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Favorite Movie Soundtrack
Pleasantville - Randy Newman 
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Favorite Movie Soundtrack
American Beauty - hauntingKoyaabusqatsi - organ and choir singing a song of our livesFaust - Randy Newman plays gospel and popSchool Daze - Wake Up (and dance)Cider House Rules - used this as the theme for my weddingi am sam - always a joy to here... 
help me get into gospel
Mapleshades recording of The ARC Choir will blow your socks off...Also try Leap of Faith soundtrack and The Fairfield Four "Live From Mountain Stage" 
Audiomecca Mephito 2 tracking problems at end of c
contact Anthony at Aberdeen Components... 
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Biggest Live Miss 23 years ago today............
I missed the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tour in Chapel Hill. I was working 70 hours a week on a major consulting project 2 hours away and had just been to Chapel Hill the night before to see The Clash... After only 2 hours sleep and 10 hours ... 
Aloia PST11.01Preamp w/phono
I've had the aloia pre-amp in systems with plinius SA-100s amps, aloia 13.01 amps and goldmund M28 amps driving both Dunlavy V and Piega C-40 speakers. I've found it a great general use pre-amp. Solid performance with an open and detailed sound. I... 
Best Frank Zappa´s Recordings
In 1976 I bought a german import of Mothermania (an early hits record) at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville. It still sounds great today.For content, Hot Rats, One Size Fits All. 
Upbeat music suggestions?
The Vinyl Kings - A Litte Trip (Almost a beatles reunion)Linus Of Hollywood - Your Favorite Record Album (it will be)Corey Harris/Henry Buttler - VU DU Menz (great blues duo)Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick (pop/funk/jazz)Pink - Missunderstood (... 
Speaker Break In- my experience
I just about died when my dealer delivered a new set of Piega C-40 speakers. I thought they were just plain bad for several weeks. I wondered if it could be amps or cables or cosmic rays... I bitched and moaned at my dealer until he was surely sic... 
60's/70's Talking/Singing Story Ballads
Mickey Newberry "Frisco Mabel Joy" is the ultimate. 
Best mid-size speaker, cost no object
I'm currently listening to Piega C-40s. The break in was lengthy and they need lots of current to really fill a large room, but the sound is really something special. I have never been a ribbon fan, but these are very smooth with incredible detail...