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Jazz for aficionados
Cal Tjader Sextet with Stan Getz.It's all great, but I'm particularlly fond of "Ginza Samba".Everybody is at their peak and its very well recorded.The CD on Amazon sounds good.The Download at HDTracks sounds better.  
Who remembers audio from the time when ...
I vividly remember riding my bike to Seligman Bros. Record Store, which luckily, was only about a mile from our house. I mowed lawns and shoveled snow for the money for the bike and records. The LP I bought was Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson.It... 
Clean component connections
I used a couple different products back in the '70's -'90's for cleaning switches and enhancing noisy contacts, but for the last 20 years I have been quite happy with Corrosion-X. I've perked up a lot of stereo's and re-animated a lot of sunken RC... 
corner speakers
Thank you very much for your input.  This gives me much more to research.Best Regards,Bil 
corner speakers
viridian: You raise a good point. Image stability and coherence are tools that I used to try to evaluate and improve my system at home. I found that if I worked to tighten up the imaging, the frequency response and impact followed along naturally,... 
corner speakers
erik_squires: The last system I built used a Hsu sub, so I like their stuff. However their speakers all seem to have rear firing ports, which will be sub-optimal when actually shoved into a corner. I can remake the shelves so the speakers are an i... 
corner speakers
mrdecibel: I cannot argue with your description of the Khorns, but they are physically too large for my application.Thanks for the input.Bil 
corner speakers
Hi o-holter,There is a lot of nature to observe at the cabin, and I concur re: silence is golden sometimes. I also agree re: no sub at the cottage.Thanks for the input.Bil 
corner speakers
viridian: I have found corner loading useful for mechanical amplification of bass. However, whenever I have looked for the best speaker location for speakers that had good imaging capabilities, that location was always at least one foot from back ... 
corner speakers
Tomic601: those Heresy corner loaded units look sweet !Bil