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| Best single volume guide to classical music Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers by David Mason Greene. Best classical music bathroom reading of all time. Not in print apparently but not at all expensive used. | |
| Does it bother you when you see inflated MSRP’s for used gear on AG? If you want to buy something used and you think the dealer is playing silly buggers with the price, I would think the thing to do is to make an offer of 50% of the retail price and explains your reasons to him. He doesn't have to sell it at your p... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? More envy than hate, I would think. Certainly what I feel about the matter. | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! Do you ever have that experience when you're upgrading of giving your old speakers one last listen and saying to yourself, "Boy, these aren't bad." Sort of like premature nostalgia. | |
| What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections? There are probably a lot of people who transferred their CD collections to one of those storage devices, have not touched the physical discs for years, and would be happy to sell them. It might be just the disc and the booklet, but that would make... | |
| Would It Be Possible To Get Help Finding This Song? Find out who the producer is or the producer's assistant is or someone of that nature who isn't too grand to speak to the public, find this person's contact information, and ask what the music was on such and such a date and time. | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? It's not a myth, it's an illusion. Intentionally. | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? More of a law of incremental improvement. | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? More than any other single group, The Beatles expanded the range of what rock and roll could be more than any other group before or since. To deny their achievement by demoting it to some lesser form because of that achievement is perverse. The Be... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @gumbedamit Without Googling, Queens? I know Louis Armstrong lived there. | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? "New HiFi Sound" is being mildly disappointed in the gear you've just bought and hoping it's going to blossom once it's broken in. | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? I think of a couple of releases that seem to me be creatures of the CD era: The Centennial edition of The Complete Robert Johnson brought out sounds I don't think anyone ever knew were there. Though I don't know that it's any great shakes sonica... | |
| Something other than Harbeth SHL5 By-the-by, I have just begun breaking in a pair of Super HL5 XDs. As I don't live in the sort of place where you can't play your stereo loud all day, it will some three months or so until I have a final verdict. As I said, I have literally just ta... | |
| Something other than Harbeth SHL5 Seems to me getting an upgraded Harbeth wouldn't fulfill the desire for something new. How about this: Find speakers that people are raving about that have significant return windows. Keep the Harbeths during the process. If you find the greener g... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? Whether or not you value imaging is purely subjective. If imaging is important to you, you pursue it, and it's there to be pursued if you value it. You shouldn't be swayed by some notion that you're not a true audiophile if you don't care about im... |