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| What are the loopholes of sending COD to nonmemb. Under some circumstances payment can be stopped on a bank "certified check" or a money order. I know from personal experience. It was a hassle but I was able to stop payment and return the damaged goods to the seller. If I had been a thief instead... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Natnic: thank you for the words of agreement.Your suggestion of handling the "helpful dealer" problem is a great one. Everyone's time is of value. If a guy is going to serve as our audio consultant we should let him know that and compensate him fo... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Nantic: you are kidding yourself.You say in your most recent post here, "All one needs is a sound meter to insure the Levels are same." (sic) Do you mean to imply that you had one in your possession and used it in the course of the "test" that you... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Atagi: you are doing the right thing by doing a lot of listening to a variety of gear in a variety of venues.A few suggestions. Reduce as many variables as you can. For example, select a few "test" selections from CDs that you are familiar with an... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Nantic: Sorry you feel that way about it. I think you are totally ignoring (among other things) the possibility of psychological influences in an environment not under your control. Believe it or don't: your expectations of how something will soun... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Natnic:Who can disagree with "garbage in garbage out?" Not I. I suggest that a competent "modern" digital front end will not reveal its more modest price point, consistently or reliably in a double blind test.At the bottom of this post I have copi... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Rnm you write that I am right (that speakers are the the most "distinguishably different" and, therefore the most important component in a system) but only if the differences in speakers bring one the greatest listening pleasure. (see posts above)... | |
| How international is your system? It is fascinating that we all seem to have one or another bias. My bias is not not a "conscious" factor in selection of gear but appears to lean heavily towards (North) American and English speaking with counterpoint from Germany and Japan. If we ... | |
| newbie 1st post 2 channel reccomendations. Keith:Natnic and RNM have given you good advice.They just happen to be dead wrong.Find speakers that you love. Your auditions of the ProAc and the Thiel speakers should be helpful as well as instructive. ProAc and Thiel both make well regarded spe... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Hello again all:This is really kind of pitiful. What kind of poor excuses for opinionated machismo are we, when the best we can do is to pretty much agree with each other?I think I'll go slip my Veritas into a groove. And groove.Thanks to all of y... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Twl,I do not disagree with any part of your comment. We may disagree as to whether or not multi-thousand dollar digital source components produce a signal that is appreciably different (either objectively or subjectively---in a controlled test env... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Nrchy,You wrote earlier today: "What are the speakers going to add to the music that was not retrieved from the source or translated to the speakers? I just don't get it."Are you playing Devil's Advocate and trying to stir the pot, or do you REALL... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Yes, David, you are right. The speaker cannot "improve" the signal presented to it. As I understand it, what Karls, Unsound and others have said (more ably than I) is that the speaker is the component that is least linear and most apt to impart it... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Common Audio Sense -- (Apparently) A Minority PerspectiveTo say that the transducer is the most important part of a system is understatement. I would wager that most of us would have little problem in identifying speaker "A" over speaker "B" from ... | |
| Manners, Eticks & Audiogon --- What do you think??? Fatparrot: It is clear that you are a man of principle, honest and diligent and ethical. Your approach to things is a little different than mine. Here is mine: eMail is free.It does not "cost" anything if you are running an auction to educate some... |