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What are you Listening To Right Now? - and more

djwhy60 said:
You know me @FOH Engineer ....if I can :bowdown: Rat Shack gear, I can accept just about anything.
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Actually RS gear is a big favorite with John Panzer that owns Just Audio. He has a very high opinion of most their legacy Hi Fi, and the stores only piece he wont sell is a completely restored 30 watt Realistic Receiver that's always on every time I go there. Their fit and finish and conservative specs numbers that always underpromised and over delivered is a big reason the stuff is still out there and still working.
 
FOH Engineer said:
Actually RS gear is a big favorite with John Panzer that owns Just Audio. He has a very high opinion of most their legacy Hi Fi, and the stores only piece he wont sell is a completely restored 30 watt Realistic Receiver that's always on every time I go there. Their fit and finish and conservative specs numbers that always underpromised and over delivered is a big reason the stuff is still out there and still working.
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SSSSSSSSSSSShhhhhhhhh! Don't tell too many people....I can still find some on the cheap!!:rflmao:
 
dswann01 said:
I hadn’t really thought about things in those terms either, even though I have a few LP’s that make me sit up and take notice at the sound quality, and I do enjoy those rare gems. I started wondering about this topic after my son recently asked if there were any albums I wanted for Christmas that fit this criteria. I didn’t have a good answer on that - I just like what I like. But I thought - who better to ask than the folks on this thread for future reference.
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Right.
I have the music that I listen to, and I have the stereo that I listen to it on. As long as nothing sounds amiss than I'm not going to start chasing my own tail trying to make it sound better.
 
FOH Engineer said:
Actually RS gear is a big favorite with John Panzer that owns Just Audio. He has a very high opinion of most their legacy Hi Fi, and the stores only piece he wont sell is a completely restored 30 watt Realistic Receiver that's always on every time I go there. Their fit and finish and conservative specs numbers that always underpromised and over delivered is a big reason the stuff is still out there and still working.
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I was raised on RS stuff. As a pre-teen and teen, I used to dream about the cool systems in their catalogs.
 
Virgil said:
I made a playlist for evaluating new headphones and speakers all of which seem to pile up slowly. I had 22 pair of speakers at one point, down to a more manageable 10 or so. Here are some I'm using that I think are useful YMMV of course:

Of course I use these because I do think the recordings are pretty good though I'm no expert at all.

Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go
Yosi Horikawa - Bubbles
Jorge Autuori Trio - A Kind of Hush (thanks to Beau for turning me on to that!)
Pharoah Sanders - Astro Traveling
The Beatles - Come Together (2019 remix)
Peter Tosh - I Am That I Am.
Takacs Quartet - Beethoven String Quartet No 13 in B-flat major
Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight (2008 remaster)
Bob Marley - Waiting in Vain
Grateful Dead - Unbroken Chain (2013 remaster)
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For me a great track that comes to mind and shows just about anything a quality rig can reproduce across the entire bandwidth is Ray Montfords "Spirit Runner" This is the Twin Peaks of guitar craft

The track itself is very exotic, and the instruments used to create it are very cleverly woven together.
He is probably the one guitarist I know of that has a rabid cult following with absolutely no media exposure. He's a musical genius that just happens to play guitar. Dont expect shredding, or ripping solos , his intelect, use of musical colors and expansive production style is way past past shredding which he can also do.

On youtube:
 
Delmarva said:
Right.
I have the music that I listen to, and I have the stereo that I listen to it on. As long as nothing sounds amiss than I'm not going to start chasing my own tail trying to make it sound better.
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That's in a nutshell what the Audiophile podcast I posted the link for yesterday basically says over the course of an hour of great hi fi info. Right here on this thread the way we are doing what what we do with gear is what the designers intended. His matter of fact discussion blows the gear snobs out of the water, and he designed alot of it. Hey Frank he even gives a very big dose of cool kudos to Sherwood Receivers ( I remember you having one) and your exact Pioneer Turntable.
 
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