. Actually have a copy of Musicophelia; this is a good reminder to read it. I’ve also heard his lectures. I first became acqainted with him via the neurology connection: he was a well-known researcher in ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries mindless technicolor rat? besides, I have it on good authority the future will be a dingy, medium grey light. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I heard music from infancy onward. I actually remember music as a very distinct feeling as far back as 2 yrs old. I have pictures of my twin brother and me sitting in our high chairs at dinner time. My mother was feeding us (food we immediately th... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? The Jimmy Hendrix Experience at Hunter College in NYC in 1968. I saw him again twice later, but nothing compared to that night in ’68. My mind and ears got completely blown..... |