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| What about the ultimate home theater???? I have not heard any home theater setups beyond the 2 channel setups an audiophile friend and I have and the 5.1 setups I built for my mother and brother. Bor have I listened to any HT demos at dealers. I tend to avoid those demonstrations and foc... | |
| Maggies or Martin Logans? Maggies, especially the full ribbon models (not quasi-ribbon). I'd take a 3.6/R over any ML speaker any day fo teh week. YMMV. | |
| high end audio insurance? Try Antiques Road Show? LOL, just kidding. I'm not qualified to answer Slartibartfast's above post. But it would seem that there are appraisers out there who specialize in priceless prices. E.g., paintings, letters, manuscripts, rare books, etc. W... | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? Gorefest "Eindhoven Insanity" link. This has to be one fo the best live death metal performances I've ever heard on a CD. The sound on this CD is phemoninal, esp. since most live death metal CDs are terrible. And the actual performance was pretty ... | |
| anybody know a true dual mono passive preamp? EVS Ultimate Attenuators? Only available used as they are no longer in production. Stepped resistors instead of pots. | |
| What percent of your system cost is for cables? 18%ICs;23%PC+PLC;59%gearThose are based on the used prices that I paid for my rig.I paid $2930 used for my current setup. Actual real list price would have been $8010, based on what dealers charged for this stuff when new. Most of the gear and wir... | |
| What is the minmimum room size for Magnepan? I doubt you'd blow them up with good, clean, ample power reserves. I listened to the 3.6/R's at a dealer, and they'd push out SPLs if you wanted to. Granted heavy metal didn't have the *SLAM* factor (so don't expect them to slap you in the face wi... | |
| Are you spending your time at the computer instead My TV time has suffered due to my internet "surfing." I'd be surprised if I watched 10hours of TV/week. Usually it's under 5 hours/week, if that. I've listened to more radio in the car by each Wednesday than that! The rest is either spent with com... | |
| My highest praise - for Audiogon I guess I'm one of those "snipers" that many of you seem to hate. I actually prefer sniping, to me it's the gentleman's way to bidding. It reduces the slow overtime "slug fest" in my opinion. Everyone gets a fair shot to place in one punch (or may... | |
| Budget DVD-A with good sound? Denon DVD-1600 ?? But at $500 +/- from an authorized dealer, it's a little out of your price range. This particular Denon, as I've been led to believe, is basically the video section of the (great) Panasonic RP56 (Sage/Faroujda FI2200 chipset), wh... | |
| What happened to Jonathan Scull? Monster Cable and a link... I think J-10's exact words were, "Regarding my future, heh heh, let's say... it's Monsterous!"The thread in question from the Asylum is this one (#201874)Aroc | |
| Reaching the end of a music collection I'd try to find a music "dealer". Much like we rely on dealers to expose us to new equipment, I'm always looking for the equilvalent "music dealer." In college it was easy to expand your collection. Most of my friends or friends of friends exposed... | |
| homeade equipment racks?? opinions? I built my own rack (TNT Flexy clone). It's nice an rigid and keeps my gear off of te floor. -That's about all I can say about it. It doesn't help the sonics on bit. | |
| digital coax to balanced aes/ebu converter? The Monarchy DIP or one of the audio alchemy "digital transmission interface" boxes will probably do what you are asking. I believe the AA units (dti-pro, dti-pro32?) will set the scms flag to copies=infinite. I think this was an issue with DAT dr... | |
| I turn the big Half-Century today Grin.Still about half way there. Best of wishes! The best is still to come. |