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| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I've owned a pair of Polk Audio SDAIIs since the mid-80s. Finally made the move to upgrade. I'd upgraded other components of my system during the past 20 years and the Polks always seemed to step up and reveal the improvements - this includes rece... | |
| Best bargain for speaker that can offer top sound I have a pair of Polk SDA IIs that I have enjoyed since the '80s. Good imaging, soundstage, transparency and bass response. As I've made upgrades to the system over the years, these speakers seem to have "stepped up" at each step along the way to ... | |
| beautiful piano recordings: solo or small ensemble Check out W.A. Mathieu's "Available Light". He has a web site. I only have it on cassette but it sounds great and seems well recorded. Solo piano. Kind of in the Windham Hill tradition. | |
| best rock voices What a neat thread...so many great singers. I also messed up my previous post and wanted to list as my #1, Paul Rogers (especially, as someone else mentioned, singing All Right Now with Free).Names posted by others that I forgot but completely agr... | |
| best rock voices Now I just read Chris Whitley had died. | |
| best rock voices Robert Plant Freddie Mercury Van Morrison (Van the Man...maybe not really rock, though)David Lee Roth (the REAL mouth of Van Halen)Roger Daltrey the lead singer for Boston (can't recall his name)the dude that sang for Starship in their later comme... | |
| What is bias a tube amp ? Is it difficult? Biasing is NOT difficult. Own a JoLida 502B. | |
| Best TT under 2K? Just took deliver of KAB USA modified SL1210M5G with Stanton audiophile cartridge. Am enjoying the music very much. Amazing challen separation and imaging. | |
| Appearance of Totem Forest FWIW - we remodeled our kitchen in cherry. Depending on the tree and layer of wood used there are going to be differences in how it accepts stain. I'd say, don't sweat it...but I'm no wood expert. Just going on our personal experience. |