dawgfish
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| Good Matching Preamp with Pass Labs X350 Miles Davis "Take Five"? | |
| Ayre V-5xe best tube pre-amp to match with? I don't have, but have heard Ayre amps paired very nicely with VTL tube preamps. Very musical combo. The VTL 7.5 is amazing, but very pricey; believe the new 6.5 or even the 5.5 might be a match. | |
| CJ vs. BAT vs. THOR preamps, who's best? In terms of your initial inquiry and the concept of mating tube pre w/ SS amp, my dealer has successfully matched VTL preamp with Ayre amp for a very involving sound. Lots of detail, good extension at both ends of the frequency spectrum, and a rea... | |
| SACD Player Shootout As long as you're in public service mode...perhaps you could share some general thoughts from the group about the delta between redbook CD and SACD performance in general. I currently only have redbook capability, but have been toying with the not... | |
| Live Recordings One blues and one rock:BB King, "Live at Cook County Jail"The Who, "Live at Leeds" | |
| Suggestions for a budget amp Here's a completely different perspective. Everything in college is about one thing: helping you get laid. :-) So go for some tubes (Cayin, Antique Sound Lab, etc) that will give the dorm room a romantic glow to impress the ladies that you lure in... | |
| Top Five for 2005 So, I can't keep it to five, but I (think I) can keep it to single digits: Tord Gustavsen Trio, "The Ground"Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, "At Carnegie Hall"Jackson Browne, "Solo Acoustic, vol. 1"The Waifs, "A Brief History"Alan Broad... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Dave's True Story "Can't Get You Out Of My System:""Who would have thought I would come to such griefOver some little bucket of tease?Just goes to prove my most fervent beliefThat love's still the cruelest venereal disease."Actually, I think DTS h... | |
| Great music but poor recording recommendations. Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey" -- some great music, but a pretty rotten sounding redbook CD. Perhaps the worst sounding LP I've ever owned is (a blast from the past here) Mott the Hoople "Live." Sounded like the music was struggling to emerge from ... | |
| Good workout music for baby boomers "Audio" by Blue Man Group is very up-tempo and works for me on stationary bike, elliptical or rowing machine. Another favorite is Allman Brothers Band, especially a couple of the songs on "2nd Set." Happy Listening. | |
| Decent stereo amp / pre amp on relative budget I think you'd be hard pressed to beat the Ayre CX7e integrated. There's a used on listed for $2400 (and I'm in no way affiliated with Ayre or that seller). Would still leave some moolah for more music, which is always a good thing!Happy listening! | |
| what's your latest music "score" Went into a store looking for Rob Wasserman's "Solos" (acoustic bass), but they only had "Trilogy" -- a compilation that included "Solos" as well as "Duets" and "Trios." Wasn't sure how interested I'd be in the latter two, but when I saw they'd ma... | |
| Unintended lyrics To this day, I don't know whether the real lyric in the Motown song (is it by Smokey Robinson?) is "I second that motion" or "A second-hand emotion" or something different from both... | |
| underrated or unheard of musician/band Back in college (late 1970s), friends and I listened to Reverberi an (I think) Italian, keyboards-based group that did jazzy, mostly instrumental interpretations of classical music. I do remember that one of the LPs had a female vocalist w/ one of... | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? Then and now. The first system that opened my ears to what audio was all about was in 1972-ish: Dynaco tube pre- and power amps, Garrard Zero100C turntable, and Pioneer CS99A (15" woofer, 4-way) speakers. Of course, in retrospect, it wasn't that s... |