elizabeth
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| Choose HT and Music Rooms If you wanted to make a nice room for the 2 channel adjust the upper room with a wall and a storage area.Make it the 'perfect' Golden ratio.(1.618034)20 ft wall and a 12 ft wall box (adjust to exact proportions...)Also upstairs would be better for... | |
| CD-format to be abandoned by major labels by the e This is the 'Chicken Little' sort of announcement.""The sky is falling! The sky is falling...""Tons of posts in many forums from ONE repeat ONE person's opinion in one spot.Gee if I knew how easy it is to create rumours i would have planted thousa... | |
| Why CD players will never be dead The comments like the above make me realize even more how i am still in a backwater.I do not have any stuff to do all the cool server things with.Right now i am pretty satisfied with my rig.Perhaps next year i will start looking into doing a music... | |
| Oracle SME 345 versus SME 309 Availability and demand.Used and rare vs in production.The price has little to do with how good each is in a comparison.It would only take a few word of mouth praise to boost the used one unaturally above it's real market value.Some stuff is expen... | |
| Room Treatments Well it depends:If you are married then WAF rules.. ASK YOUR WIFE..If you are not married BUT WOULD LIKE TO BE.. then Do NOT do any room treatments to your living spaces..If you are not married, and never plan on getting married Then lavish attent... | |
| Harmonix component Tuning Footers I use cheap stuff.I have pile of original TipToes tall and short.Teak Wood blocks from cut up cheese boards found at Goodwill. (big in the 80's pretty rare now)Size 10 butyl Rubber chemical bottle stoppers (I must have 80 of them..)I use the Tipto... | |
| Should cable elevators be used? Haha hah.. The consensus is there is no consensus.Two camps and a no man's land minefield between.I say IF you can hear a difference, then great, yes use cable elevators. If you can't, then you may use them, or skip them.I use common toilet paper ... | |
| At What Point is the Needle Damaging Records? You should repoace the Stylus.You could have the cartridge retipped. but it may cost more to do that than it is worth.Get a new cartridge. | |
| Micro Seiki Parts-Headshells in particular Have one manufactured yourself.I am certain you have some around. Get it copied. Start making them. Get it going yourself.I have zero interest in such a thing. But really if you want it and think it would be worth doing.. DO IT!Stop wishing and ju... | |
| Best Speaker under $3K - New or Used New 1.7 Magnepan.Used 3.6 MagnepanMagnepan are an aquired taste.Many folks love them. Some hate them.For thosw whom it is a love affair.. the 3.6 is the best bet used right now.Plenty of good ones out there...I own magnepan 3.6 i bought new two ye... | |
| Kimber KS-1130 or KS-1126 I use a 7 meter Hero balanced between my pre and amp.I could/would not afford those higher cost Kimber.I am happy with my Hero.It took a week to break in, and was horrible for the first hour or so... (almost took it back) | |
| How to choose a good fiber optic cable?? I bought a half dozen from uniqueproducts..The only issue is a high initial shipping fee. So just buying one makes it a little more expensive. So I bought a half dozen.They are good Optical cables. | |
| No such thing as a future proof DAC... I am perfectly happy with my Adcom GDA700 Dac which is getting kind of old. And in the DAC world is positively ancient.Works fine and I am completely happy with it.Buying the flavor of the day DAC with no real differece between them is a fools que... | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig Yes I have failed at #1 and #6I have purchased stuff failing the #1 rule.OFTEN. I just want to try it out anyway. Sometimes there are not even any reviews!! (the Audio research PH-2 was one such box I bought. I still have it and enjoy it.I watch f... | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig 0)Not having a clue what you really want from a rig.1)Basing purchases on reviews.2)Asking in forums which one is best for you.3)buying something because in theory it has to be the right one.(or type)========================4)Handing big money to ... |