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| What's the size of your listening room and/or ht? Right now my gear is squozed into a 14x14 room with 7' ceilings, but this is temporary as we've just moved in. The house is ~150 years old and obviously wasn't designed with audio or theatre in mind! I'm building an addition, but the biggest I cou... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 1- 77 Triumph TR6 and 02 BMW M3 convertible.2- I might trade the TR6 for a '60 Austin Healy 3000.3- I honestly don't have much of a motivation to spend a lot more than I already have. | |
| Technically, what causes "laid-back" or "up-front" I don't think placement had anything significant to do with the difference between these Avantgardes and the Avalons that were almost in the same spot. I really feel that there is something about the speakers that causes this.I have often wondered... | |
| How much does your system retail for? Yikes! I'm glad I'm happy with my kit. I can't afford what most of you folks spend on this! I'm somewhat under median - something on the order of $16K for 2-channel, another $18K for HT and around $12K into the room. (That room figure is pretty bl... | |
| How often do you upgrade your other passions? Hmm... for me it's audio, cars and computers. The computers get upgraded a lot - those upgrades are, by comparison to high end audio, almost free! The cars are a different problem, as upgrades there generally cost more than what I've been spending... | |
| What's your profession? Age? I'm a 42yo distinguished engineer at one of the big three-letter computer companies. | |
| Magnepan..the sun rises and sets on..or does it?? Maggies are GREAT and some things and not so good at others. If your taste is in jazz or especially intimate acoustic music, they're wonderful. We listen to a lot of European and old American folk music that often ends up with a guitar or a duclim... | |
| Can you work hard while listening to music? Yeah, for me it has to be wallpaper. If it involves me almost at all, it's distracting me too far from what I'm doing. And these days, I have so many meetings and conference calls that I can't even have it on at all, even though I work mostly from... | |
| How to find vinyl? I happen to live in the boonies of central Virginia (sort of near Charlottesville), but I was really asking about generalities - do I look in the phone book under "antique"? Or is there some other strategy. I ask the question this way because I tr... | |
| Help on Proac Tablette I have a pair of Tablettes and they integrate very nicely with the Response CC1, despite the fact that the CC1 is actually from a different part of the ProAc line. | |
| Maggies or Martin Logans? I just went through this process myself. I think the Magnepan 3.6s are probalby more truthful, but they are also brutual on poorly-recorded material. I compared with the Ascent and Odyssey, and if I were *only* doing 2-channel, I think I might hav... |