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| Thiel CS3.6 with issues: take the chance? Wow this is unprecedented neat unanimity, which makes me suspect my formulation of the issues. Anyone wanna sell me some thiel 3.6 in perfect functional and unobjectionable cosmetic shape? If not, what else you got that can clearly compete as a de... | |
| Thiel CS3.6 with issues: take the chance? Wow that's some impressive cynicism, Kacz. | |
| Thiel CS3.6 with issues: take the chance? Thanks all. Pops: It happened in every recording I listened to -- about 6 or 7 different ones. There were two sources (CDP and computer), one amp. But the salesman listened with me and then again later and was convinced that there is an audible pr... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Learsfool: I'm curious whether you include John Adams as a minimalist. I completely agree with you about Glass, but think Adams is terrific, and prefer his music to Reich's. Nixon in China is in particular a masterpiece. Nixon the man will be know... | |
| What is Imaging? Very predominantly an artifact of recording, engineering, and playback. Hearing live music in a typical location in a typical venue, there is a sense of spaciousness, but very little localization of instruments, even left to right, let alone back ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman,Thanks for the great clip. Sizzling stuff. | |
| Best Band of the Big Band Era ? Ellington. I mean, it's Ellington. | |
| Zappa's Uncle Meat vs. Uncle Meat. FWIW my blue label Bizarre sounds great. | |
| Anyone know about Mitsubishi hi fi eqpt? I have the F10 tuner, P10 Pre and a10 amp, and quite like them. Amp seems more powerful than it's rated. Cool looking too. Your pre and tuner are yet better than mine -- and you have an MC stage in the pre. They certainly could use recap, align, t... | |
| What brand did you leave Rega for? Rega Planar 2 >> Nottingham Interspace w/Rega PB300 >> Nottingham Interspace with Nottingham arm >> Nantais Lenco L78 replinth with SME series III >> Nantais Lenco L75 Monster replinth with AT 1005 mkII and Grace 747 arms. ... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System Democrat here -- well actually way left of that or anything on the American political spectrum. Not sold on cables -- especially power cables. Am sold on the infinite suggestibility of human hearing and the infinite capacity of people to delude th... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Learsfool,The tuba player/violinist story was a bit of a cheap shot. My point was of course that absent familiarity and appreciation with a wide range of classical forms and formats, one is not really in a position to rank composers. My tuba playe... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Yes, well, Wagner, real important and all that, for sure. Highly influential. His experiments in tonality, chromaticism, and the unification of forms all obviously a big deal. But a) he wrote Opera only (or almost only), and b) the classical forms... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Silly question, but here goes.Incontestable top 5, chronologically: Bach Mozart, Beethoven Brahms, Stravinsky.Next 5, slightly more contestable, again chronologically: Haydn, Schubert, Ravel, Bartok, Shostakovich.Nah. On second thought, the second... | |
| So what would you do, if . . . ? Follow up: Unit (SA-8004 -- which I mistyped in the OP) went back to dealer. They tested it and found the voltage regulator in the charger/USB port to be compromised. But they claim that it was most likely caused by the logic board in the iPhone g... |