blindjim
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| "They are here" vs. "You are there" 1. As much as Lowell Thomas and later, Walter Cronkite were big proponents of the "you are there" news reel and then TV show... I'm more into having the entertainers standing in front of me... saves on parking, trip times, traffic, gas, etc.It als... | |
| Room Treatments - How? I'll second the consulting with a pro or two prior to throwing in a lot of money towards treating the room.Ensuring all is set up well and the bass is as good as you can do first, is way important too.There's tons of DIY info on rolling your own t... | |
| Listening VS Reading ElizabethHmmmm.... it sounds like there sure were some problems. Are you sure it was sex, or was it that the music itself was bad instead?? ;-))= = == = = = = = = Music for me is more the dedicated event. Casual or background listening for myself ... | |
| Your Personal Soundtrack CwlondonI feel your pain.... find the remote and die it. | |
| Integra 9.9 v 40.1/.2 MAIN DIFFS ?? Mceljo yes... I did a bit back, looking thru the diffs from one model to another. I missed the 50.1 completely though. I saw only the two 40's and 80's.Ghstudio Thanks. I'm really not interested in another reciever this go 'round... ONLY a proc. 3... | |
| Your Personal Soundtrack Sunday A.M. - Gospel Bluegrass; Bluegrass; Alternative Country/Americana.Reggae or some upbeat Pop or Rock - for Working in the houseWehn writing/working where concentration is important - Smooth Jazz or Classical; or some other non verbalizing au... | |
| Integra 9.9 v 40.1/.2 MAIN DIFFS ?? 3-D... yeayh... that and the 7.2 analog inputs. Makes sense. MceljoNew for $300? I'd have been to skeptical to have bought it, personally.50.1? Sweet jumpin' jellyfish! Integra engineers need to lay off the cafine. People are going to get gun shy ... | |
| Integra 9.9 v 40.1/.2 MAIN DIFFS ?? Ghstudio wrote>> One very big difference is that the 9.9 has Audyssey Multeq XT and the 40.x's only have multeq<<and that's big? why?money, I'm afraid to say is a major consideration now... I'm going to need to stay around the grand ma... | |
| How is Mid Fi defined? Were you able to buy it for 3 Kellogs Frosted Flakes box tops and $10?Well . Have no fear . Thats not MID FI.6 boxtops and $50 . Now were onto something.If youve paid enough for it to have bought a very nice new import vehicle instead its no... | |
| small room questions My office is about exactly that size. But its full of racks, gear, computers, Desk, file cabinets yeah. Theres scant little room for walking around. I use two 40 in tall 3 way towers. No sub. Theyre my desktop speakers. Sitting on either side ... | |
| Looking for warm sounding speakers A little bit more in the budget and you might be able to nail a pair of Silverline Sonata IIIs... preowned. Floor standers your amp can drive well. they'll play any genre well and will reveal as much as your components will allow . Sweetest tweete... | |
| Why do old tubes sound better than current tubes? I think the very lable of 'NOS' is misleading.Unless my parents or some other close relative bought some of these claimed "NOS" tubes when they were young and can now recall it vividly, and kept them in a box clean and dry for the past several dec... | |
| Speaker footers – Ugh To spike or not to spike… that answer is going to be all your own.A multitude of threads here have so many varied themes and practices there’s legitimately no one particular solution. No ‘one size fits all’ remedy. The only general aspects to spea... | |
| OT Congratulations NY Yankees Gawdbless If you look closer... you'll see the Dominican Republic, mexico, Japan, Canada, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and probably a good many more places being represented. Mexico is next on the docket to get a franchise I think.= = = = Being a yankee fan... | |
| Ideal preamp for Krell FPB 200 Blueskywalker I also had a krell preamp in my past. I agree with you... and find tubes better suited to that amp.Im not really up on the Euro models apart from some that may well not fit your price range. Audio Note comes to mind. Theres some in... |