Maddmaster

I prefer Digital, CD, SACD. Streaming Spotify and iPod for convenience when I have a house full of guests. I still have just over 400 LP’s that are stored in sealed bends. Turntable is also stored.

Looking good there

Volume One by Kool & Klean on Spotify. Nice and Smooth Jazz with a room filling Bass and Sax.

Jade, you can feel relaxed here. Great people and willing to share knowledge and experiences.

He hit each and every point I thought of. Sound Quality is also very objective. What I like could sound like crap to someone else and visa versa.

Nick Colionne - The Journey

I prefer Spotify. The big difference for me is using the Browser and picking songs from list respond so much faster. Pandora has a lag once you click a song. Spotify is almost instantaneous.

Welcome. Your post made me burst out laughing. Make sure your next lady respects your love of equipment. It'll make life easier. Glad you found us. Lots of help and great people are here.

I've been there too often. LOL. I've loss track of how many drivers I have smoked.

I put my own tracks on a CDR and let it play. My taste is different than most here.

Security system or not, I wouldn't let trash like that in my place... Or the speakers. You're right. I was much younger back and a risk taker. I wouldn't do it now in these times.

IT'S TRASH!!!!! That white van trick has been around for years. Used to sit in Circuit City and Best Buy parking lots waiting for people. One day I told them let me test them out in my house that wasn't far from the store ( I knew the security system in that house was pretty much fool proof). When I hooked them up they couldn't compare to anything I had. Not even close. I was running Bose 901VI's at the time. The power amp almost killed the white van speakers. I sent them packing and have warned people every since. They were even on the news here as a scam.

Welcome to the best site and group of people ever. If you mean a slight humming sound through the speakers it may be related to the RCA cables on your input at the pwr amp.

I actually have a DBX 224 sitting stored away. PM me.

Welcome. Sounds like you found the right place. We'll keep that obsession growing. We like pictures.

Sounds like congratulations are in order!!!

Welcome Dnspy007. You have an awesome setup there. You did it right posting pictures before we had a chance to ask for them. LMAO

Yes I have many of their (Heads Up) CD recordings. Hiroshima Greg Kaukas Joyce Cooling Najee Pieces of a Dream Spyro Gyra Gerald Veasley Walter Beasley Peter White Yellow Jackets Take 6 Pamela Williams Jeff Lober Fusion Doc Powell Dave Weckl Acoustic Alchemy Alexander Zonjic Candy Dulfer That's my little Heads Up catalog.

Al Jarreau on Spotify

Update: I have a running count of the votes. There are two I marked but are not counted because they didn't determine whether Reference or Other. There are more tracks than space. LOL There were a few comments that female vocal tracks are non existent in the list. That's not a huge deal for me since I prefer mainly non vocals. An example for me is the first reference disc. Most of the tracks on disc 1 were vocals. If I could have removed the vocals of some they were more enjoyable. However, it's for the group so it's for all of you to decide and vote. Just my opinion.

There are more than likely are quite a few of us that like to put music compilations together on a disc and our portable media players. If it's possible and enough members want to do it, (depending on the Administrators and rules for the site) I propose those compilations deemed worthy could be shared. The site always has an album playing in the upper top corner. They could be shared there for a short period of time. It would give many of us exposure to a lot of music we haven't heard. What are your thoughts?

Rather than rush out a half ass disc/product I am willing to extend the time to whatever we need. So disregard the Saturday cutoff. I just thought we were closer to a final list. I will however tally all votes Sunday to give everyone a picture where we are.

Reference disc or Other?