martykl
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| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K I'll second the Ohm recommendation and add Magnepan. The latter is tall, but has a small footprint. | |
| The Best & Rarest of all Stereo Gear Two brands come to mind:MFA (Moore, Frankland and Assoc). Bruce Moore had his own eponymous company, too, which produced the Companion (sic?) preamp. I think it was his highest profile design and it had its moment in the sun some time back. How... | |
| Obscure bands LenMc801 is a good choice (provided they're obscure enough), but they did release several live albums in addition to their sole studio release. I'd assume that "801 Live" (their first release) is their best known recording, but the studio record ... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... Richard Thompson - Two Letter WordsFleetwood Mac - Say You WillLos Lobos - How Will The Wolf SurviveRosanne Cash - The ListRockpile - Seconds of PleasureId be pissed at myself pretty quickly, but that would be true of any five I chose. | |
| Help wanted: Bass! I believe that Emerald Physics is distributed by Wally Underwood at Underwood HiFi. He also handles the DSpeaker products which include a competing (and IIRC somewhat more expensive) bass eq device. You might call Wally to discuss the relative m... | |
| Best music for romantic interlude No one for subconscious lyrical messages?"When times go rough, won’t you lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff."- Second Hand News, Fleetwood Mac | |
| The King Of... Evelyn "Champagne" King? | |
| Good CDs Bad Recording Todd Rundgren's 1989 masterpiece "Nearly Human" is nearly unlistenable. Todd's a hero, but he made some uniquely terrible sounding records IMO. | |
| Anybody else using a distributed array sub system? Spkrplus,To clarify my solvency remarks from an earlier post to this thread, I certainly wasn't talking about any issue I had with the solvency of your business. I was talking about my own! The distributed array subwoofer is mighty tempting and ... | |
| Anybody else using a distributed array sub system? Noble,I've always liked the idea and briefly screwed around with a four sub home-brew version. It worked well, but just took up too much floor space. Your set-up makes a ton of sense to me. Enjoy.BTW, I thought that James Romeyn used to carry g... | |
| Best music for romantic interlude Depends on the girl. If I'm with Bo Derek (as I usually am), I'll most often opt for Ravel's Bolero. | |
| Who remembers the Dahlquist DQ-10's? Was Tumultes the place with a model train that ran around the room on tracks near the ceiling? | |
| Can the KEF LS50 rock? To me, Bob made the really relevant comment early on:"The LS50 begs to be high passed" (maybe low-cut would be clearer).The speaker looks great with smooth (and very gently falling off-axis) frequency response. However, it can't produce really cl... | |
| "5 Records You Should Own" article I usually have issues with lists of this type, but I gotta give 'em some credit for "Hidden Gems of Classic Rock". They went Five for Five on their choices, IMO. | |
| subwoofer crossover- lowest is best almost always? Personally, I'd always try to cross a sub at somewhere between 70hz and 80hz or so. Note: I use an active cross-over and this observation may not apply at all to those who don't.Getting the kick-drum fundamentals (typically 50-60 hz) directed to ... |