cornfedboy
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| Tax time what is a tax refund? how might i apply for one? all these years i'd thought that Âtwas better to keep it and owe than allow the irs to hold my money for a year without paying me any interest. am I wrong here?as for the spousal/significant other ... | |
| Is my Salesman telling the Truth? CORRECTED POST3chihuahuas: if you believed "your sales guy" was spoutin' bull dung, why didn't you tell him? i find it fascinating that so few consumers - of damn near anything - are willing to confront uppity salespersons, even politely and diplo... | |
| Is my Salesman telling the Truth? 3chihuahuas: if you believed "your sales guy" was spoutin' bull dung, why didn't you tell him? i find it fascinating that so few consumers - of damn near anything - are unwilling to confront uppity salespersons, even politely and diplomatically. m... | |
| Fly in the SACD Ointment? i've already replicated in redbook cd format most of my favorite lp's. for the nonce, i've no plans to do the same with sacd, should the choice ever become real. i waited almost 3 years after the introduction of the cd format to buy my first playe... | |
| Hello? ? ? ? Is Anybody Home ?? ? cw: i put your question to my older son, who has the same notebook as yours (he is, BTW, a second generation audiophile, as well). his first concern with your proposed setup is power consumption. unless your notebook is running on an ac adapter, y... | |
| How much does your system retail for? i was too embarrased to post when i first saw this thread. i'm now happy to report that my audio-only system is quite modest, coming in at only 45.51% of albertporter's.- kelly | |
| Virtual system revisited uhmm, jd, there is a separate virtual sytems section on this site to which many have already contributed. _kelly | |
| What causes listener fatique? cure? i've found that almost anything in a system can cause listener fatigue. in my current setup, it took a tradeout of speaker cables to remove the last vestige of harshness that kept me from hours' long listening pleasure. .....kelly | |
| Cryogenic Tempering albertporter: when cryogenically treating a phono cartridge do you remove the body? does it make a difference of what the body is made? what was the sonic effect on the cartridge? TIA. -kelly | |
| BEST brand for Classical Recordings? while not offering much "mainstream" music, lyrita recorded some of the most spectacular classical lp's ever. i find harmonia mundi and bis to offer consistently excellent classical cd's, also on the more obscure side. _kelly | |
| California Brownouts and equipment rosstaman: you might want to review the thread titled "California electrical shortage audio," that began on 02/15/01. It should answer at least some of your questions. -kelly | |
| Some cable advice for this system delancey, i don't have great familiarity with your system but these are the 4 ic's/cables, in order, that i've found work best on mine: fim-gold, fim-silver, tara-the one, nordost-quatro fil. -kelly | |
| Audiophile spending i think question 2 (what's the retail value ratio of your software collection vs. your equipment?) is far more important than question 1 ( at what ratio do you spend -monthly, yearly, etc.- for software vs. hardware). the former measures a lifetim... | |
| Psychological audio, proceed slowly jd: if this thread were an audition tape for your standup routine, i'd suggest you keep your day job. like a number of others, i'm dissappointed, too. but i'm willing to write off this feeble attempt at humor as an abberation and expect you'll con... | |
| music you cant live without i have too many favorites to list, so i'll include a few compilations that i turn to often:(1) etown, live-vols.1&2(2) live from mountain stage-vols 1-8(3) dead man walking- music inspired by the motion picture(4) badlands-covers of bruce's ne... |