cwlondon
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| Burned out hi fi salesman I started working in an audio store when I was 16 years old. At about $3.75 an hour as I recall, my only motivation was a love for music and audio. This cynical assessment of customers ability to spend never entered my mind - perhaps because I was... | |
| Which Patricia Barber album floats yer boat? Bigjoe and othersI, too, think Patricia Barber has veered into the genre of audiophile weirdo music that may be great for demonstrating tweaky gear or selling geeked out vinyl, but really doesnt rate for timeless music.Of course, people who live i... | |
| What are the best pc speakers? You will be one step closer to buying good speakers if you eliminate "PC" from the description.There are a number of active monitors including the Swans mentioned above. You could also look into powered nearfield "pro audio" monitors including Gen... | |
| Anyone notice House's loudspeakers? It is also interesting to note that Hugh Laurie plays an amazingly convincing American Manhattan father in Stewart Little. I am thrilled to think that my mother in law - who finds my electronics obsession ridiculous - is a huge Hugh Laurie/House f... | |
| Personal turntable/cartridge evolution ChadnlizYes, I think so -- it was a bronzey colored, supposedly rare tonearm by Grado, manufactured in the early 80's?It was very nicely constructed, had an S shaped wand and was relatively high mass as I recall.It was hyped and sold to me by my a... | |
| Personal turntable/cartridge evolution Circa 1970 Soundesign "stereo"Circa 1977 Secretly used Father's Garrard turntableCirca 1978 Sanyo TP 1020 "Direct Drive"! with Empire cartridgeCirca 1980 Kenwood KD 500 SME III Grado SignatureCirca 1982 Yamaha PX2 Linear tracking turntable Dynavec... | |
| Ebay fraud alert Is there some way to send an email that would make the computer explode in order to kill the "seller"?There is something particularly vile about this type of crime to me.We should have special laws to protect children and audiophiles. | |
| Klipsch vs Maggies decisions I am in a dilemma:For my birthday dinner, I am either going to have steamed vegetables, or rib steak au poivre with chocolate cake.My point is, I cant think of two speakers that are more dissimilar than Klipsch and Magneplanars.So perhaps you need... | |
| Tubes On Top Without Getting Ridiculous Well this is very interesting and thanks for ideas so far....Hmmmmm......I guess I need to do some more research and off the top of my head, I haven't a clue re crossover frequency for the maggies.The curious thing is that I would have sworn the s... | |
| Which NYC Dealers REALLY know how to setup a TT? The most successful NY dealers are the same as the most successful anything in NY:their first and foremost area of expertise is MAKING MONEY.I would, therefore, think you are much better off buying whatever you want, and finding an audiophile to h... | |
| magnepan tympani IVa updates? Actually, you should contact Steve Winey.The factory is terrific in general, and even better for Tympani questions, as they still consider it a flagship product and give some degree of VIP service to all Tympani inquiries.Good luck. | |
| $20 tweak to tame that digital shrillness Sounds like he has the secret to the mysterious Burwen Bobcat?When this software hits freeware sites, will this decrease the used value of the $1500 Burwen Bobcat device? | |
| Your Private Audio Museum Your Private Audio Museum AKA Audiophile CONFESSIONS....A few years ago, I noticed a Marantz receiver on ebay in seemingly perfect condition. Now I have no particular thing about Marantz and in fact I think I have never owned a Marantz component.B... | |
| Which Patricia Barber album floats yer boat? To those of you who a) are audiophiles andb) found some of the more strange singing to not be your cup of teaYou should rush right out and buy "Split".Trust me, it's all about Split.The rest of this stuff is from her commercial and/or experimental... | |
| Your Private Audio Museum Glad you guys like this thread - the ultimate anti WAF thread.The integrated amp was a Yamaha A-1 which further to Joeylawn's comment was all about the LIGHTS, in this case, mysteriously glowing colored lights.I can also relate to Whart's comment ... |