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| Home HiFi better than Live? My initial response to this was that if you think your home rig sounds better than a live concert, then you need to go to better concerts. I'd take Carnegie Hall over my living room any day.But since we all listen to a lot more recorded music than... | |
| Clarification of biwire, biwire shotgun, etc..... I seem to recall we've been around this merry-go-round before, and I' not sure what if any conclusions were arrived at, so I'm not going to weigh in with definitions.But using YOUR definitions, you are wrong about the comparison between single-wir... | |
| Cable connections to an old receiver? Assuming there's good contact between the entire cable and the terminal (which presumably there is if the cable ends are soldered), you should be ok, soundwise. From your description, it doesn't sound like they are actually coming loose. But it wo... | |
| Where can I get educated about cables? If you want to lowdown on something, the people trying to sell it to you are not always the most impartial source of information. I'd recommend a book by Bruce Rozenblit called "Audio Reality." Rozenblit designs tube amps, and he's not in the wire... | |
| How would audio program about stereo on Radio do I suspect the market would be too small. Everybody cares about health and money, so it's reasonable to expect that a fraction of them would tune in to a program on those subjects. But not many people really care about audio, so you're talking abou... | |
| Speaker Suggestion for teenage pre-stereophile If towers are acceptable, look at the PSB Image 4T. It's highly regarded, and has a deep but slender footprint, so it might work in your space. Lists for $650/pr, but should be available for $600. | |
| song title that is memorable Two from "Forever Changes" by Love (I'm quoting from memory here):"Alone Again Or""The Good Humor Man, He Sees Everything Like This" | |
| Open door at first reflection area of right spkr Could be. What happens to the image when you play a mono recording? And have you tried fiddling with the balance control? That's what it's there for. (Granted, it's not a perfect tool, but the perfect tool is a perfect room.) | |
| Yamaha RXV-630 Good enough? Some people may disparage Yamaha, but they've always built solid, dependable gear, and your receiver should drive the 602s without difficulty. (I'm assuming you aren't trying to fill an arena with rock concert-level sound.) The soundstage will be ... | |
| What makes certain cd players better than others? Krazeeyk: You've asked a very difficult question, actually. Despite a plethora of "theories," attempts to corrolate sonic differences to technical attributes are pretty much purely speculative. | |
| CD Player newbie questions In some circles (not this one) you will get a good deal of debate about whether ANYTHING matters much in CD players. Certainly the specs you mention are irrelevant (because virtually every player on the market measures so well that the distinction... | |
| Classical CD-guide in print or on web? On the web, www.classicaldigest.com summarizes multiple magazine reviews. For printed matter, search Amazon for the authors Ted Libbey and Jim Svejda. Be warned, if you buy both their books, you will discover that they almost never agree. There is... | |
| How can I get back into vinyl very cheaply? Psychicanimal, I wasn't referring to your own rig, (which is a $450 direct drive unit, not counting the steroids), but to your suggestion about Technics' $170 belt drive., which you said would "outperform the other 'glass and particle board' entry... | |
| How can I get back into vinyl very cheaply? Rgcards: I was in your position a few years ago, and picked up a new NAD (which is basically a low-grade version of the Rega P2), because that's what my local dealer had. It needed an adjustment, so I'm glad I had the dealer to take care of that (... | |
| Is 2 channel dead? What do you THINK you're going to do with all those CDs? You're going to listen to them. And they're two-channel. As long as you listen to them, two-channel will live.You also seem to be worried that in a couple of years, the only things you'll be... |