loomisjohnson
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| Portable Radio Quality?!? Sangean PR-D19BK FM Stereo/AM Digital Tuning Portable Radio with Protective Bumper (Gray/Black) | |
| fm tuner you can find the analog pioneers like the tx7100 or tx6800 or kenwood kt7300 very inexpensively on ebay (<$50)--aesthetic and good sounding. if you want a digital tuner, i'd look at parasound or marantz at the same range. fmtunerinfo is a very ... | |
| There goes Tidal? from what i glean, apple is interested in the exclusive content, specifically the ability to sell digital downloads and video clips, which is where the real money is. the paid music subscription business, as i understand it, is a big money loser ... | |
| Adcom a weak link? if you're asking as a general matter whether upgrading your amp will make a significant difference, i think most would agree that it does. i never had the 7400, but i had the 5400 (which i believe is the same series and general architecture) as w... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report as much as i respected the cratsmanship, i never really embraced that grays/jellyfish genre, mainly because it's more pop than power. i did like jon brion's solo record, meaningless (you can find it on youtube), which is looser; you might also dig... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report nutty, glad you enjoyed it.dpatterson, i listened to the bob moses on spotify (also some of the "related artists" like the acid and kiasmos)--not sure what you call the genre?, but i like it--it's trippy without being soporific--will check out mor... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report fountains of wayne, sky full of holes--i don't generally like this type of "clever pop," but these guys do it very well, with a real sense of the melodic hook. their guitar player is surprisingly great.tinted windows, nothing to me--sort of superg... | |
| KEF Reference 1 any owners? if you're referring to the 90s vintage reference 1, i posted a review here a long time aqo here:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-kef-reference-model-one-speakeri'm not familiar with a more recent kef reference 1 | |
| "Stairway To Heaven" Plagarism court case zep is unquestionably great, but has a long history of putting their names on other folks' tunes (or traditional songs) and, to my knowledge, already paid off for "dazed and confused" and "bring it on home." they also had to change the credit on "... | |
| Pioneer SA9100 & TX9100 repair near McLean VA? (Worth it?) i had the (lower model) sa7100 for a long time and preferred it to comparable sansui and yamaha (tho not as much as harman kardon)--my recollection was that the preamp section was excellent, the amp section less so. (can't speak to the tx-9100 tun... | |
| Obscure bands judging from the foregoing recs, many of you would dig the new zealand bands from the flying nun label--most of these are (thankfully) available on spotify:the clean/david kilgourbailter spacetall dwarfsthe verlaines3Dsjean paul satre experienceth... | |
| Obscure bands ghosthouse, i can't believe that you (of all people) haven't actually heard the meat puppets--really one of the great alt bands of the 80s. II and up on the sum are their indisputable classics; their later major label stuff was good but started ve... | |
| Austrailian rock and roll soundfan, our tastes are aligned. gobetweens/ed kuepper are on my all-time list; unfortunately much of their best stuff (before hollywood, electrical storm, rooms of the magnificent) aren't on spotify, but totally worth having. i hadn't heard shin... | |
| Austrailian rock and roll forgot my faves, you am i--one of the best band in the world. they sound like what the kinks or the who would sound like today if they hadn't lost their senses of humor. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report keith richard, talk is cheap--it's not that the stones' classic lps weren't great, but they're so fussed-over and produced as to be ultimately exhausting. this one, by contrast, is unfussy and spare--mostly guitar, baass and drums, with horns and ... |