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| matching speaker to room size? I use Vandersteen 2ce Signature IIs in a room almost exactly your size, probably even a little smaller because it's irregularly shaped--14x15 (for half its width)/18 (for the other half) x9. The Vandies go low, and with proper placement they work ... | |
| which is your favorite inexpensive stereo system? Lots of good recs here, and the NAD theme is a good one. Buying used on the Gon for $1000, a system that would be amazing for acoustic music and get the midrange right for everything: Spendor S3/5 ($500)NAD C325BEE ($275-300)Oppo 970/980 ($125)Cab... | |
| Thinking of moving to a Headphone system, thoughts I'm with Cruz123--headphones wear my ears out even after short periods of listening at low volumes. Last year I put together a great-sounding headphone rig (Antique Sound Lab MG DT OTL MK III, Sennheiser HD 600s/AKG K501s), trying to reach some of... | |
| Sony Playstation 1 for a CD player ??? Bad news in Playstation-land. Rhing, I appreciated the link you passed along above, but the process to tune the player was beyond my technical abilities. So I bought a second Playstation on eBay. And it turns out that not only would it not play bu... | |
| Inexpensive Cork Room Treatments So--I can't believe I missed the cork soaker thing. Thank you, Albertporter, for putting my mind back in the gutter where it belongs. Apart from that, the biggest problem I have now is not being able to fit my Vandersteens in my shower. | |
| Inexpensive Cork Room Treatments Albertporter: If the walls of your listening room are moist, consider the problem solved.Andrew | |
| Inexpensive Cork Room Treatments Amazon, where we got ours, sells the 24x18:http://www.amazon.com/Gaiam-All-Natural-Cork-Bath-Mat/sim/B000O1YSIU/2For the 36x24:http://www.gardeners.com/Cork-Bath-Mat/NewFortheHome_Cat,37-834,default,cp.htmlShould it happen to be a bonus for anyone... | |
| Wi-Fi Fidelity? Some interesting comments on wi-fi from Ayre's Charles Hansen in this Positive Feedback feature, in his answer to question 6:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue41/ca_hansen.htmStrange food for thought! | |
| Sony Playstation 1 for a CD player ??? Anybody having problems with the Playstation 1 playing burned discs? After the disc clamp broke I recently replaced my 5501 model with the original 1001 (and, yes, the original sounds worlds better--and the 5501 had been making me pretty happy, to... | |
| Any Young Audiophiles Out There? I'm 32 and bought my first system when I was 21, shortly after my friends and I dropped in on the one and only hi-fi store in our little college town. We happened to have some favorite CDs with us--I remember the first thing we cued up was SRV's I... | |
| NAD 502 stops playing I'd steer clear. I bought this unit new when it came out; the display stopped working after a month, then lasted a month again after it was repaired, and then after just two years it started skipping badly on unscratched CDs. Then I got rid of it.... | |
| Best integrated to drive vandersteen 2c's If you've liked your NAD, try the C372 integrated. When I used the 50 watt C325BEE with my Vandies, the bass was just as you describe. The C372 is a great value and a great match with the 2ces. It's 150 watts (which controls the bass beautifully) ... | |
| Help a Newbie. Considering Usher Be 718's The NAD 272 used with your HK receiver would be a good (and affordable) way to go, but why not just ditch the HK and go the integrated route if you're sticking with 2 channel? The preamp in the HK would likely end up being your weakest link. The N... | |
| Village Vanguard session with Bill Evans Thanks to onhwy61 for the Gopnik article. Just sat and read it with the album on in the background and got chills--which Gopnik's writing does for me not quite as often as Evans' playing, but often enough. To anyone else who enjoyed that article, ... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Easy test to see if Rain-X works: apply it per its instructions to a scratched CD that normally skips (apply it and polish radially). Then play. Because Rain-X is essentially a chemical polish, filling in microscopic divots in the plastic (or wind... |