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| Your Top Five for 2003 Roscoe Mitchell - "Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancing Shoes" (Nessa)Faruq Z. Bey w/ Northwoods Improvisers - "Ashirai Pattern" (entropy stereo records)Griot Galaxy - "Live at the D. I. A. 1983" (entropy stereo records)Dennis Gonzalez New Southern Quin... | |
| What's more important; sound or brand name? Of course, the sound is most important. With radically different-sounding gear receiving competing raves, I think that one should respect one's ears, not brand names. | |
| Lee Morgan I've never found "Sidewinder" to be as compelling as much of Lee Morgan's other work. "Search for the New Land", "The Procrastinator", "Cornbread, "Lee Morgan Vol. 3", "Lee Morgan/Last Session"; most anything he did with Blakey; Joe Henderson's "M... | |
| Name three of yours the most favourite drummers Ed BlackwellAndrew CyrilleElvin Jones | |
| How did you hear about Audiogon? I heard about Audiogon a couple of years from a friend who occasionally buys and sells gear on this site and has, consequently, put together a fine, cost-effective audio system that is destined to always be a work in progress.I am not nearly as af... | |
| How to respond to those who say it's not a hobby? I think there could be some semblance of a hobby in the adroit assembly of components for the reproduction of sounds, but much of this activity is often just luxury consumerism.The most compelling part of this activity or hobby, to me, is the musi... | |
| What subwoofer can i use with my speakers? Many folks seem to prefer speaker level connections, hearing and/or thinking that there is a better match/integration with the main speakers if the subwoofer receives the same signal from the amplifier as the main speakers. I can't say that I've n... | |
| What music have you been buying lately? I bought 3 enjoyable CDs within the last month:Jemeel Moondoc- "Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys"Khan Jamal- "Balafon Dance"William Parker- "O'Neal's Porch" | |
| What's under YOUR CD player? I've experimented with foam pads of various densities, with mixed results. Now that my CD player is enclosed in a heavy custom oak cabinet, with nothing under it except the stock feet and the oak shelf, it sounds better than ever. | |
| What subwoofer can i use with my speakers? When I was auditioning subwoofers 1-2 years ago, Velodynes were outclassed by the Rels and the Vandersteen that I heard and the ACI Titan II LE that eventually chose.Also I've read from many Maggie owners who are very pleased with their ACI Titan ... | |
| What is your most beautiful component? How my components look is not very important, because most are enclosed in a beautiful Custom Shoppe oak cabinet designed just for that purpose.My ACI Titan II LE looks quite nice for a subwoofer and offers excellent performance sonicly and as an ... | |
| Where does your user name come from? SEK are my initials. | |
| Best Frank Zappa´s Recordings I have a lot of Frank Zappa. I've enjoyed most of his music since soon after "Absolutely Free" first came out in the '60s.I don't know that these are his best, but these are the six that I think I play the most these days:"Freak Out""Weasels Rippe... | |
| Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" I agree with 4yanx (except that, for a variety of reasons, I now usually play CDs).If I had to choose a favorite Miles Davis recording (thank the universe, I don't), I'd probably choose "Miles Smiles" ... or maybe "ESP" ... or sometimes "Big Fun" ... | |
| Vandersteens and subwoofers other than the 2Wq? He started with the variable crossover that came with the 2WQ and from there, after consulting our local Vandersteen dealer, determined the proper value for the higher quality fixed Vandersteen crossover for which he paid an additional charge. 75 ... |