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| Ugliest Speakers??? Virtually ALL floorstanding speaker (ie boxy speakers) leave everything to be desired vis-à-vis aesthetic appeal. | |
| What is the best Beatle Song Nowhere Man ... still love to listen to it ... once in a while | |
| Crossover-less Speakers Cain Abbys ... actually I had the SuperAbbys, and I had the Cain sub, but the Abbys alone were ... especially with an Almarro A205A ... startling from moment one. Big, open, immediate, dynamic, plenty of range ... simply mind-opening; they made bo... | |
| Best Band That Never Was Make every effort to find Suzanne Rhatigan's "To Hell with Love" ... kind of like an energetic Janis Joplin, but a clear combo of blues, jazz, and pop. Will NOT disappoint, at least not in absolute terms. | |
| What is the one CD you can't find? Without parallel, in my estimation, the truly superlative Wally Badarou recording, "Chief Inspector." Stunning stuff, far outpaced even his considerable lesser efforts. I had it in both LP and cassette formats, and a couple of his subsequent recor... | |
| connecting sub to integrated with no rca out I drove my Fostex-driver speakers with about 5 watts, plus tapped in a powered sub through the speaker taps ... turned out to be the best audio setup I'd ever had ... Almarro and Cains, along with a Lector player. Simply wonderful. Go for it, SD s... | |
| Unison Research Hybrid Integrated Amp: How Good? Not sure about the Prelude sensitivity rating, but I'm fairly sure you'd be much happier, and totally impressed, by the Unison tube amps/integrateds. Upscale Audio has some nice prices for same listed in their "sale/pre-owned" section, and the Uni... | |
| Need list of 92db speakers and above. Check out Bob Brines speakers, as well as those listed by Decware. | |
| Tube or not to tube? Tube amps don't require herculean efforts nor advanced degrees, but they do require one to use sufficiently appropriate speakers in order to achieve a listening experience that goes far beyond what you've experienced with SS, though many would dis... | |
| How good is the Lector CD player? Lector ... through Artistic Audio Imports. Earlier this year there was a US importer/distributor problem, to put it mildly, but aaudioimports.com was named the new national distributor and things improved/settled down, or at least enough for me to... | |
| B&W Nautilus 804 Speakers + MAC4300V? I don't remember exactly, but the 804s are fairly sensitive. I ran mine with a 20-watt MF class A amp and then "upgraded" to a 100-watt Classé integrated. Both were more than fine/sufficient for my listening needs, though the MF was by far the sup... | |
| Cain & Cain Abby , placement ,care and phase plugs Terry Cain told me to use orange oil or even ArmorAll, as he uses a lacquer finish on the Cains. I've had my S-Abbys/Bailey for 18 months now, I'm on my 4th (and final) amplifier, and 3rd (and final) CD player. I'm still very happy with what I'm h... | |
| Best object in your listening room. A window to the outside world that measures 6'6" x 11' ... it offers a lot of indirect northern light and everything I see is like a silent movie | |
| Out of curiosity, where does everyone live? 45 miles straight west of Memphis ... I can hear the gunshots from here! | |
| Isoclean fuses: definitely worth it I'd like to try some Isocleans or HiFi Tunings ... but I need a 12.5A fuse for my amp (5x20mm) and seem to be out of luck. An Isoclean supplier wrote to say that Isoclean would soon offer a 12A at 5.20mm (slow-blow), but the amp manufacturer can't... |