cwlondon
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| Multi Media to Go, Please. As an update to this thread for airplane flights, I can report that I did upgrade to the Sennheisers, and have just really enjoyed them on an 8.5 hour return flight from Zurich to New York.I was also thrilled with a new Lenovo netbook S10. The key... | |
| Butler amplifiers Butler as in car amplifiers? | |
| Solid state power amps.; on or off? I feel a bit guilty in the camp of leaving SS amps ON ON ON ON ON ON ON - all the time.Usually, it strikes me as a tweaky audiophile indulgence, but I can also say that I never ever had one single problem with an Aragon power amp that I left on 24... | |
| Quatre dg-250 amplifier These are very rare, and very special amps.I first heard one circa 1980 when I was just getting into this hobby.As I was in junior high school, the system was impossibly expensive and exotic - an Apt Holman preamp, Quatre Gain cell, Dahlquist spea... | |
| Review: Mye Sound speaker stands Magnepan- MG-20 Tweak I am still fascinated by the debate here.Whatever. I am enjoying my Myes. | |
| FISHER 500c what's it worth? My Dad had one of these, too.There seeems to be a bit of a cult following for them, so shoudnt be too hard to sell.Listening to Steely Dan Aja just after it came out throgh some 70's headphones plugged into Dad's Fisher 500 - that is what got me i... | |
| Vintage Japanese Turntables Viridian, thank you.Wizard, yes, an excellent candidate which is on my short list and the turntable I loved as a kid.Also like the huge Denons with the illuminated switches, so wondering if I could rip out the factory tonearm which also relates to... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt As previously discussed, I use two "cheap as dirt" A500s in a monoblock configuration for my desktop, and a third in another office.I use them for cable TV, CDs, DVDs, and all PC based applications including music.In about 2 years, I have used the... | |
| Despriately looking for amp for Maggies 20.1 HotsauceAs a fellow Magneplanar enthusiast, I am glad to hear your Krells are working well.Just curious re "several HT receivers" but did a dealer recommend that combination?For other suggestions here.....I have never tried them but suspect Paraso... | |
| An Advent Guy Other than higher resolution, which can also be defined as listening fatigue, there have been very few, if any, improvements in audio since about 1989.Cheers,cwlondon | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood If Steven Spielberg walked into an audio store, and was mesmerized by say, an Oracle CD transport or turntable, most hi fi store owners:1) Wouldn't recognize him2) Would ignore him and/or be really condescending because he was wearing jeans3) Woul... | |
| Best John Mayer Album The absolute BEST John Mayer album is not a John Mayer album. It is a Herbie Hancock album: Possibilities.Only one song by John Mayer, but Christina Aguilera, Annie Lennox and others are also riveting. The DVD is more fun if you have good sound fo... | |
| Best "dark side of the moon" I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us are. | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables In another thread, someone mentioned that the flexible 4 AWG as sold by partsexpress.com for about 2 bucks a foot is pretty darn close to the insides of certain mega buck, monster cables.So another idea for this timeless thread: is there some way ... | |
| An Off Topic Question Re Off Topic Questions Swampwalker and ngjockey thank you so much...we are trying to clean up soot and figure this out...It seems propane is not used much in our village and there is a lot of red tape involved in getting a permit for the tank.We believe the furnace date... |