OFF: What hi-fi equipment do you use to listen to Hawkwind?

[Alisa]

I see now why you wrote so many bad reviews... No proper drums, no proper
bass, just noises you hear...

> Personally I use anything that's to hand and try to hear the music and not
> what it's being played on.  Aiwa shelf system in the bedroom, Sony boombox
> in the bathroom, bog standard cassette player in the (elderly) car, very
> loud Yamaha component system in the living room...but what I always do is
> mess with the tone controls, and put the graphic equaliser, if there is
> one, into a kind of "M" shape.

I think the sound on vinyl is more flat and lifeless than on cd. The only
case when it can be lifeless on cd is when the recording is badly transfered
from vinyl without proper mastering.

> I also think some of the "neutral and lifeless sound" is the flat response
> of CD's compared to the aurally pleasing distortions of vinyl...just IMHO
>
> Steve
>
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> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:33:06 -0500, Alastair Sumner
> <alastair_sumner at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> >I was wondering what kind of hi-fi equipment people on this list use to
> >listen to Hawkwind. For the past ten years or so I've had a Nad 5220 CD
> >player, Nad 3020i amplifier and Mission speakers. Despite the clear sound
> >I've always felt frustrated at how neutral and lifeless it sounds. I
can't
> >put my finger on it but I used to enjoy music more playing LPs through my
> >old Aiwa midi system. Now I've decided to bring my vinyl back from the
dead
> >and invest in a Rega P2 or P3 turntable and will probably build a new
> >system around it. So what kind of equipment do you use? And what do you
> >think makes Hawkwind come alive?
>