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Speaker Dimple
Appreciate the responds. Guess I'll try to vacuum method this weekend. 
Is music quality moving away from the "audiophile"
Here's a link to an excellent site, and organization "Turn It Up" that talks about what many recording artist and record producers are trying to do to improve the dynamics on recordings and get away from the wholesale "compression" of recordings.h... 
Is music quality moving away from the "audiophile"
Are most artists and producers moving away from "audiophile" type of recording? I would say for the most part, yes. The days are long gone by when people had a dedicated two-channel system and while maybe they couldn't afford SOTA equipment, certa... 
Starting over
One way to start over for less than $1000 is to go with the Fatman - iTube - Stereo Integrated Amp w/iPod dock. You get a tube hybrid integrated amp with 13 watts per channel and an iPod dock. Audio Advisor has these on sale for $400 w/o speakers,... 
College student stuck w/ bad speakers: advise pls
The Energy RC-10 are great speakers, but I don't know if their soundstaging and imaging would be all that much better than your Paradigm. You might want to check out some Ascend CBM-170s. Soundstage has a good review on them. 
Wall St. Journal article
Perhaps if more artists and record producers, engineers, ect were involved with the "Turn It Up" organization then perhaps the industry could come up with some standards that would allow recordings to have more more dynamic range to them. I also w... 
Wall St. Journal article
Well not all artist, and their producers go that route. I know Johnny Sandlin when he was having Bonnie Bramletts "Beautiful" CD mastered fought to make sure that CD was mastered well, and mot let the mastering engineers compress the hell out of i... 
Music for Riding a Storm Out?
Les Brers in A Minor - The Allman Brothers Band 
can forum readers help with advice on speakers ?
Smokeylynx,Just curious on your term "fuzzy at times". I wonder if part of that "fuzzy" might be your oak speaker stands resonating? Do your M80s sit directly on the stands, or do you have something (rubber pad, blue-tac, ect) between the top of s... 
Advice on best small speaker for under $400 used
You might want to add the Energy RC-10 and NHT Classic 3 to your list. 
A good trade?
What you two ought to do is trade speakers for 30 days, if either one of you don't like the speakers they got in trade, then both of you should agreed to go back to your orginal speakers without any hard feelings. It's fun to trade gear with frien... 
Boston Acoustics T-1030 Foam
Hoopofficial,Replacing foam surronds isn't that difficult a thing to do, and there are many companies that sell kits to do so, and if you can follow some simple instructions, and take your time, you'll do alright. I myself use a company called Sim... 
The space between the speakers
Stringreen,I would think it would be more the soundstaging than imaging that would be compromised. I myself have a similar size cabinet between my two speakers and have pulled my speakers out to where the fronts are approximately 12" in front of t... 
Babies and Speakers
Well Dad, You do have to aware of the "little one" ears, so playing your floorstanders at Metallica levels in your living room is probably going to be a "no no" for awhile, and over doing the bass can be upsetting for an infant trying to sleep. Bu... 
want to build a 2 channel system where do i start
With the amount of money you want to spend ($20,000) you should be able to built quite a nice system. If it was me with that much money and wanting to know where to start, I find a good, well-established, hi-end dealer with a good reputation for s...