loomisjohnson
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @curiousjim glad you're enjoying artful dodger--they have a third major label record, babes on broadway, which is terrible, but the first two and the aforesaid "rave on" are the bomb. further picks today: rage to live, s/t--very intelligent 80s ... | |
| Fantasy or reality? Inexpensive solid state preamps that get you 80% there? if you're ok with hybrids, the vincent sa31 or rogue rp! can be found for a grand or so and are at least 83% of the way there | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? artful dodger, "rave on"-- swansong from a great, underappreciated guitar pop band somewhere between badfinger and the small faces (the singer sounds a lot like steve marriott). never on cd, afaik, but you can find it on youtube. grant lee buffal... | |
| Help with Yamaha 801 pairing i've owned the 801 and still have the polk model 10--the 801 is a good sounding amp but tends towards sounding a little bright, so you might pair it with something a little warmer--in your price range maybe focal aria, wharfedale or kef | |
| what cd player ? personally, i'd buy a really good universal player used, but if you want new the yamaha s100 is $799 at accessories4less and is built like a tank | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? @roxy54 @bdp24 i fully concur that the byrds had great material through notorious byrd brothers (i like clarence white, too, but i don't think they were writing many memorable songs by that time). for my money, tho, their vocal sound was fully fo... | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? rem was fantastic, but (like the byrds, the cars and the ramones) they hit their artistic peak right out of the gate w/chronic town and murmur--for me everything that came after marked a gradual, but noticeable decline--i rarely listen to anything... | |
| Looking for suggestions i mostly agree with mesch--your b& w speakers are pretty good, while changing to tidal or qobuz would be a huge upgrade. as for your receiver (which looks like it does have 2-zone capability), i'm not sure changing to another avr would make a ... | |
| Arcam A65 with EMI driving me nuts… could be all sorts of things--cable routing, inadequate cable shielding, improperly grounding and ground loops from antennas or wall outlets, as well as bad caps or relays. since i understand you still get noise when you remove all the sources a... | |
| Denon AVR-X4700H & Vandersteen 2Ce Signature III. i'm not one of those all-avrs-sound-terrible guys, and i've owned or heard various arcam, anthem and denon avrs which have been surprisingly good for music. however, i'd be really surprised if your denon sounded better than your ayre integrated, w... | |
| RIP Tom Verlaine i cannot think of a pair of guitarists in a single band that come close to verlaine and richard lloyd (dickie betts/duane allman would be next on my list; perhaps the guys from the church?). last time i saw verlaine he kept complaining to the lig... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? mutton birds, rain steam & speed--plaintive jangly nz folkrock; closer in feel to the go-betweens than to the flying nun bands, but would appeal to fans of either. meat puppets, monsters--one of the great air guitar records dillard and clark... | |
| Looking for good speakers, soundstage not important +2 (or 3) for ohm--they're optimal for odd shaped room. revel are also very non-directional but need a lot of power. | |
| Improvement over 2002 Denon AVR-3802 for 2 Channel Music System for years i had a denon 4802 (one model up from the 3802) and it had a damn good amp section--i passed it on to a true audiophile buddy who was also surprised by how good it sounded. however, your revels need a lot of high-current power and i woul... | |
| eero mesh WiFi system for me, the mesh system was eons better than the hodgepodge of wifi extenders/signal boosters i used previously |