cornfedboy
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| What s Your Frame of Reference? as several others have already mentioned, you ought to play a wide array of recordings to judge how a component changes (or doesn't change) the sound of your system. i think it's most helpful to have in your "test bin" several recordings you've he... | |
| Best Used Vinyl Shops in Las Vegas, Nev albert: you're more perceptive than i. i've eaten at the shalimar more than once but never saw the used lp store you discovered. if you're in the area of the sahara, which used to be the highend audio venue for ces, look for the holy cow brew pub-... | |
| Speakers? what is the sound of one hand clapping? | |
| Speaker Grill Cloth, On or Off my avalon eidolons have grill covers meant to be left on; they have a layer of felt, about 1/2 thick, under the cloth, which serves as a part of the speaker's design. when i had my avalon ascents, there was an "option" available for a time that ha... | |
| One Song That Still Causes... "me and bobby mcgee," sung by janis joplin. | |
| Balanced Input A/B Switch ljgj: you don't say whether the single pair of xlr inputs on your pre are analogue or digital. i assume they are analogue, since there aren't a whole lot of pre's with digital in/out. (if the input is digital, it should be used, of course, only fo... | |
| Music to make you laugh by "not for kids only," with jerry garcia and david grisman, makes me at least smile every time. another humorous cd from roughly the same genre is by christine lavin, "getting in touch with my inner bitch." -kelly | |
| Help needed to set up an analog system psychicanimal: it's obvious to anyone who's got his/her eyes even half open that you're a whore. are you brave enough to reveal your pimp? | |
| Will re-terminating if done correctly, it should make no difference whatsoever. -kelly | |
| How does TARA Stack Up? funny you should ask. i've been auditioning speaker cables between my rowland 8ti and avalon eidolons for the past 2 months. i started with cardas neutral reference and moved to fim silver. with this first change, there was a hugh jump in clarity,... | |
| Recordings to die for - R R only if you can find 'em on the right vinyl, these are demo-quality:various artists, Bis ans Ende der Welt (until the end of the world) ST- german vinyleagles, live- japanese vinylpink floyd, the final cut- japanese vinyldire straits, making movies- ca... | |
| I opened both MIT and Transparent netwks anybody else seen "american psycho"? cables are kids' stuff. i use a chain saw on amps. so far, have interesting bits and pieces of burmesters, mlb's and halcro's. haven't learned anything, but it sure was fun. -kelly | |
| Any High-End Audio Show near to.....?? meta: answer to 2nd question: yes, tho you'll also see lotsa stuff not available in usa. i'll get the schedule for 2001-2002 and privately email it to you. -kelly | |
| Listening Room Upgrade i agree with abstract7. you might better spend your money by placing more cross-bracing underneath your new floors, replicating 10-12" o.c. if you do install wall-to-wall carpeting, i'd suggest you cover the area between your speakers (outside edg... | |
| Thiel cs3.6 keep blow up mid/tweter driv drtmth58 is quite correct in his admirable post. amp clipping is, indeed, the most common cause of speaker failure. it takes high ouput and high current to drive difficult loads to high spl's. my advice: change your amp before replacing another dr... |