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iPod: Questions and Options
Do you mean Shure E2? THe model tested and reviewed at http://www.linkwitzlab.com /Reference Earphones link...anyway, twist the foam between your fingers to minimize its size and install in ear, hopefully before it returns to normal. Once in your ... 
sonny rollins
Saxophone Colossus is supposed be his best recording, and is certainly the most popular, but if you want to hear him really stretch out, listen to his 'A night at the Village Vanguard' (a BlueNote 2-disk live session).Both recordings are rated 5**... 
iPod: Questions and Options
Though mid-fi at best (in .wav format) I use reference earphones (Shure E2 $100: tested and reviewed at http://www.linkwitzlab.com with my 40g. and am alble to lisetn for long periods without fatigue.BTW I also use the phones to listen to source m... 
Jazz recordings on CD
Remastering can be misleading. The labels have to work with the original masters and if they are poorly engineered so will the remaster be.I think is is necessary to evaluate not only album by album, but within an album, track by track. They often... 
Transparent users... Question
It is there for all to see (gulp) 
Vandersteen 5a. How refined a product are they
Vandersteen is Stereophile favorite. Big advertisers though. I have no doubt PSB or especially any B&W will out perform them. Or, the dipole designs will even out perfrom those. That is, electrostatic; planer/ribbon; or especially dynamic driv... 
Transparent users... Question
Though that is not how to define, 'audiophile'. SRather, such persons are in search of audio Nirvana. A state where with little or no effort one is transported on the ship, 'psycho-acoustic phenomenon', to the Auditorium, or Recording studio, wher... 
Speaker w/F.R. 100hz & Receiver Bass crossover
Elderford >You certainly may stick with your opinion, in fact you are stuck with it! >You could have gone all day without saying that :-) 
Speaker w/F.R. 100hz & Receiver Bass crossover
20hz makes the difference between say, a 60hz max extension, and a 40hz. There are those who go to great lengths, like integrating subwoofers in the system, to achive that difference, so consider it a big deal indeed.That is my opinion, and I am s... 
Speaker w/F.R. 100hz & Receiver Bass crossover
Divide the length of the longest wall in your listening room into 565. It gives you the lowest frequency your room will accomodate.For instance, a 10x12 room is good for 565/12=47hzYou want the full frequency range provided: to extend to the 47hz.... 
Tube Amp Suggestions
ATI, ...though I continue the search for low distortion (<0.1% THD/IMD over a respectable frequency range, somewhat greater than 20hz-20khz) tube amp with say at least 40w of power.I would use it for the main panels of my active eq/xo 2-way ope... 
Tube Amp Suggestions
Yea. I agree. Lets talk audio. How you doing? 
Transparent users... Question
Define 'amazing'. But if you regurgitate the redundant poetic characterizations used by all 'connoissers of coloration' I will throw up :-) 
Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR?
The fight is called, 'King of the Mountain', typically played by boys: before they (hopefully) mature into more civilized, cultured men. Men who love and respect their wives and nurture their children: not gong outside the relationship to vent the... 
Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR?
Do you mean that if I was intimidated by this posse, fell into line, succumbed to, and enabled the 'teacher/student' relationship you all so fervently campaign for, that I would be accepted into your cyber classroom: if I will sit quietly in the b...