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| Best CD/SACD under $1500 new or used I noticed on one of your earlier posts that you wanted a really good basic system. Suggestion: Get a Sony DVP-S9000ES on Audiogon for around $500 and save enough to get a good PC (such as JPS Labs Digital AC, $200-$250) and some mid to high-end IC... | |
| Hey, we don't get no respect High quality audio/music is an acquired taste, just like many of the finer things in life. Most people, first of all, have never been exposed to a truly exceptional hi-fi music system, or if they have, it has only been for a very short period of t... | |
| Denver Hi-End? Try Listen Up on South Pearl St., south of downtown Denver. Nice showroom, good people. They carry a lot of mid-high end, but also have some of the higher high-end. | |
| what is the best deal you ever got on audiogon ATI 2505 Amp for $1200 shipped. 5 x 250W of clean, clear, raw power. A good price for a 7/10 condition used, but it turned out it was a dealer going out of business and they had never even hooked it up because they never had a 20 amp circuit to pl... | |
| Acurus or Parasound I am not very familiar with Acurus, but I am very impressed with Parasound. I have an HCA-1200 II that is very similar in age and design to the 2200 II, and it continues to amaze me with the dynamics, clarity, and detail. It drives a pair of B&... | |
| The passing of Shirley Horn - Jazz Legend Let's don't forget her incredible piano artistry, right up there near the top with Ellington, Brubeck, McCoy Tyner, and Monk, etc. Just like her singing, the timing and inflections are amazing, chock full of soul. The real thing. | |
| The passing of Shirley Horn - Jazz Legend I shed a tear this morning after listening to the first few cuts on "The Main Ingredient", an album that Shirley recorded in her D.C. home in 1996. A great mix of some of jazz's old cats and young lions, like the late Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, R... | |
| 7/7 London Danlib 1,What in the hell does 9/11 have to do with Iraq? The answer: Nothing. People keep bringing them up in the same context as if they had something to do with each other and they don't. That is one of the ways that "ol W" and his buddy Dick d... | |
| Would Audiogoners be interested in this? Great stuff, thanks for the recent info.A request: Please indicate which format the new releases will be in.Example: Very interested in the Emmylou reissues, hopefully they will most likely be in DVD-Audio since they are coming from Warner. They w... | |
| Superbowl on High Definition For all of you who cannot receive over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts of CBS hi-def or live in marginal, intermittent areas like me (north of Denver), try DirecTV satellite. After much complaining by myself and many others, DirecTV is supposed to be doi... | |
| Which amplifier to drive B&W Nautilus 802? I don't know about any of the technical or mathematical reasons, but I have found that the 802's are dramatically different if you give them as many watts as you possibly can. I ran them with about 170W per speaker solid state for awhile, then sta... | |
| Any bluegrass fans? Emmylou Harris: "Roses In The Snow", from 1980, all acoustic, incl. Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Albert Lee, Brian Ahern, Emory Gordy, Jr., Jerry Douglas, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, etc. Awesome backup vocals on "Jordan" by Johnny Ca... | |
| Reccomendations for Nautilus Speaks I have the exact same speaker setup that you do. You are right about the Nautilus speakers being power hungry. They sound OK at lower power but every time I have increased the power to them it has made a HUGE difference. Greater level of detail, l... | |
| Should Escrow be Required? I was recently burned for about $2400 on Audiogon, from a guy with no feedback. I thought, well, at one time I had no feedback, this guy is just getting going on Audiogon, I can help him out and we will do a deal. From now on I will only use an es... | |
| Affordable separate vs. high end receiver – which I went through the same questions two or three years ago and did a lot of research, reading countless reviews (both online and in the press), a lot of listening at dealers, etc., etc. Finally decided to go with a receiver, mainly for convenience, ... |