avguygeorge
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| Auto-calibration My latest receicer comes with a cal. mic.--I never opened it up. Only because I liked the default setting. I just bumped up the center a taste.--I think this calebration is like salting ones food at a rest; before you taste it. | |
| Sterophile review $500 Tubed CD I went thru the rec. issue and see only the Music Hall cd25. It was ST whom raved re.its performance/price.--$599 Class B. VOL.29 4 | |
| Why I sell I may be from another planet but I sell the old; after I have bought something better.--Altho one time I had to sell a piece because my seeing eye dog nedded lasic/ on both eyes. | |
| Are interconnect cables worth $15,000? Ok, Rcc you get "meanie of the month" award. Messin' w/ somebody's system is ; well pretty bad; esp. to prove that kind of point.--'Yer' bad. BTW, I got SR cables and the Quattro box. A week or so back I switched out some power cords--ones I owned... | |
| Does anyone have Magnum XM tuners? Yes, I sure will. My dac is the AA Prestige se. It does a fine job with the cable box music stations. I know many members poo poo this and that's ok. I doubt I'll ever run it from rcas out---I'm just hoping it sounds as good as the cable box.-and ... | |
| Does anyone have Magnum XM tuners? After your suggestion I have ordered the XRT12---Should be here next week. Anybody know is the 995 per/mo. still available? On the Crutchfield site; it doesn't seem to be there.-- | |
| Are interconnect cables worth $15,000? Oh, did you say free ship??!! Outta my way pilgrim; Kan't wait to spend 17k a meter !!! In my vernacuar most systems would benifit more; if that kind of dough were to be spent on a better source/pre/ amp/or speakers-- unless you already have a 150... | |
| Does anyone have Magnum XM tuners? Hey thanks,Whatjd. I was with Directv a while back and they had changed from Music Choice. They gave us about 50 XM stations. Using the coax out of my Sony box the sound was good enough for me. Now I am with Time Warner Cable.(They use MC) Their c... | |
| Starting from scratch, passion for "steals" Well you may have sold this stuff but you may not know THX was the first usefull set of specs the industry had, for the consumer. This applies to THX ultra2, of today; as well. Before this we had the wildest set of MFG. claims,as our guide.Sure th... | |
| On evaluating speakers? I have always had a problem with demos at 'the dealers'. Many many speakers at 'the dealers' have far to few hrs. on them.---Case in point, my new Sophia 2's required at least 6 month's at near 24/7---not they sounded like they needed all this tim... | |
| OK, I'm dumb. Does it ever end? Hey Rob,welcome to the show. No you're not dumb,just an enthusiast. The desire for more/better is never ending. | |
| How important is HDMI? My HD-dvd player forces the rez, down to 720--not 480 but the PQ suffers @720.--as compared to 1080p via hdmi._Now when we're talking "for the audio" HDMI do rule. You just can't pass Dolby-True nor DTS-ma any other way. IF you have BD get a hdmi ... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2: grills on or off ? Since I don't have a mind of my own I do what "Mikey" does; I listen to my Soph2's w/grills off. | |
| Conditioner for Cary MB500 Monoblocks Sirspeedy; I know we're both having fun but you can't throw the first stone and then tell a confronting poster to lighten up--- That job goes to a different poster.---That is how it works,get it?? | |
| Re-biasing a CJ Premier 8 When I had my 8's, I used a CAT-3--(10 tubes in that). Just before tuning my estate to my local DWP--- or my tube supplier---I sold the big-8's.--Now use CJ's 350 ss amp and may not have to go under. (I listened way more than some !!)---Which made... |