hce1
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| USB Cable Let me start with a disclaimer: my system is modest in comparison to those of others who have responded to this question. A move to a smaller home 10 years ago forced me from my multi-component tube based Counterpoint system, fully upgraded by Mik... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @tylermunns Thanks for that list of Carole King songs. It’s incredible and I’ll be listening to them all week long. @bdp24 Thanks for initiating this thread. I’m enjoying it thoroughly! I haven’t the understanding of music theory to approach... | |
| Being alone with your music Sitting alone as a child in my room listening to music on my portable record player or old tube AM radio made me who I am today. And, of course, it made me a loner, someone totally self-sufficient, comfortable with my own company. Hail, hail rock-... | |
| What was your first record? Went to visit a friend one Saturday when I was eight and wound up spending the afternoon in his older brother’s room listening to rock and roll 45s. Begged my folks for a copy of Dion’s The Wanderer. My first LP was The Beach Boys Surfin’ Safari, ... | |
| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? Excellent question and some excellent recommendations already. Here are three jazz lps I love that I didn’t see mentioned yet: Gil Evans, New Bottle, Old Wine Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch +1 for previous... | |
| Hidden Gems in Classic Rock Albums +1 for the Kinks, 1966-70 +1 for the Band, The Shape I’m In, add Daniel and the Magic Harp Nilsson, Pandemonium Shadow Show (She Sang Hymns Out of Tune, 1941). Aerial Ballet (Good Old Desk, The Wailing of the Willow). Nilsson Schmilsson (everyth... | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? Lots of interesting comments here. I agree with many of them. Here are my two cents. Nabokov said that you don’t really know a book, understand the artistic achievement or quality, until you’ve read it five times. We can quibble about the number ... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? I have to speak in defense of Yoko Ono. First, the “let it be” documentary seems to me to communicate clearly that the dissolution of the Beatles is far more complicated than any assignation of responsibility to only one or another of the band mat... | |
| Ridiculous assertions that someone is being ripped off or conned There are two separate issues here. First, several of the comments conflate disrespectful and insulting comments with demands that personal observations be supported with scientific data and theory. There is never a reason to be rude in your respo... | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. The effect of the Internet on the audiophile industry/community is more complex than our discussion has acknowledged so far. Long time a'goners will know that the Internet, especially A'gon, not only has changed the audio marketing landscape, but ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Love Trigger Hippy. Tonight though, I'm listening to Griot Galaxy, Kin. | |
| Looking for recommendations for a pair of full range speakers for ~8k or under I think you identified in your opening post some excellent options. I’m especially fond of the SF Olympicas. I also recommend the Maggie’s others already have called to your attention. One speaker I haven’t seen recommended, but think worthy of c... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! Generalizations suck! In my room some recordings sound better in digital format and others in analog format. As somebody mentioned above, the native recording format tends to be the best playback format. But, even that observation is a rule of thu... | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? Let me address your question more directly: yes you can enjoy fully a stand-mounted speaker. While I had doubts similar to those you expressed, I am completely satisfied with long-term critical listening experiences using the reference 3A speaker... | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? I used to have a much larger listening room in a much larger home, and spent a lot of time with two of the floor standers you mentioned, Maggie 1.6s and Vandersteen 2a signatures, driven by fully modified Counterpoint amp and pre-amp. Six or seve... |