rushton
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| Eidolon vs Opus Rich, The Eidolons continue to be the best speaker I have ever heard, but I've not heard the Kharma's, Sound Lab A-1/U-1 or some other contenders. If Jtinn is not using a fair amount of hypberbole in his comparison -- you should buy the Kharma (bu... | |
| Using a studio monitor for home listening? Karls is exactly right -- some of the monitor speakers that grew out of the BBC legacy have excellent reputations for accuracy. Also, there are some others such as the original Wilson Watt and the specially modified Avalon Acoustic speakers used b... | |
| Using a studio monitor for home listening? Rockvirgo, my only add to your comments is that they imply that studio monitors are "accurate". Often they are not accurate but have tipped frequency extremes and/or upper midranges to exaggerate certain portions of the sound spectrum - those inac... | |
| Using a studio monitor for home listening? No incompatibilities, but very often commerically available studio monitors probably are not the best (as in "most natural") speakers for high quality music reproduction in the home. Never made much sense to me that this was the case, but the need... | |
| could someone recommend some good acoustic music If you need something on CD, get the Opus 3 label's "Test CD 4" -- it is an outstanding collection from a number of their acoustic recordings with a mixture of classical, jazz and "popular" music.Opus 3's classic "Depth of Image" LP (nla) continue... | |
| Philadelphia area audio club? Invitation...Those in the Philadelphia area who have some interest in getting together informally to share some music, listen to some different equipment or listen to one another's systems, are encouraged to post here and to send an e-mail to one ... | |
| What are the "Must have" LP's? The LP recommendations on Arthur Salvatore's website are a very worthwhile starting point. Arthur includes detailed discussions of each of the LPs he has recommended.http://www.high-endaudio.com/index_ac.html | |
| Philadelphia area audio club? I've just registered with HarmonicDiscord board and will be posting some additional information there once I receive my registration key. Did not know that a Philadelphia forum existed. Thank you, Suits_me, for trying to create some additional exp... | |
| Speaker Cable for Avalon Eidolons I'm running my Eidolon's with Alpha-Core/Goertz AG-1 (silver) speaker cables connected to Atma-Sphere MA-2 amps. Its a nice match. But matching the speaker cable to the amplifier is as, if not more, critical than the match of the cables to the spe... | |
| Atmasphere MA-1: mk1 vs. mk2? Albert makes a good suggestion. Ralph was extremely helpful to me when I was considering buying a used MA-2. There was never any question about my buying used versus new, he was more than willing to answer all my questions even though my decision ... | |
| Where is the best place to buy Chesky, Sheffield? And there is also Music Direct, with a wide selection of both CDs and vinyl.http://www.amusicdirect.com | |
| Review: Conrad Johnson PV-9 Tube preamp Very nice review and commentary, Peter. Thanks. It's good to hear from someone else who enjoys the highly underrated PV-9 preamp. And I wholeheartedly agree that the phono stage in this preamp is it's greatest strength. If your unit was not upgrad... | |
| System Reference Recordings Aliu, CD recommendations are more problematical for me since I listen primarily to vinyl. Hopefully, others will contribute. Here are a few orchestral CDs that I've found well recorded and reproduced: Opus 3, COPU 8502, Concertos For Double Bass a... | |
| System Reference Recordings Here are some orchestral recordings on LP that will let you hear how well a system is performing. I've tried to keep mostly to some reissues that should still be available through the usual mail order sources (marked with *). Stravinsky, Firebird,... | |
| Mahler...OK I'm hooked The following symphonies are good performances with good sound quality - all on LP...Symphony 3 - Horenstein/LondonSO, Nonesuch HB 73023 or Unicorn RHS 302/3 (as Newbee suggests)Symphony 5 - Barbirolli/NewPhilOrch, EMI SLS 785 or Solti/ChicagoSO L... |