czarivey

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How does one "Get lost in the music"?
I usually get lost when I hear Kenny G, Celine Dion, Yanni, Justin Timberlake, Madonna and Neil Young.Certainly pop music isn't for me and prefer to listen to REAL musicians. A good packed quality bowl of weed blended with great progressive rock s... 
How to meaningfully audition speakers??
Wolf, Can I purchase a ticket to your concert?Make sure I will have enough time to run to dealer with my earplugs to audition speakers :))) 
Does anyone really need to spend 10k on power
$10k conditioners are not always luxury items. they may be necessary, but not for home audio. 
Challenge: Best $2K-ish floorstander
Used Aerial 10T, if you have enough juice for them. 
How to meaningfully audition speakers??
for this you need good microphone or good acoustic transducer(or few), good recorder(or multi-track... teac 4-track r2r is one of the great examples), good player, good room and possibly good amplifier. in addition you'll need a musical instrument... 
Canjam Europe, anyone?
What is Canjam? Is smoking weed legal outthere? 
Tried a Bryston 4B with Maggies
what else did you try? how do you like your maggies? 
What would cause...
Wait. Think of upgrade too. I had older model, but I believe the new one also have motor EMI isolation issue. Overall, I was not impressed of its performance. 
Does anyone really need to spend 10k on power
Many things happen: Would you spend $10k on dress shirt? How about $7k LV purse for your woman? 
I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl
there's not too much room on p2 to lower the SRA. one can use washers between headshell and cartridge to make it taller. 
Newest iPhone
do did anyone figure how to get the line signal out of the newest iphone? it seems that even adapter + 30pin to line out audio headphone jack would not work... planning to swap to 4s soon back. 
I need help diagnosing a sibilant problem on vinyl
Doug, There's not too many adjustements you can make with Rega arm. Proper alignement, VTA and nothing more to adjust there. If gazilions of trial-errors made and still the damn sibliance, than it's time to inspect the cartridge. 
Is a high priced Line Conditioner needed
Jafant, the 'middle of grid' is absolutely irrelevant to the quality of power. The quality of delivered power depends on power lines only. The age of power lines, connectors, isolation, type having the most of impact. Some of the powerlines, depen... 
What is This Noise?
it mostly comming out of the cd itself and than through the cd-tray chassis. the best solution is to have humidifier in your dwelling. taking a bath or shower with bathroom door open, or simply cooking soup (or any activities with boling or vapori... 
Speaker's magnetic field and pacemaker
I don't thik that anyone with pacemaker would go as extream as leaning against woofer. 2' away is safe.consider placement of your rig at the safe distance from speakers or start playing music quiet and than adjust with volume control