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| A personal challenge Jeff and Tom, best wishes to you as you go down the very difficult road of giving up smoking. I watched my mother-in-law quit cold turkey about 12 years ago and was amazed by her will-power in overcoming the physiological and psychological addicti... | |
| Low-Fi Experience Well said Zaikesman. I'm kind of O/T, but some of the British mags - What Hi Fi? and Hi-Fi Choice come to mind - do a decent job of covering lo- and mid-fi offerings in both 2 channel and HT. They've conducted comparisons of several reasonably pri... | |
| I need a live great recording I really enjoy a lot of Keith Jarrett's work on ECM, and much of it was recorded live. Highlights include: Up For It (the most recent Trio disc), La Scala (solo), Köln Concert (solo), Whisper Not (Trio in Paris, 2-disc), The Cure (Trio, Town Hall,... | |
| Good sounding carrousel cd player?? I recently purchased a used Anthem CD-1 and had it upgraded/modded by Chris Johnson at Parts Connexion with: Audiocom Superclock II, Bybee purifier, new/better caps, Telefunken CCa tube and better RCA outputs. After about a month of listening, I c... | |
| How much does your system retail for? Let's see, about $11,000 retail. Actual cost more like $7,500, which is about 68% of retail. Wow, not bad. I'm glad I took the time to do this. Makes me feel much better, although it won't help convince my significant other. | |
| newbie seeking stereo system advice Hi Sean:In your price range, either used or new on sale, a couple of good bets are the NAD C541i and the Cambridge D500 SE, both of which have been very well rated in various audio mags (for what that's worth). Also, you could try to find a dealer... | |
| Mating Tube pre's with SS amps I've just made the move to a tubed pre and SS amp. In my case, both pieces are from the same manufacturer, Blue Circle (specifically the BC21.1 preamp and BC22 MKII amp), which helped avoid impedance mismatch. More than that though, although they ... | |
| What is the best Beatle Song I've always been partial to "Yesterday", although it may be more properly identified as a McCartney piece. Also on my list of favourite Beatles' tunes is "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"... 'cause its my name dammit and its the only Beatles tune my mom w... | |
| Where do you draw the line??? Why is it beyond belief or beyond a reasonable doubt that someone might find a less expensive piece of audio gear or system more to their liking (or even better sounding to them) than a more expensive one?For example, I've listened to different sp... | |
| Shipping Speakers, watch out I guess this is my lucky day: UPS delivered a Blue Circle BC22 and MR1200. The box for the BC22 had one slight indentation and the MR1200 box was fine. So far, no problems. Modded Anthem CD-1 to arrive next week by Canada Post/Xpresspost. Keeping ... | |
| Shipping Speakers, watch out WOW, direct response from the manufacturer. That should help restore some faith in humanity, or at least in the audio world (if not shipping companies).Over the past month, I have been having some fun upgrading my system and doing business with so... | |
| Seeking full range single driver speaker recs I've been thinking about the Zu Cable Rune speaker. It is essentially a single driver speaker, but has a tweeter for 12-15kHz and up. Very efficient load and reportedly goes down to 40Hz, ans potentially a little lower with proper placement. | |
| Y-Connector with XLR ends for Bi-Amping? You might also want to check out Zu Cable, they also have Y-cables for vertical and mono bi-amping available with RCA's or XLR's. The web page for the RCA's is http://www.zucable.com/YZ-rca/index.htmlHappy hunting. | |
| Open-Minded or Gullible? Viggen, analogue:anal/digital:finger has me ROTFLOLWTIME. | |
| CEC Transport Parts Connexion (http://www.partsconnexion.com) in Toronto, Canada, which is owned and operated by the founder of Sonic Frontiers, will perform repairs and mods on Sonic Frontiers, Anthem and Assemblage gear (all from the same corporate family). |