cwlondon
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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Oh....one important note I forgot to mention: for both the Porsche Boxster S and the Ferrari 360, I would swap my ARC and Levinson amps and Magneplanars for an MP-3 walkman and Bose speakers before I would drive either car with a clutchless transm... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 1) Arctic Silver/Boxster Red Porsche Boxster S, obsessively upgraded and modified: shortened shift, lowered stiffened suspension, aluminum pedals, Euro indicators, stainless exhaust, hidden front and rear radar and laser detectors and of course up... | |
| Weirdest Question asked when selling gear? I go out of my way to be polite, friendly, reasonable and professional when making significant purchases of any kind, but as a buyer I ALWAYS ask "why are you selling" and I am happy to answer this question in considerable detail when selling.How ... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Interesting to hear many of you mentioning your love of vintagey components and old systems. I would vote for a system I had in high school in 1979: Kenwood KD-500 with SME III and Grado Signature/Dynavector Ruby, Yamaha C-2a preamp, Hafler DH-500... | |
| Audiophile Changer: Cool or Hopeless Compromise? Thank you everyone. I am talking about a "jukebox" type set up -- the 5 disc changers don't really help me. More specific advice on 100 + changers would be most helpful, as would any explanations/suggstions on upsampling. | |
| dozen must have jazz cd s Pop is not jazz. Congratulations to Shelton for most evolved taste so far. My vote for Shelton as jazz arbiter. | |
| Tag McLaren Audio Rcupka, glad you are happy with your Tag and I wish you the best, but I still don't see the relationship between Formula One and audio. NASA may put men on the moon, but I wouldn't comission them to build my SACD player or preamp. As for the desig... | |
| The whole 9 yards - Sleeper CD Who's Got the Last Laugh Now? I heard that on the plane and thought it was great!!! | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings OK -- something from deep in my memory banks and a much cheesier (as in Cheese Whiz) genre -- but Chuck Mangione's never even made it to the screen soundtrack to the apparently ill fated movie the "Children of Sanchez" . A late 70's double album t... | |
| How much would be lost if........ Why the sudden defense of 5.1? I thought HT was routinely trashed on this forum and previous threads concluded that center channel speakers were at best mediocre and arguably unnecessary. This, by the way, is the gospel as preached by Mr Levinson ... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings What about Keith Jarret "Facing You"? | |
| Noise canceling headphones? I fly regularly between NY and London and I have both the etymotics and a pair of Sony noise canceling headphones. I find the Etymotics a bit thin sounding and quite uncomfortable after an hour or so, although the custom ear pieces might help. Has... | |
| Sour DOW/NASDAQ to kill digital future? With big companies that develop these types of technologies, R&D marches on. Slowing of high end sales is another matter altogether. The only thing killed by the bubble bursting is wehavenorevenues.com and Iamagenius.com companies and the extr... | |
| "All Linn" ... is it still a good idea ? All Linn is an superb idea. For best results, you should also give a large percentage of your income to scientology. | |
| Shahinian Speakers Do you mean the Shahinian Obelisk? Despite their audiophile cult following, I don't get it. A friend of mine traded in a wonderful pair of Apogee Stages and bought these and they were one of the least impressive things I have ever heard. Sounded l... |