kitch29
Responses from kitch29
| Best Component Ever, for the money Best value by a wide margin is an Audiogon classified for 2 bucks! Best deal I ever got was an VPI HW-19 with ET-II arm and Signature DTi for $1400, then my ex-wife discovered the meaning of the legal term, fungible. Best component value, a used M... | |
| What s Your Frame of Reference? This may seem simplistic but I use a familiar recording to get a quick sense of the "tone" of the component, then the imaging. If these are favorable, I listen more carefully to try to discover something I haven't heard before in the recording. Th... | |
| Music to make you laugh by Of course, that's not really fair, I could play all the notes, just not all the time. And there are 100's of orchestral inside jokes. The music? There are works with humorous themes like Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Lt. Kije but they don't... | |
| Music to make you laugh by There's nothing funny about 103 conservatory trained geeks that belong to a union. That's why I never made the cut. | |
| Music to make you laugh by You can't mention Spike Jones and Peter Schikele without including the late Victor Borge. Phonetic punctuation, anyone? | |
| Music to make you laugh by Sorry, Detlof, that was actually off topic and I meant to include Dizzy Live at Newport II. Everyone's having a ball and it shows. | |
| Music to make you laugh by Bob and Ray, yeah; gotta do a search. I wonder if they recorded baseball a la Shakespeare: "never have I seen so fair a foul". Good on ya, Elgordo. | |
| Need SS preamp that sounds like tube . "poxy moron", great! but what the heck is PRAT? | |
| Any DIYer s out there ? I got the DIY bug after soldering up a pair of Homegrown IC's without blowing up the equipment or burning down the house. Recently, in talking to Rodger Modjeski about tubes for my RM-10 amp, we got on the subject of passive pre-amps. He opined th... | |
| Paypal Article of Interest Sugarbrie- EXCELLENT, DUDE! | |
| Where will be hi-end audio in 2050? "Computer, play the Bruno Walter version of the Mahler Second but replace the choir with the one from the Solti/Chicago version." | |
| Essential Classical I also had the Concertgebouw with Davis. Thinking about my late vinyl collection, I'm going to need a drink. Anyway, I can't now compare the two, but my enthusiasm for the '63 version stems as much from the quality of the CD as from the performanc... | |
| Break-in factor rqd for new cd player? Play one of those pre-natal CD's, you know, Mozart for your baby? It might learn to upsample while it's breaking in. | |
| Applause: Bummer Tiredguy- I loved it; edsel- legal friends? | |
| Applause: Bummer I like it, Sd. From now on, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. It also makes sense. Applause. |