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| Where do you sit? Leather reclining chair in the sweet spot. It's probably not the optimal chair for sound reproduction, but it does just fine, thank you.FYI - Bachelor with semi-dedicated sound room. | |
| The ultimate system? Cost no object Albert's going to need pig gut stretched into a sheet, a la the orginal ESL speakers. Sure it will smell after a few days, but THE SOUND! :-) | |
| BMG Music Club - new twist All the CDs I received from BMG in the past to be of "good" quality. I was unaware they may be marketing otherwise substandard CD pressing via their direct marketing. Though they seem to be just fine on my sub $5k system. Most seem be to be identi... | |
| BMG Music Club - new twist What the original posted "Eric" discovered is really old hat. I used to collect the BMG catalogs back in high school (almost decade ago). The trick was to collect as many as I could, so I could get all the catalog number for thousands of CDs. With... | |
| The ultimate system? Cost no object I think my head would explode if I'd try to imagine the BEST system I could build for my needs, LOL! kah-booOOOM! :-/ Though I'd imagine I would start with some sort of Genesis speaker, then find the perfect amp (or amps) to drive them. Would prob... | |
| Philips tells industry: "Don't Mess with the CD " We're just fortunate that philips HAPPENS to be on our side in this matter. It's just a coincidence that their interests appear to somewhat coinside with our own (playback restricted CDs = suck). Though things could change in the future...Also, FY... | |
| February Stereophile It really bugs me that so much of what on commercial broadcast TV is so compressed, dynamically. What little TV I do watch is often PBS. Then when I switch to another station I often get blasted back in my chair, a la a 1980's Maxell commercial (o... | |
| Correct turn on, turn off sequence???? Paraphrased from page 3-4 of the Audio Alchemy Digital Line Controller (DLC) Preamplifier manual.(paraphrased)1. Do no plug the preamp PSU into AC mains, yet. Powered OFF.2. Connect DC input from preamp to PSU. This grounds the preamp and you may ... | |
| Does Your Computer Sound Like a Jet Engine????? I was a hard core Linux user, but since administering Windows NT and 2000 Server pays the bills, I run the OSes as much as I can. My main home rig (Athlon w/ cheetah) is running Windows 2000 Professional with Office 2000 SBE. Currently Windows 200... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers I can echo the rec from Ozfly. Unless you can hear speakers from a friend's house, you almost have to buy the suckers at MSRP from a hi-end store. Personally, I would take my "sweet 'ole" time and audition everything he has, then ask him to get so... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers I initially spent 70% of my budget on speakers, and spent the balance on a receiver and cd player. I basically threw my money away on the electronics. And because my amplification and source weren't up to par, I never realized the full potential o... | |
| DVD-A and SACD player combo I doubt you will find a 2-channel "audio only" DVD-A and SACD player in the near future. The push for this type of "universal player" seems to be one that will play ALL discs, including DVD-A, DVD-V, CD, SACD, etc (maybe mp3, VCD, HDCD, etc). So y... | |
| Does Your Computer Sound Like a Jet Engine????? Answer for Driver... 41C-47C under varying load and ambient temps.I have a AYHJA AMD Thunderbird 1333/266 with Arctic Silver II thermal paste and thermal millennium "Glaciator I" HSF on an EPoX EP-8K7A (non-RAID) motherboard. I don't know how accu... | |
| Does Your Computer Sound Like a Jet Engine????? Why, yes, my home PC does sound like a jet engine. :-) 4x80mm Panaflos (filtered) on the intake and across the SCSI hard disk bays. Enermax PSU with whisper fans. One Thermal Millennium Glaciator HSF (1.5 copper) (not too loud) for the CPU. Combin... | |
| Audible differences between speaker cables? IMHO, speaker wire is less likey to change character between brands and makes than equivalent line level interconnects. In my system(s) (past and present) I *could* hear differences between some interconnects using *similar* construction. Once you... |