And now for something completely different. The best album ever made.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

Wow. Nice rig. I am sure that you can stream high quality audio and play it on that.
Astell & Kern? What do you use?

I must be old. I have a bit of tinnitus or maybe more than a bit. That shit would blow my ears and my brains out but I respect it.

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

We know.

https://youtu.be/4O_YMLDvvnw?si=SylpK4xZ0Tm2dsMj

Wrong

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[Little Red L98.]

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[markids77]

The Who... album of the same name.
Simon and Garfunkel... Sounds of Silence or Wednesday morning 3AM.
Bad Company... album of the same name.
Crosby, Stills and Nash... album of the same name.
Neil Diamond, Procul Harem, The Doors, Blues Traveler, The Allman Brothers,
Pete Seeger, Jerry Jeff, Clapton, I could go on.
There is no Best Evar... only a selection of true greats.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by markids77

The Who... album of the same name.
Simon and Garfunkel... Sounds of Silence or Wednesday morning 3AM.
Bad Company... album of the same name.
Crosby, Stills and Nash... album of the same name.
Neil Diamond, Procul Harem, The Doors, Blues Traveler, The Allman Brothers,
Pete Seeger, Jerry Jeff, Clapton, I could go on.
There is no Best Evar... only a selection of true greats.

No best evAr. Fun to discuss.




Fk iron gheyden.

Respect. No. Maybe. No.

[Vette40th]

If you have time, listen to this guy. Technique is great, not as old as some but still a fantastic guitarist. Its basically an entire solo. Disregard the get up and just enjoy.
There are so many great albums. But, you have to like the music too..

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[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

If you have time, listen to this guy. Technique is great, not as old as some but still a fantastic guitarist. Its basically an entire solo.
There are so many great albums. But, you have to like the music too..

https://youtu.be/dyQJH615KwA

Bucket head got chops. Not my favorite. Not bad actually.

[Little Red L98.]

This dude.

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[Vette40th]

When I was a kid, 70s, I had limited access to music. Heavily influenced by my 5 year older sister. Motown to Led Zeppelin, And various other bands.
But, Black Sabbath, KISS, AC DC ( Back in Black is right up there too), Judas Priest , Iron Maiden were my primary bands. Always looking for something different, and new.
But when Def Leppard produced High N Dry, it just rocked. Just a simple great album, still sounds good to this day..

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by Little Red L98.

Best album ever

https://youtu.be/tigLvVwKcKc?si=6ybTbvyW8DvY0Ln5

I can list 5 off the top of my head that are all at least 50% better.

Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Brave New World - Iron Maiden

Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden

[simpleman68]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

Wow. Nice rig. I am sure that you can stream high quality audio and play it on that.
Astell & Kern? What do you use?

That is my friends setup. He's the analog guy and I'm back to digital after a revisit to analog a few years back.

His rig in that pic:
McIntosh amp and pre-amp
Arendal speakers
Musical Fidelity
Nordost wires
Turntable I forget the mfr but the damn tone arm upgrade was $5k

My rig: (pic below)
Pass Labs 260.8 mono block amps
Wavelet DSP/Pre-amp
Oppo 105
Sonore Signature Rendu streamer
Legacy Aeris speakers
Nordost wires

Scott

my room

[OnPoint]

Originally Posted by simpleman68

That is my friends setup. He's the analog guy and I'm back to digital after a revisit to analog a few years back.

His rig in that pic:
McIntosh amp and pre-amp
Arendal speakers
Musical Fidelity
Nordost wires
Turntable I forget the mfr but the damn tone arm upgrade was $5k

My rig:
Pass Labs 260.8 mono block amps
Wavelet DSP/Pre-amp
Oppo 105
Sonore Signature Rendu streamer
Legacy Aeris speakers
Nordost wires

Scott

my room

Your buddy's setup - what would something like that cost?

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Raazor

I can list 5 off the top of my head that are all at least 50% better.

Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Brave New World - Iron Maiden

Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

When I was a kid, 70s, I had limited access to music. Heavily influenced by my 5 year older sister. Motown to Led Zeppelin, And various other bands.
But, Black Sabbath, KISS, AC DC ( Back in Black is right up there too), Judas Priest , Iron Maiden were my primary bands. Always looking for something different, and new.
But when Def Leppard produced High N Dry, it just rocked. Just a simple great album, still sounds good to this day..

Wore that one, and On Through the Night, out. And then Pyromania came around, and suddenly EVERYBODY was a Def Leppard fan.

YouTube

YouTube

[Raazor]

[markids77]

Originally Posted by Raazor

I can list 5 off the top of my head that are all at least 50% better.

Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Brave New World - Iron Maiden

Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden

You have terrible taste in music. I feel bad that you think your ears must bleed to find aural nirvana.

[Raazor]

High 'N Dry was a great album. And early awesomeness for its time. Certainly under-appreciated

[simpleman68]

Originally Posted by OnPoint

Your buddy's setup - what would something like that cost?

He's into it for about $100k

Only piece I would change is a massive upgrade to speakers. Those Arendals are solid for their price point but they're a bit small for a full range speaker and freq response is a bit shy on the low end.

I think in room response we only measured in the high 30Hz range.
That and the mids are a bit bright but that's just preference for me.

But the clarity and depth of sound from that turntable blows me away. Something about vinyl that gives a holographic stage to the music that the 1s and 0s of digital, while bit perfect, just loses somewhere.
Too much work for me to chase it though. Digital is clean, clear, and very low distortion and S/N and all that jazz.
Scott

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by Vette40th

When I was a kid, 70s, I had limited access to music. Heavily influenced by my 5 year older sister. Motown to Led Zeppelin, And various other bands.
But, Black Sabbath, KISS, AC DC ( Back in Black is right up there too), Judas Priest , Iron Maiden were my primary bands. Always looking for something different, and new.
But when Def Leppard produced High N Dry, it just rocked. Just a simple great album, still sounds good to this day..

I saw Def Leppard when the drummer had two arms. Rocked the shit outta the joint then the scorpions came on and rocked the shit out of it some more. Klaus lost his shit when his mic wasn’t working and a roadie almost died flying across the stage to fix some shit.

That’s how you rock.

[Little Red L98.]

Originally Posted by simpleman68

He's into it for about $100k

One hundred kay.

Can we be friends? I have a c4.