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| NYC area thrift shop vinyl In NYC there are a bunch. There's at least 2 on 1 block of St. Mark's in Manhattan. | |
| Your First System What's sad is most of you were using my equipment for your first system 20-30 years ago. I'm using a Marantz SR2000, a Sony PS-X20 turntable (absolutely worthless) and recently upgraded to a Sony DVP-9000ES. My speakers are Mission 80's or Boston ... | |
| Bang and Olufsen B&O is good at what it does. You get what you pay for and what you're paying for is looks and sound. Not everyone can have 300 pound wooden crates and giant racks of tubes chilling in the middle of their carpet. If you have to give considerati... | |
| sexiest sounding female vocalists? Rachel Yamagata... like if you mixed Norah Jones with Joss Stone and made it a little more sultry. | |
| Song intros that really grab you? ? To really throw something out there... The opening riff to Still D.R.E.Otherwise, the first bars to Schubert's impromptus Op. 90 No. 2 and Op. 142 No. 2. | |
| Speaker cable connectors? What exactly do they do? Thanks for the replies. Guess i shouldn't feel too low budget for using bare wires. If I do move up to connectors, I'm assuming I'll be able to tell which ones actually cover the ends. | |
| Speaker cable connectors? What exactly do they do? But how does adding connectors to the end of the cables keep the copper from oxidizing? | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used EX71SL's/Fontopias by Sony are exactly as Sonance said. However, they can be obtained for $30 on Amazon.com and come in a good Apple matching white. For the price, they offer a fair amount of isolation and bass and are pretty fashionable (not some... | |
| Vintage speaker upgrade suggestions? At home, we're running a Sony SACD player w/ a DA3ES driving the Bose 401's. At school, in the dorm room I'm running the Marantz/Mission combo and my source being an archaic JVC cd player and the headphone out of my Powerbook. Basically, I'm stuck... | |
| Vintage speaker upgrade suggestions? Thanks for the help. I'm going to check out the A70's soon. Also, thanks for the referral to Audiokarma, it seems to be a good place to lurk around.In defense of myself, the speakers and receiver had been checked out and repaired already at time o... |