larsman
Responses from larsman
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? @hysteve - I'm sure it sounds great, but that must have been the one reviewer who didn't think the QRP double-45 sounded best. Different setups, different systems, etc, it's all good, but personally I have yet to hear a double-45 that didn't sound... | |
| Sphere! @stuartk - Indeed, they are different sounds, but neither does that much for me. I'm not really into the 'jam band' thing. What I love about the Grateful Dead that most other 'jam bands' lack, in my opinion, is songwriting chops and distinctive si... | |
| Sphere! @stuartk - Hi Stuart - yes I am, but I'm not much of a fan of Black Crowes or the brothers - they're great, for sure, but just not for me.... | |
| Sphere! @stuartk - yes, and I've never been particularly interested in that version of the band, myself. My favorite Grateful Dead band is Dark Star Orchestra; I've been seeing them for decades now. | |
| Sphere! @stuartk - Last week in the 'Bizarro' panel comic, they had a title of 'Muchas Garcias' and a lot of little Jerrys on the table with scientists talking about cloning him.. But perhaps you're not aware of any GD-oriented activity since 1995? Ther... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? I saw a recommendation for Harbeth. I had Harbeths for a number of years and for your musical preferences they are about the last speakers I would recommend. They are great for vocals, jazz, etc, but I found them really lacking for rock. I had KLH... | |
| Digital LP’s I buy plenty of audiophile analog that goes through no digital processing at all. Just see all the stuff they have at Acoustic Sounds, for starters. Lots of pure analog there. | |
| Food: what does the typical audiophile eat? @mashif - it certainly does if you eat brownies or mix oil in with salad dressing like I do! 👌 | |
| Best Audiophile/Music T-Shirts @chmaiwald - that's pretty funny! | |
| Help with high end bookshelf speakers Best/only real way to know is to try to get a dealer to let you audition them in your home. Otherwise it will always be a guessing game to some extent, depending on how much you pay attention to measurements. | |
| A day in the life of an audiophile You gotta be able to tune things out and get your mind to prioritize what it pays attention to.... | |
| Digital LP’s That's quite the generalization; in many cases that would be true, but like with almost anything else, I've no doubt that many exceptions can be found. | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? The speakers are what I'm actually hearing, so I'd possibly be speakers first, but if the source of what the speakers are playing is faulty. "Garbage In, Garbage Out", or 'GIGO' for short, btw, is an old, old expression - used it with IT along wit... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I'm not interested in reproducing a live gig in my home; I'm interested in getting the best I can (with what I can afford) from what the producer put on the recording. The same live performance can sound completely different depending on the liste... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I'm a bit confused when I read reviewers talk about gear that gets them 'tapping their toes'. To me, it's the MUSIC that will get me tapping my toes, just like it did when I was a teenager in the 60's with a handheld transistor radio. I had no pro... |