loomisjohnson
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| Tight bass sub recommendations martin logan dynamo is a really fast, tight sub which should pair well with the maggies--very good value used. | |
| Need Help with Voltage for Integrated ruebent, i'll do exactly what you suggest--i'm 99% sure you're correct. thanks. | |
| Any experience with this amplifier? likewise i have no experience with it; however fwiw a very knowledgeable friend of mine took a flyer on a chinese naim clone amp for around $250 and was actually pretty impressed. there are also a lot of quad450 clones on the market--they are skil... | |
| Beach Boys Pet Sounds by Analogue Productions i agree 100% with bdp--for all the acclaim pet sounds always sounded compressed and bad to me, with notably thin low end. brilliant songs, however. | |
| Modestly priced bookshelf speakers for cabin. n80, you've gotten some good suggestions like the acoustic energy and klipsch quartet (if you have the space); my personal recommendation would be to look for a good 80s speaker like the ads l520, which are easy to find <$200 and sound shocking... | |
| Looking for Recommendation for AVR steve: i personally don't hear a ton of difference between the mass market avrs--i've had good luck with pioneer elite and yamaha; others will recommend denon or marantz; i've heard people complain about onkyo's reliability. if you look at accesso... | |
| Which atmos reciever/preamp / integrated has the best room correction built in and atmos? concur with the above--anthem has the best room correction i've heard | |
| One of the best tweeters ever, whatever happened? i owned a pair of the optimus pro (5x?) with the linauem tweeter--they really did sound refined, but they wouldn't play loud--did anyone else have that experience? | |
| DAC/Streamer Advice +1 on bluesound--inboard dac is quite good | |
| Tune of the Day matthew sweet, "passerby"--he's been prolific of late, with three new albums this year--i initially thought they sounded good but somewhat formulaic until i heard this gem, which is as purty a song as he's written | |
| For streaming Spotify and Tidal will a DAC improve quality over a Cromecast if you've connected the chromecast w/an optical cable, you're already using the dac in the rotel and not the (probably inferior) internal dac in the chromecast. if you're not happy with how the rotel sounds, you can of course get an external dac--... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? i love animals and actually admired the final cut, which alienated a lot of fans--it's depressing but the songs stick with me some 35 years later, which i guess is the sign of a good record. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? i actively hate everything pink floyd did after waters departed + everything waters did after leaving--the records have the sonics but none of the spirit | |
| What artists deserve a box set over view/compilation? wire--been cranking out great records for 40 years | |
| Can a 75 ohm digital rca cable be used in place of a regular rca interconnect? in theory a digital cable may have a higher nominal impedance than a conventional rca audio cable; the extent to which you can hear the difference is another matter. i've used 75ohm digital cables as a 2ch audio interconnect (and likewise used a r... |