cornfedboy
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| Rack Advice ndmaitre: i quite agree with all the earlier posts re: decoupling, floating, etc. but suggest you scrap the idea of using wood veneered shelves. get some exotic wood for the posts and rails and use a resonance deadening shelf material, such as tha... | |
| Tweaks just to be on the safe side, i removed ALL carpet in front of and between my speakers and replaced it with bent-grass sod. it was a real trick to adjust the sprinkler system so the overspray doesn't reach my amp but , now that the tweak is complet... | |
| Fuse or braker for dedicated lines? bishopwill: ok, you wanna' be consistent: tell us YOUR experiences with different fuse/breaker types. if you have no such experience, then you've no right to criticize, even politely, those who do. now do you understand MY point? -cfb | |
| Acoustic Energy and Totem i owned ae-1's several years ago that i powered with a pair of rowland model 1's ran bridged. ( i also added a pair of entec lf-20's later on -what fun!) one of my sons owns ae-2's that he powers with an accuphase integrated (e-306); he's recently... | |
| Skipping vs. Drop Outs not "High School " brad: AFAIK, "drop outs" are generally, if not always, recording or production faults present on the cd. they are manifested by a sudden drop in volume or an extremely short bit of silence where sound ought to be. "skipping," OTOH, can be caused b... | |
| Mark Levinson's Guide to Better Sex didn't jimmy cliff do the soundtrack for the soon-to-be released motion picture based on the book? as i recollect its titled "the harder they come." -cfb | |
| Fuse or braker for dedicated lines? bishopwill: fact is, worldcup has been around here longer than you have. and, while he may not be quite as articulate as our newly-anointed shrink/confessor, he does have an attribute missing in your makeup: a desire to learn without the constrain... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time mes: thanks for your second on guy clark's "cold dog soup" but townes van zandt didn't write any of the songs on that cd. sure you're not thinkin' of "poet-a tribute to TVZ." guy's on that one, too. -cfb | |
| Most eye-opening upgrade and what you learned judith: welcome to the 'gon! having been at this hobby for roughly 35 years, i've had quite a number of eye (or ear)-opening experiences. i'll share a couple:first, listening to my lp's on a decent turntable after they sat neglected for a couple o... | |
| Best Web site for Audio. here are a couple of great sites that provide links to manufacturers. the first site also lists publications and lots of other stuff related to audio. the second is hyper-linked:http://www.wssh.net/~wattsup/arsl.htmlhttp://www.1388.com/directory/a... | |
| Under rated speakers due to price....? jimmy: there's a fly in your ointment. i've listened to <$2k speakers played on $100k worth of electronics and they sounded great. but most $20k speakers played with the same electronics in the same environment sounded much better. i know you a... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time john_l: for a great intro to guy clark, i'd suggest one of his latest, "cold dog soup." wonderful stuff.-cfb | |
| Mark Levinson's Guide to Better Sex rumor has it that mark's dad had 1/4 komodo dragon blood coursing through his veins. which, of course, would explain mark's (reputed) 12-inch tongue. -cfb | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time of course bob and bruce rule. i'm surprised,tho, that no one's put any female singer/songwriters on their lists (but for joni mitchell). how about: carole king, ani defranco, shawn colvin, iris dement? and on the male side, how can pete seeger, ja... | |
| New amp models from Krell, how about preamp ? if krell remains true to form, of course there'll be a new pre. i mean, there's been a new model pre in the line every quarter for the past 10 years. and so it goes. or so it seems. -cfb |