Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8

Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8

Sep 11, 2007

"'Music's first offering, an eclectic, disparate, but mostly functional compendium of influences from 5000 B.C. to present day, hints that this trend's time may not only have fully arrived, but is already on the wane,' [editor in chief Ryan] Schreiber wrote. 'If music has any chance of keeping our interest, it's going to have to move beyond the same palatable but predictable notes, meters, melodies, tonalities, atonalities, timbres, and harmonies.'"

low frequency "disaster" with Mc Tube amp

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by apiccar on

First of all Hi all as I'm a "rooky" in this Forum.

The reason of this post is that I'm facing an issue with my Amp: a McIntosh MC2102 (8 KT88 valves).

Everything was OK (perfect, I would say...) for about 7 months. Then, all of a sudden, I switched everything on and I started to listen an annoying presence of "boomy" sound when low frequency instruments were played. I'm not talking about some extra-bass but a "boomy-effect" (sorry if I do not use the right terms... my English is really poor) that is really disturbing also the medium frequencies.

bugdet system

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The Entry Level
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Newbie here; first post. I'm looking for a simple, basic ~$1000 system. Probably 2-channel will do it. I have only a $100 Sony DVD/CD player on which to watch DVD movies and play CDs. Just started looking. A sales guy said Rotel, NAD, and Marantz are the only companies that now make 2-channel integrated amps. I listened to Rotel reciever/CD combo with Paradigm Titan V5 Bookshelf monitors. I thought it sounded great; but then I've been out of loop for a few years on this stuff. Price offered was Rotel RA-1062 for $599, and the Paradigms for $450 (open box).

First setup - advice please

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The Entry Level
Submitted by potterlu on

Hey all,

I'm new to the audiophile end of things; I've been collecting vinyl here and there for a couple of years and am finally poking around at getting a decent stereo setup.

That said, I am looking at the following components, and was wondering if anyone has anything good or bad to say about them?

Speakers - B & W 684s
Amp - NAD C352
CD deck - either NAD C525BEE or C542
Preamp - NAD PP-2

Front and Center

Front and Center

Sep 10, 2007

Magnepan's Wendell Diller promised to demonstrate "an intriguing solution to the center channel," which was nebulous enough. Imagine my surprise when he demoed his new solution with a stereo! A three channel stereo, true, but a stereo nonetheless.

Edge/Montana

Edge/Montana

Sep 10, 2007

Don't get me wrong, I heard some very good two-channel sound at CEDIA—Thiel and Wisdom Audio leap to mind—but arriving at the Edge Electronics/PBN Montana room at T.H.E. Show was a breath of fresh air. Why? The Denver Convention Center is a noisy place and even the "rooms" are merely shells set up within that vast space. The Denver Athletic Club is both solidly built and quiet.

Edgar, a Poet to a T

Edgar, a Poet to a T

Sep 10, 2007

I grew up in Charlottesville, VA, where E.A. Poe briefly attended college without matriculating. I used to visit Poe's bedchamber, which has been preserved as a memorial,and gawp at artifacts that almost certainly had no connection to him. Somehow I had the impression that we Charlottesvillians appreciated his gothic world view more than other folks.

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