emrofsemanon
Responses from emrofsemanon
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? i also believe in "tone control courage" IOW using definitive electronic means to correct an incorrect frequency balance in a given recording. | |
| Tube or solid state i like the tubey sound of the rega brio amp. unfortunately the little thing runs at least as hot as real tube equipment. but it sounds sweet. | |
| Why Do Some Recordings Sound Great and Others Dead? i've noticed there is a wide variety in sound quality from recording to recording, even those made in the same studio with the same people. a lot can go wrong between the studio and your listening room, at multiple steps along the way. some record... | |
| What I wish I knew before starting my audiophile journey figured out how to easily become a millionaire first, in order that i could afford all that is required to join the hobby. all the reviewers on stereophile seem to live in quasi-mansions with 12 foot ceilings and 40 foot wide listening rooms, and ... | |
| Absolute Sound's "Reviews" my disappointment regarding Stereophile is with their relative paucity of objective descriptions of some key parts of stereophonic sound reproduction of speakers, namely imaging specificity/depth, reproduction of inner detail, width of "sweet spot... | |
| Favourite Guitarists ry cooder. his playing is distinctive. | |
| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? major "mule" holley, his contrabass grunt of a voice is a perfect complement to his string bass. | |
| Subwoofer boom is too much for me... less likely your port is the problem and more likely you have incorrect slope and x-over frequency relative to your main speakers. fixable to a certain extent. | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? kathleen battle [classical] - sheer aural beauty and agility over gravity. tie between karen carpenter and patsy cline [pops - both had rich alto singing voices of complexity and emotional power] julie london [jazz/pops], a contralto powerhouse... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions remember there is always the contrast between recording quality and performance quality. this said, these are my go-to-performances [i value performance quality over recording quality] but there is some overlap described below- Fritz Reiner/CSO r... | |
| Heist/ crime songs me and my uncle [from the grateful dead's "what a long strange trip its been" album] | |
| When CDs first came onto the market in 1982 ....... the phillips and sony machines were the first i'd heard late '82/early '83 at Pacific Stereo. i liked the sound of the phillips better [warmer] but the sony had real alphanumeric display while the phillips just had red LED lights. | |
| Is a highly discerning system enjoyable? there is much to be said for taking problem recordings, digitizing them, removing the problems, then burning them onto a CDR for future listening. then there is "tone control courage." case in point is the 1999 columbia rerelease of the famous 193... | |
| What's the oddest thing in your music collection? *"the portsmith sinfonia" "plays" the classics" [more like slays 'em, as on this record each player picked up the next player's instrument and tried their best with it, with predictable results. *"shut yo mouth" - major holley and slam stewart pa... | |
| Vinyl record cleaning how do the record company pros clean their master disks? |