czarivey

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32" television
Sony XBR Wega, the latest CRT with all HD/HDMI capabilities will easily smoke any plazma, LCD or LED for good. +you're getting bullet-proof reliability for at least 4 lives of any flat pannel known to break really fast. 
does import cds sound better
some of them do. i like german and uk ones over us. depending on their collectability value they may or maynot worth the money spent as per perhaps domestic cds.i didn't like quality of bmg or columbia house domestic cds at all. they were far infe... 
Does anyone really need to spend 10k on power
Taters, I'd say perhaps their foolish children, but not them. If I were salesman I'd certainly look for early 20's child and brainwash. It's much easier than same to 60 year old established millionaire. 
Solar Power
meaningless doing that just for audio. 
Correct Phono Preamp Gain Setting
at 58db you get larger dynamic headroom. at 71db you compress signal lots.i have to turn volume '3 hours later' vs. digital playback. as previous posters mentioned, it's normal. 
Audio for kids
vintage receiver, descent working player and boston bookshelf speakers put together for less than $100 will to the trick. 
Does anyone really need to spend 10k on power
Millionaire??? Oh gimme break! Most of them will count every penny and ending up with some simple Belkin or Tripplight for their Dennon AVR/sound bar entertainment system.That's one of the tricky part of being a millionaire. 
Isolation under Berkeley DAC2
done quite a few experiments upto keeping dac in my own hands vs. placed onto the shelf; placing it onto the walker racing cones, flipping it upside down, mounting spikes instead of feet and still still couldn't agitate any difference at all posit... 
Is a hairbrush available?
I don't dig to karijoki or minus music to accompany singin'. I like it with guitar piano or harmonica. Don't care pretty much about mirror, but would probably wear dark glasses to create image of not seing public at all just like Stevie Wonder, Ra... 
Challenge: Best $2K-ish floorstander
7b must be pretty popular speaker than if you were able to sell it in a week. That means many other folks have different opinion on them. 
How does one "Get lost in the music"?
I usually get lost when I hear Kenny G, Celine Dion, Yanni, Justin Timberlake, Madonna and Neil Young.Certainly pop music isn't for me and prefer to listen to REAL musicians. A good packed quality bowl of weed blended with great progressive rock s... 
How to meaningfully audition speakers??
Wolf, Can I purchase a ticket to your concert?Make sure I will have enough time to run to dealer with my earplugs to audition speakers :))) 
Does anyone really need to spend 10k on power
$10k conditioners are not always luxury items. they may be necessary, but not for home audio. 
Challenge: Best $2K-ish floorstander
Used Aerial 10T, if you have enough juice for them. 
How to meaningfully audition speakers??
for this you need good microphone or good acoustic transducer(or few), good recorder(or multi-track... teac 4-track r2r is one of the great examples), good player, good room and possibly good amplifier. in addition you'll need a musical instrument...