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| Quick poll: Most enjoyable audio magazine ? "I'm with the stereophile crowd. I dont occasionally worry about whether the manufacturers influence their reviews." Idnfl: I don't mean to be disrespectful but I cringed when I read your response. | |
| Playing the wifes music choices My wife is a little intimidated by my system so she refrains from playing the music she likes. For the most part she does not share my musical tastes but every now and then she suprises me. She enjoys jazz, trip hop, and classical (including opera... | |
| Quick poll: Most enjoyable audio magazine ? For the most part I agree with Ninox but the humor displayed in Stereophile pales in comparision to the defunct Listener Magazine (those brits seem to have captured the market in terms of wit and guile bordering on silliness).There really isn't a ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution 1979 - 1983: Ohm type H1983 - 2000: Nestorovic type 52000 - present: Hales T8Future purchases when I hit the lottery: Vandersteen 7's or Verity Sarastro 2. | |
| Vandersteen Model 7: has anyone heard? "In his talk, Richard said that they intentionally had chosen electronics that were significantly less expensive than what you'd expect to hear driving speakers of that price. It certainly didn't matter in terms of what we heard."To my way of thin... | |
| What amp/pre-amp would you buy for $12-15k? All of the following suggestions are used and some are dated:Ayre K-1xe / V-1xeConrad johnson LS-16 (version 2) or CT-5 / Premier 350Audio research Ref 3 / Ref 110Parasound JC2 / JC1 Mono'sAethetix calipso (or janus) / Atlas | |
| Best of in new york Davehrab: you're kidding of course, or did you just view a Harold and Kumar movie? | |
| Favourite ECM Titles Most of the responses to this thread have centered on jazz releases but ECM has wonderful classical releases as well. I discovered a talented Russian composer on this label who up to now I never even heard of: Valentin Silvestrov. Check out Bagate... | |
| need suggestion about pre-amp, price around $5,000 To be honest, I haven't heard any of these but based on reviews here and various audio publications these are on my short list. Just waiting for the economy to improve before I pull the trigger:Audio Research Ref 3Ayre K-1xeHovland HP-200Conrad Jo... | |
| Lp's you'd like to see remastered Neil Young: On the Beach Zuma Hawks and Doves Stars and BarsThe Stooges: Fun House | |
| SOTA Star Sapphire III - ball bearing & vacuum The noise you experience in the begginning of the cycle is typical, at least from my experience. As far as the vacuum goes, I've never been particularly impressed with its efficacy. If you're thinking it will take the curse out of record warps for... | |
| Rolling Stones Fans- I Need advice The MFSL recording of Sticky Fingers is one of the best releases MFSL ever made. Just listen to Moonlight Mile and tell me you are not impressed. Its one of the earlier releases from MFSL so there is a good chance Stan Ricker did the cutting. | |
| OT Congratulations NY Yankees I'm a Red Sox fan but I'm also a baseball fan too and the Red Sox thru their payroll have become a version of 'Yankeelite' IMO. The Sox were always a big market team but there was enough disparity with their payroll (as compared to the yankees) wh... | |
| What are your fav “Off Hollywood” films some recent films which I thought were noteworthy:Waltz with Bashir: part animation of Israeli incurion into Lebanon circa 1980 which maybe the best film I've seen re. the insanity of war.Terror's Advocate:The Secret Lives of Others: | |
| Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion? Gotta agree with Schubertmaniac. The release was lauded in one of the recent audiophile publications (5 stars no less). To tell you the truth, the release was so disappointing I can't even remember if the recording or sound quality were any better... |