twoleftears
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| Vintage vs Modern speakers. Billie Holiday sounds GREAT. It sounds as if we're in a fairly small jazz club. Impressed. | |
| Can someone suggest a lush tube integrated under $3000 used Conrad Johnson is the obvious one to look at. There's the CAV-50 and nowadays the CAV45-S2. | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? In my Yugo I dare not turn on the transistor radio that I carry with me (none in the car): I need to listen constantly and carefully to see if anything else falls off while I'm driving along, as well as for more strange sounds from the engine block. | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system 1. Concordia Viols - Crye by Concordia Viols (2001-10-02) - Amazon.com Music The gorgeous sound of the consort of viols will tell you everything you need to know about a speaker's midrange.2. John O'Conor - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (M... | |
| New speaker cables recommendations sought Budget?Acoustic Zen would be worth looking at as well as Cardas.Wireworld is more middle-of-the-road but inclining in the directions you mention. | |
| Bernard Haitink, R.I.P. Cut my teeth on the Solti cycle with Decca, recorded between 1964 and 1971. I wonder how Decca of that vintage compares with Philips. | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. The Altec has more immediacy, more presence, more you are there (or is it, they are here?) feel to it. But then when heard against the Lansche, the Lansche make the Altecs sound a little lean (i.e. not full-bodied) in the timbre department. The ... | |
| Member Make Zero Sense I was thinking of so many things he didn’t know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry ... | |
| Two speaker Qs The material used and the exact construction of the cabinet can be very important to the sound. Fancy veneers and piano black, automotive finishes, can add mucho $$$. So it varies model to model, brand to brand.For 17K the loudspeaker world is p... | |
| what's going on with specs? Welcome to the world of audio specmanship.Find some magazine reviews of units you're interested in; certain mags in the U.S. and Europe test the amps and publish results, so you can actually compare apples with apples. | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max The other trade-off you're looking at here is new vs. used, and I think it should factor more into the discussion. Otherwise you're not comparing apples with apples. Do you want the peace of mind that comes with a new unit (and, likely, the abil... | |
| how would you describe a system that is musical in nature I think a lot of audiophiles reach this point in their journey, at which point some of them bail, some make a major course direction, some scrap everything and start over, and some continue listening because current audiophile orthodoxy tells them... | |
| On ''what there is'' OK! On to Searle... | |
| Bryston ??? Bear in mind also that Thanksgiving in Canada was October 11. | |
| On ''what there is'' TIme to throw some Wittgenstein into the mix! |