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| Easy to discriminate between DAC ?? Your question is a good one. I am surprised every time I listen and try to discriminate between DAC's. I found it so difficult to articulate any differences I (thought) I was hearing between different DAC's that I sold all I had and went back to o... | |
| Personal analog evolution Started out, like many, with a Garrard table in 1973. Can't remember the cartridge, I think I remember a Shure Type??Then in 1975 I got into the B&O line of turntables. I started out with the Beogram 3000 and evolved to the linear tracking 400... | |
| Buying speaker and amps from Canada to the US.Tax? Update on my earlier response about ignoring a customs brokerage bill from UPS: Though I have never heard again from UPS, and it's been 18 mos at least, I am currently being dunned by FedEx for an $80 customs brokerage fee on a speaker shipment th... | |
| speaker choice help below $800 I just got a pair of PSB Image 5T's for a friend who wanted floorstanding speakers for rock and jazz with more bass than a monitor. The PSB's were only $450 used and sound very good in her system and small room. She has a small Cambridge Audio A30... | |
| Help me select an integrated amp. Options please If you're on a budget, try to audition the Unison Research Unico integrated that's been getting so many great reviews. I also recommend the ARC CA-50 (tubed integrated), which I use with ProAc monitors. Your speakers are very efficient so you may ... | |
| Question for Velvet Underground fans The female drummer staring straight ahead was Mo Tucker. she always looked that way. | |
| Linn LP12 Black Felt Mat How do you keep it on ? Hi, yes I too replaced it, after years of believing that nothing should be used instead of it, with the Extreme Phono Donut Mat. Never sticks to the record and TT sounds better! My Linn dealer thinks I have violated all Linn principles and may not... | |
| Question for Velvet Underground fans Zaikes, are you a record reviewer or music critic? You are that well-informed and make that many cool analogies and spin-offs. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that you write/wrote for Rolling Stone (in the older days), NME, or Spin. I love readin... | |
| Early 1970's rock: Name some of your favorites Yeah, great thread! These were my high school and college days, and the era when I bought my first component system. Spinning on that, to me, high end Garrard turntable in the early 70's were:Elton John, Yellow Brick RoadArt Garfunkel, that first ... | |
| What is the best regarded desktop speaker? The Totem Mites, the Paradigm (?) Atoms, and the ProAc Tablette Signatures are all very good sounding little speakers. | |
| Unheralded Sideman Kasper and Walter--yes, it's Kenny Vaughn! Thanks for refreshing my memory. He says absolutely nothing onstage, looks very shy, but just blows everyone away with his well-placed licks. I think he may also play with the super-group (so to speak), L... | |
| MF A3 speaker connectors: What were they thinking? I don't think you are missing anything; this seems to be a popular Brit way of doing speaker terminals! A little Cambridge Audio integrated I used to own has the same damn arrangement. I had to cut off the beautifully made spades from my speaker c... | |
| Unheralded Sideman There's this really dorky-looking guy (big black glasses and ratty longish brown hair in his eyes) who plays KILLER lead guitar for Lucinda Williams, and I think for Buddy and Julie Miller recently too. I just can't remember his name right now. Bu... | |
| need help Unpgrading from CAL Ikon MK II I too have the Cal Icon II (non-HDCD) and have been interested in a cost-effective upgrade. My own research has led me to the new Jolida 100 CDP, but I've never heard one myself yet. I have listened to a few other lower-cost CD players but none ha... | |
| Mark Levinson Gurus: Vintage Three Mile Island I love all the great vintage equipment you're using! Are you the original owner of all these classic pieces, or did you acquire them later, as a collector? I can only imagine how the Tympani's sound, I longed for a pair back in the mid 80's when a... |