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#332,265
RedVee said:
Can I return to the receiver, cd player, amp talk for a moment?

I was wondering if you guys take a cd or album with you when shopping for new equipment?

In my case I was shopping for my first CD player (I had about 25 cds though!). My mate and I went out equipped with Dark Side of the Moon and tested the CD players with “Money” and “Time”. We both bought the same Denon player, to which I added a Denon amp and Mordaunt Short MS5 speakers.

What song/s do you guys play when road testing new cd/record players?
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I remember doing that in the mid 1980’s when I was buying my fist CD player.

DSOTM was an obvious demo disc but so was PF Wish You Were Here. At the time, to my ears, the Denon and Marantz players sounded warmer and less sterile than the Sony players of the same era. Pretty much the same experience with the integrated amps.

For turn tables the soundtrack to Star Wars was my vinyl of choice and I found Pioneer players to be a really good bang for the buck. Then again it was PF “Wish You Were Here” in four channel stereo, kind of a precursor to surround sound.

At that time (early 1990’s) most of my cars had cassette tape players so I copied my CDs onto Cassette for car use and found the Nakamachi decks to be better than most at recording on metal cassettes. I mostly tested with Bach or other classical CDs because of the dynamic range of the recordings.

Headphones are where it all became really important to test with the hifi music you played frequently, my choice was Queen “Play The Game” and “A Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.

Then when DVDs came out I used The Fifth Element and Mulon Rouge to audition players, projection TVs, projectors and video sound systems.

From about 1980 to 2000 I spent a small fortune in audio and video equipment, always chasing the latest technology or the highest quality components. I threw in the towel when my stereo system had morphed into a 7.2 audio video nightmare. I don’t have any of that equipment anymore, gave it all away or sold it piece by piece. Last I looked Marantz was touting an 11.2 system. Glad I gave it up when I did.

Coincidentally, that’s about the time that I started playing bass - guess where all the money is going these days - LOL.
 
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#332,268
GBassNorth said:
I remember doing that in the mid 1980’s when I was buying my fist CD player.

DSOTM was an obvious demo disc but so was PF Wish You Were Here. At the time, to my ears, the Denon and Marantz players sounded warmer and less sterile than the Sony players of the same era. Pretty much the same experience with the integrated amps.

For turn tables the soundtrack to Star Wars was my vinyl of choice and I found Pioneer players to be a really good bang for the buck. Then again it was PF “Wish You Were Here” in four channel stereo, kind of a precursor to surround sound.

At that time (early 1990’s) most of my cars had cassette tape players so I copied my CDs onto Cassette for car use and found the Nakamachi decks to be better than most at recording on metal cassettes. I mostly tested with Bach or other classical CDs because of the dynamic range of the recordings.

Headphones are where it all became really important to test with the hifi music you played frequently, my choice was Queen “Play The Game” and “A Crazy Little Thing Called Love”.

Then when DVDs came out I used The Fifth Element and Mulon Rouge to audition players, projection TVs, projectors and video sound systems.

From about 1980 to 2000 I spent a small fortune in audio and video equipment, always chasing the latest technology or the highest quality components. I threw in the towel when my stereo system had morphed into a 7.2 audio video nightmare. I don’t have any of that equipment anymore, gave it all away or sold it piece by piece. Last I looked Marantz was touting an 11.2 system. Glad I gave it up when I did.

Coincidentally, that’s about the time that I started playing bass - guess where all the money is going these days - LOL.
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My auio systems have remained simple. I can’t hear very well anyway. I have some nice older tables with decent cartridges for the vinyl fix.

Back in the day Stereo Review ran a piece emphasizing that the best money one could spend to upgrade a system was to get their ears cleaned.
 
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JIO said:
Unfortunately maintaining a band can work... or not. Key is aligning with those who 1) you get along with, and 2) you are on the same page with, and build your band around that. Straight forward, but not easy.
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Well said. And your #1 would be mine as well. I would much rather play with people with less talent, but are more mature and easy to get along with than people who are great, but you would never choose to be around them otherwise.

All of my favorite band settings were people I knew, knew of (or were initially friend of a friend). In those situations we were also friends outside the band setting. The situations I could have lived without were where I didn't know the guys and we were filling slots basically. No gelling. No lasting ether. I found when members are friends it's worked better even in the difficult times because the friendship was as important as the band aspect.
 
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I cracked up when I saw this from the water Co about keeping pipes from freezing. It's the image that's the problem. Maybe someone with more insight than I have can explain this. Otherwise it looks ai to me.
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