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| New York City -- Martinis, Steaks, Lobsters, Audio Martinis-- Apple martini at the Four Seasons for the price of a meal in most citiesSteaks--Peter Lugars (Brooklyn) Sparks (Manhattan)Lobster--Sparks (excellent lobsters for a steak house)Audio Retailers--Lyric Hi Fi, Sound by Singer | |
| A "Unique" Voice... Roy Orbison, Johnny Mathis and Aaron Nevil come to mind. | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century I will exclude Opera and Broadway singers. My list would include singers and singer song writers:Sinatra,Crosby,Armstrong,Mathis,Sammy Davis Jr,Tony Bennett,Bobby Darin, Ray Charles,Bobby Short,Orbison,Elvis,John and Paul, Simon and Garfunkel, Jam... | |
| Speaker cable upgrade please help........ If you don't want to go crazy with spending thousands of dollars on speaker cables you might want to look at some of the lower cost Nordost cables. I use the gold (copper) superflats in a shotgun formation and they match my maggies very well. You ... | |
| Maggie 3.6 owners -- please help I own the 1.6 models and they have a larger sweetspot than the innersounds but both speakers are flat planar designs and therfore somewhat limited in their sweetspot in my opinion. You might want to listen to the Soundlab electrostats by Roger Wes... | |
| create a system for 2K My budget system of used components(also on other threads):Magnepan 1.6 speakers $750luxman R-117 receiver $285Sony CDP 75es 5 disc player $100-150McCormack DAC-1 Deluxe $285nordost superflatline cables 3M $50Belden 89259 interconnects 1M $15Sonic... | |
| What components are a good value in used market? Luxman R-117 receiverMcCormack DAC DeluxeThreshold/Forte | |
| Best Audio-Manufacturing Countries? 1)USA (Theshold,Krell,magnepan,soundlab,etc)2)Canada (Simaudio, Classe)3)Japan (Accuphase,Esoteric,Sony etc)4)Netherlands (Philips)5)Germany,France,UK,Switzerland,Italy6)Quickly on the rise; China,S.Korea | |
| Anyone pay 1st price, Even if it's fair ? Poll I paid the asking price for my speakers because it was very fair and I have no regrets. I have also made an offer lower than the asking price for a cable (without warranty) that was listed for just $7 cheaper than a new one but it sold anyway! Per... | |
| Speaker for Threshold amp and preamp I would look at magnapan 1.6 or 3.6 speakers or soundlab electrostats if you want to go the dipolar planar route. Otherwise you might want to take a look at Hyperion speakers (great reviews). I don't know what the future of innersound will be with... | |
| what isgood amp for maggies 1.6 ,,with a tube pre I use a luxman R-117 receiver and use the CD bypass to run my redbook CD player via a McCormack DAC-1 Deluxe to the receiver's amp section. If you use CDs as your primary music source, you should try this combination. It is inexpensive (receiver a... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Hill Plasmatonics. As soon as I heard them, I felt my temperature rising---and within an hour even the room temperature was rising!! These were the best winter speakers ever produced and probably the best tweeter ever made. I wonder how they would... | |
| Best Value System The sound of any system is room dependent, especially with planar speakers. This is my "budget" system for planar speakers:Magnepan 1.6 QR ($750 used)luxman R-117 receiver ($285 used)sony CDP 75es 5 disc CD player ($100-150 used)McCormack DAC delu... | |
| DAC Recommendations I bought a near mint McCormack DAC Deluxe for $285 on Ebay (the upgrade alone from the standard DAC to the Deluxe is $250!!) and use a Sonicwave 280 strand glass toslink ($23 from Buy.com) with my old 5 disc sony CDP 75es player. WOW!!!! I hear th... | |
| Amp help for the Maggies? If you want a very inexpensive solution get a used luxman R-117 receiver that drives the 1.6 QRs to concert levels and has a CD bypass switch to run the speakers directly from your CD player into the Amp. The Nakamichi stasis SR 3A receiver will a... |