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| Jimmy Page, It's time to call your lawyers? The Zeppelin influences are obvious. Led Zeppelin were influenced by other artists, and they influenced many other artists, some who were probably more blatant in their attempts to try to sound "Zeppelinish". Whitesnake and Kingdom Come are a co... | |
| Used Market Savings vs. The Dealer Experience I do both. I buy used gear from other enthusiasts, usually at about 50% of the new price. Overall my experience doing that has been good, but there have been a couple of incidents where I got ripped off or something wasn't as advertised. I usua... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville. 25 years already, doesn't seem like it. | |
| Looking for an Integrated Amplifier to match Totem Rainmaker Speakers @bomd Give them a call and ask. I have had them ship things to me before, so I know they'll do it. They have a pretty liberal return policy also, I want to say 90 days, but I'm not sure. | |
| Looking for an Integrated Amplifier to match Totem Rainmaker Speakers @bomd I was at Gig Harbor Audio here in Washington and they had an Elixir set up in a demo system. I just stopped in and wasn't planning to buy anything, but after hearing the Elixir I snapped one up to replace my Peachtree Nova 300. It's very d... | |
| Beware of SACD Transports -- they probably will not work with your favorite DAC Big Greg.If the OP has JUST a transport then that has NO DAC.Which I feel is the crux of his question. @uberwaltz good point. The original post was a little hard to read, but after re-reading it, I understand the point being made with transport ... | |
| Looking for an Integrated Amplifier to match Totem Rainmaker Speakers If you're looking at the Rega, you should also take a look at the Heed Elixir. It includes a MM phono stage.As a counterpoint to the suggestion that you need at least 100 watts, the Heed Elixir has 50 watts at 8ohms and can drive my 87db Canton V... | |
| Antennas for FM Tuners in Urban Setting I have the Magnum Dynalab ST-2, not an ST3 as I said in my earlier post. Too late to go back and edit it. | |
| Beware of SACD Transports -- they probably will not work with your favorite DAC I've done a bit of research on this and everything I've read indicates that you can't output SACD via optical (toslink or coax) but can via HDMI, so you'd need something like an Oppo with an HDMI output and a DAC with an HDMI input (not many out t... | |
| Antennas for FM Tuners in Urban Setting The best antenna is going to be a roof mounted antenna on a mast. Unfortunately there aren't many being made. I recently purchased the ST3 antenna for my bedroom system and was not that impressed. For an indoor antenna, I found that the less ex... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A really nice second hand copy of Chicago VII. I really like the jazzy instrumentals on the first disc and there are some nice hits on the second record. | |
| why a high end phono preamp? I'm sure someone more technical can explain this better but a phono preamp is taking a very small signal and magnifying it many times and also applying a riaa equalization to the signal. No small feat and how well it is done is definitely going to... | |
| Is there a quality website that lists upcoming releases of music I generally get information about new releases on Tidal and Spotify, but if you're not using one of those services, check out allmusic.com | |
| Subwoofer info Cant comment on rythmik as I have never heard one b4 but their service is not as good as others. So you've never heard one, but you know their service is not as good as others? Might I ask what you're basing that on?I own three Rythmik subs and... | |
| Subwoofer info Pete, For what it's worth, I bought my SVS subs used in August 2014 and they are still going strong. There's a reason SVS offers a 5 year warranty on their products.Greg |