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Upgrade from Silverline 11
I would be very careful in moving to floorstanding speakers for a 10x15 room. My room is 13x15 and I've gone through four different floorstanders and three different monitors. All of the monitors were a better fit.The danger is overloading the roo... 
Listening room design
An inexpensive reference is the "Get Better Sound" book by a Stereophile writer who's name escapes me right now. He spent his career doing room setups and his advice is excellent. Good luck 
High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more
Another votefor Audio Note 
What is your favorite guitar solo of all time?
Hard to pick one, but this morning I enjoyed Zappa's Muffin Man solo quite a bit. I always thought that if I played guitar it would be like Zappa :) 
Alex Chilton RIP
"Children by the millions scream for Alex Chilton and he come's running" -- he was very worthy of having his own songRIP 
Good speaker stands for Silverline Minuets
Skylan stands. Custom sized, mass fillable and inexpensive. I've used them for three different speakers to great success 
Need help picking speakers for small room
Check out North Creek speakers at northcreekmusic.com They are reasonably priced and designed for small rooms and close to front wall placement. 
About speaker cables..
In the "Get Better Sound" book which I've just read the highly regarded author (can't recall his name) makes the point that it is much more important to locate your rack on a side wall. The negative effect of putting your rack in between your spea... 
Suggestions for organizing albums
Thanks for all of your ideas. A $1.280 hit on a key point for me -- is there a scientific way to stumble into a fresh discovery:)?I have about 600 albums and I seem to always go to the eye level shelf to start, which ignores most of them. I think ... 
Speakers that like corners
Thanks everyone! Please keep additional suggestions coming. I'll look into the ones above. 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Axel,I don't know what to tell you -- when I go to the Forum page and look at the members area section, there are two listings. The first is Articles and the second is Reviews. Reviews has 7 pages of listings. 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Axel,From the home page go to the Forum (link at the top); page down to the "members area" section; and click onto "reviews." I spent some more time going thru all of them last night and there are some real interesting reviews covering the last 20... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
In researching cartridges on the Vinyl Engine, I came across a couple of old references that may be of interest to all. There is a large "Cartridge Comparison Chart" listing near 100 cartridges with grades and technical info. The Ortofon M20fl Sup... 
Referrence 3A's a good match with Lavardin?
Thanks everyone for your input, I appreciate it. I'm leaning towards the Veena in the Reference 3A line, mainly for aesthetic (WAF) reasons. The room will look a lot better with furniture-like speakers (i.e. floorstanders) vs. bookshelf speakers a... 
Connections on Supex Cartridges
Thank you Raul! You are always a great help and I appreciate it.