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| A perfect song? What are your choices? “Pancho and Lefty” Written by Townes Van Zandt. Favorite/ best version is by Emmylou Harris. | |
| Best Value/Performance In An SACD Player For $2k, Or Less, Used? My Sony XA5400 ES is tied with one or two other pieces as the best audiophile gear investment I have made in 20+ years. Mine is about 8 years old and going strong, but that is with fairly light use. Never heard the claim about early laser failure.... | |
| Best cdp under $2,500 Sony XA5400ES, especially if you have a receiver or pre-pro that can accept the Sony's pure, unprocessed DSD signal via HDMI cable.The Sony also has both balanced and unbalanced outputs. | |
| Best Song Intro "Eight Miles High" by The Byrds. Chris Hillman's incredible bass licks, then Roger McGuinn on 12-string electric guitar, then perfect harmonies by the Byrds with the title line."Morning Dew" from the first Grateful Dead Warner Bros. album."Playing... | |
| Powerful and strong ss amp at low cost. Parasound. Incredible build quality for the price.Try the HCA-2200, or HCA-2200 II.Conservatively rated at 250W/ channel, high current.They come up for sale on 'gon quite often.Or if you really want some serious power and spend a bit more then the... | |
| Is 75 ohm IC OK from AVR to subwoofer? Many thanks to you guys for your help in responding to my question. It not only got answered but I got some great info that will help in the future.The amount of knowledge and expertise on this forum and people's willingness to share it is really ... | |
| Power Plant Premier making sound worse? I suggest calling PS Audio and discussing it with them, describing all of the details, as you did in your post. They are one of the most helpful and customer oriented companies around, and are usually willing to do just about anything to help you ... | |
| audiophile grade sub panel and breakers? Equi Tech makes a high grade subpanel that creates balanced power for all breakers right at the panel. They are usually used in high-end recording studios, but if you want to go all-out, and price is no object then they are the real deal. If I eve... | |
| Latest on Blu-Ray vs HD DVD ? The HD-DVD Toshiba HD-XA2 did go on sale yesterday (Sun.) for $299. It also includes a choice of 5 free HD-DVD's from a list of 15, sent by mail from Toshiba.As with many new formats, the prices started out high, probably to let the early adopters... | |
| HD receiver w/hdmi for Sony LCD television About three months ago I finished up my home theater showroom (in my house)and used the opportunity to upgrade several pieces of gear, incl. an HR20-700HD. I ordered it online through Best Buy, then picked it up at the local Best Buy. After 2 or 3... | |
| How good are "Oppo" players? See a review of an Oppo player in the latest edition (May '07) of Stereophile magazine, they seemed to be very impressed for the price. They recommended using an outboard DAC if you want to get closer to an "audiophile" quality level.Almost 100% o... | |
| Help Please recommend a 5ch amp around $2000 ATI 2505, used, on Audiogon. Minimum 250W/channel/8 ohms, all driven. Dynamics & slam when needed, feather touch finesse and detail at the other extreme. Extremely well built and durable.When they rarely come up for sale they go from $1500- $2... | |
| First song to "Blow You Away"... "Keep Your Knockers Up"- Rusty Warren- Played on my parent's turntable, I even remember the clicks and pops."You Ain't Nothin But A Hound Dog"-Elvis- Played on my older sister's turntable. Black album cover w/ pink letters. Probably my start down ... | |
| tight sound and tight $ sub for Silverline monitor For a smaller bedroom type system I recommend a 10" NHT w/ outboard amp, such as you will find here:http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?homesubw&1159491380I noticed the ad for this a few days ago. I have the same amp/sub combo in a smaller ... | |
| Why outlet makers warn against aluminum wires? The explanations that Jameswei gives above are correct. After the aluminum wire loosens then it can begin to arc to whichever connection is has come loose from, or even to an adjacent piece of metal. I own a remodeling/home theater business in Bou... |