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Re: Usher Mini Dancer 2
Boy if I was home I’d be trying to sell my Usher towers to help finance these ! I have the smaller ones on stands in my living room but haven’t heard em for a while! My Marantz receiver took a dump on me so I’m gonna have to deal with that first! Good luck with sale and I can testify anything usher makes is nothing short of amazing! Whoever gets lucky!
tophatjohnny
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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
Yes 90125 on vinyl is one of the better recordings I have heard on my rig. Amazing detail and soundstage,
blew me away. Best sounding CD so far were Rush Greatest Hits and Alan Parson Project I Robot.
blew me away. Best sounding CD so far were Rush Greatest Hits and Alan Parson Project I Robot.
vulcan
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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
Best recordings: Later Steely Dan (2 against Nature/Everything must go); any Donald Fagen
Most dynamic range: George Michael "Faith"
GM/Faith!...indeed. I also have to say Prince/Purple Rain but my 80's @ss is a bit biased lol
SDA1C
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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
Allow me to add a few more:
Julian Lennon-Velotte
Pure Prairie League-Bustin Out
Supertramp-Cannonball
Marshall Tucker Band-Self Titled
Julian Lennon-Velotte
Pure Prairie League-Bustin Out
Supertramp-Cannonball
Marshall Tucker Band-Self Titled
CSM41
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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but:
Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
I'm a Steely Dan fan. I have used "Aja" and "Gaucho" as reference recordings for a long time... until I heard "Two Against Nature".
This album was recorded in a fidelity that was not possible when "Aja" and "Gaucho" were recorded, as good as they may be.
The dynamics, smoothness, clarity, punch, and overall badassness are unlike any recorded album I've put my ears on. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up if you don't already own it.
Personal favorite tracks:
- Gaslighting Abbie
- What a Shame About Me
- Janie Runaway
- Almost Gothic
- Negative Girl
Enjoy,
Ben
Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
I'm a Steely Dan fan. I have used "Aja" and "Gaucho" as reference recordings for a long time... until I heard "Two Against Nature".
This album was recorded in a fidelity that was not possible when "Aja" and "Gaucho" were recorded, as good as they may be.
The dynamics, smoothness, clarity, punch, and overall badassness are unlike any recorded album I've put my ears on. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up if you don't already own it.
Personal favorite tracks:
- Gaslighting Abbie
- What a Shame About Me
- Janie Runaway
- Almost Gothic
- Negative Girl
Enjoy,
Ben
falconcry72
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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
I'm kind of a newb to this 2ch stuff but I really like sound of Stevie Ray Vaughn - In the Beginning CD and also The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over CD
leadfoot1
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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
Absolutely!
I've always thought that light waves somehow interfered with sound waves.Yeah,I know it's supposedly just a matter of removing distractions,but it seems there's something else going on there.
It has everything to do with removing visual stimuli from your listening experience. If you are staring at the speakers your mind associates the sounds coming from the two boxes in front of you to a certain degree. Turn off the lights, close your eyes you remove the visual stimulus of physically seeing the speakers and your mind can concentrate solely on the sounds and many times it's a different experience.
H9
heiney9
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Re: Coffee
stangman67 wrote: »I bought a Kaleido M1.
How's the Kaleido? I purchased the M2 (last Dec) to up my game, moving from a Gene Cafe that I've used since 2009. Didn't get the Kaleido tablet...went Pro to use w/the Artisan software. Have done 2 seasoning roasts but, unfortunately, in the middle of house renovations, so the Sniper has been neglected. Will say, holy $hite...my first roast went nuclear really quick and caused the roaster to shut down. Not a fault of the roaster, rather, my lack of understanding the software/parameters. Looks to be a learning curve compared to my years of using the Gene Cafe.
Don't know when I'll get time to experiment w/the M2. Roasting a predictable and consistent batch is #1 priority ATM vs. getting the Kaleido going until I have time to dive in.
Kaleido patiently waiting to replace the Gene Cafe....
So far so good, I struggled on the first roast. ET dropped sharply at the beginning and then I cranked the heat and the ROR was all over the place.
On the subsequent roasts I’ve gotten the base method down pretty well, preheat at 190C for 20 minutes. When I drop the beans, drum to 80 percent, burner to 50 percent and exhaust to 20 percent. And that does very well as a base with only needing minor modifications as the roast goes.
I think I’ll regret not going straight to the M2 but the M1 was about as much as I was willing to spend on my first foray into roasting.
stangman67
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