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| Magnepan vs. Martin Logan I react most strongly to the differences between the dynamic envelopes of the two speaker lines. The MLs are more articulate at low volumes and are more efficient, playing louder with less power. This favors orchestral and big band music that has ... | |
| Why do you never near anything about Spectral I have owned a lot of the gear discussed in this thread, including a Spectral preamp and amp for many years. I loved the stuff. This combination was absolutely clear, timbrally lovely, with great frequency extension, and a dynamic nuance that I've... | |
| Mom wants a shelf system or laptop speakers.. I bought my wife a Tivoli Model 1 radio to which she attaches her iPod. Compact, sweet sounding and, substuting a CD walkman for the iPod, affordable. | |
| Grado Reference vs Benz Glider and H2 For me, the Benz cartridges occupy the middle ground between the fast, highly delineated sound of the uber moving coils favored by most audiophiles, and the rich, smooth textured sound offered by the Grados, Shure V15s, etc. In addition, the Benz ... | |
| solid state amplifier for martin logan cls 2 speak I got fantastic results with a Spectral DMA80 running full range, along with a pair of Kinergetics subwoofers run off of a separate preamp out. Very transparent and tonally lovely, defying conventional wisdom. I found it more musically satisfying ... | |
| This time the "HYPE" is true: Monk/Coltrane CD. Oh, how I wish I had been alive to have witnessed this live! There is music making on this disc that is supernatural. I've seldom heard Monk more deftly lyrical. Coltrane's ferocity has almost never been as tempered by intellect. Abdul-Malik defin... | |
| Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 7 vs. Kharma 3.2 I listened to both, in depth, in several different systems, over several months a few years ago. These were the current versions of both speakers at the time. I don't know what their designations were.I found both designs to be extremely pleasant ... | |
| cd/lp racks for future music room I recommend the modular furniture from Per Madsen Design. The stuff is attractive, well designed and well built. I've been using his stuff for almost 20 years and I've not had a single problem. Check it out:www.rackittm.com | |
| The song you just cant stop playing??? Prince's "Musicology", from the CD of the same name. | |
| Best Moments in Audio; the "System Switch" I recently went from a system using solid-state Spectral preamp and amp driving full-range Martin-Logan CLS electrostatic speakers to a system using tubed Wright Sound WPL20 preamp and Music Reference RM200 amp driving Wilson WP7 dynamic speakers.... | |
| Your Favorite Music Fron N'Awlins? Henry Butler defies categorization. | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? The oldest piece of gear in my possession is a pair of Scott "bookshelf" speakers that were purchased by my father in 1967. The "bookshelf" designation was always questionable in my eyes because they are very heavy and have such prodigious low fre... | |
| Piano only... The Art Tatum Solo Masterpiece series from Pablo is absolutely essential. He was arguably the greatest soloist in Jazz history, and these recordings will tell you why this is so. | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx No agenda...are you kidding?!! I haven't seen pissing in print like this since the great sniping contests between Absolute Sound and Stereophile in days gone by. How Mr. Hardesty can claim to have made impressions of systems (those of Fremer and H... | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall - a highpoint of Western music if there ever was one. |