viridian
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| Herbie Hancock best recordings That's George Benson's "White Rabbit", not "White Record". | |
| How big a change would this upgrade make? Stand pat; ya gotta know when to hold em, and when to fold em. | |
| Herbie Hancock best recordings My apoligies, I mean Hancock's classic albums on the Blue Note label, engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. These are straight ahead jazz as opposed to the Funk that came later with his group the Headhunters or the rather stylized music of more recent ti... | |
| Herbie Hancock best recordings Czarivey, I believe you are referring to Herbie Mann. Hancock's Blue Note recordings are a very good example of the old adage that, the better the music, the worse the recording. I'm not so high on late model Herbie, but "The River" covering the s... | |
| What would you upgrade? "...more space, higher ceilings..." What aisle is that on at Best Buy?I think that your system seems well balanced, but since you did not mention it, I would have a look at power management and cables. Enjoy! | |
| music with clear placement of the instruments. My apologies for hijacking the thread, can anyone please help the gent with his query? I am not of much use as I do not select speakers based on this criteria. | |
| Do distortion 's affect enjoyment of speaker? Speakers can have many types of distortions, divergence from linear frequency response on-axis, divergence from linear freqency response off-axis, time based distortions, IM distortion, dynamic distortions such as compression, distortions of rise ... | |
| Getting ready for new cart If the stylus is not excessively worn I would send the cartridge to Andy Chong to have a new damper installed, the cartridge cleaned and aligned. If it is totalled, he will tell you and not charge for his services. Then again, we all get the upgra... | |
| music with clear placement of the instruments. A bit off-topic, but when you go to a live concert, and close your eyes, do you hear a very clear placement of the instruments? | |
| CD player, audio out, discrete vs. op-amps..? This is like trying to judge how tasty a dish is based on if it uses domestic or Hungarian paprika in it. | |
| Do distortion 's affect enjoyment of speaker? No distortion does not affect the enjoyment of loudspeakers, and no there will be no consensus on this, so stop hoping. | |
| Why a separate DAC? To answer the question a player is a mechanical transport and a DAC in one unit. If either half breaks, and cannot be repaired, or is not worth repairing, the other half goes out with it. Mechanical devices being, very broadly, more subject to fai... | |
| what will be the best old CLASSIC amp to rebuild. Pass Labs Aleph 3, Bedini 25/25 and Krell KSA 50 are all worth looking at if high power is not a priority. | |
| Interconnects Versus Phono Cables The sheilded AQ cables should not be a problem, unsheilded Kimbers may pick up some hum, however they do make a dedicated phono cable that should work well.The only mitigating consideration would be if you ever intend to use a MM cartridge, in whi... | |
| Supex Cartridge Query Audiogon is a great place, if you can determine, with some certainty, the value of the individual cartridges. Selling them as a group will probably not net you as much. If you feel the need to let the market set the price, ebay may be the way to go. |