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| Money no object,,,,which speakers would you own??? Amati Homage? O'Heocha? Kharma Exquisite? You guys have weird taste in aesthetics. They all kind of look ugly to me...No takers on the Kharma Enigma Reference system? Only $1M, and, if I do my zero's right, weighs a mere 11 tons and produces 100 d... | |
| Best stands for Proac Response 2 I read the audiopoints paper. Frankly, for all their talk of coulomb friction, they are doing precisely what I'm talking about. F = dP/dt; typically this means the bigger the mass, the more force required to move it. The idea is to create (in effe... | |
| Best stands for Proac Response 2 Warrenh & Theaudiotweak, sorry but you may have missed the point. The sand/lead, in this instance, is for mass loading, not "vibration absorption." (Yes Warrenh, I did read your review). The Target R2s are filled with sand or lead, thus creati... | |
| Best stands for Proac Response 2 At the time, I believe they were designed to be used with the Target R2 stands. They need something massive to be coupled to in order to sound their best. The R2s weigh about 75 pounds each, and when filled with sand, are basically immovable. That... | |
| Zen and the art of home theatre adjustments I'm a tweaker myself. I'd recommend picking up a decent video calibration DVD like the AVIA home theater disc and following the sequence they lay out. There is a "better" way of sequencing adjustments so that you end up with a decent result.Based ... | |
| best amp for Pro Ac Response 2 I'll second Dopogue re: tubes. I ran mine with both a pair of Quicksilver Silver Edition Mono amps as well as an ARC VT100. The Quickies were a bit dark for my taste. I'll note, as a side reference, that at the time the Response 2s were made, ProA... | |
| Some of my favorite songs are...... Color me surprised that 13 made it onto someone else's list--nice pick Walter, although I have a fondness for the Magnapop cover. Lets see, beyond that at the present moment and mood...Sugar, "Hoover Dam"The Clash, "Safe European Home"Gram Parsons... | |
| best way to rip cd files onto computer? Since mp3 is a compression algorithm, is can't be "lossless." For the best quality rips of CDs to .wav files, use Exact Audio Copy (www.exactaudiocopy.de). Its cheap and works better than anything else in a microsoft environment. | |
| Best cover tunes Hmmm... In the theme of tribute albums, I highly recommend Return of the Grievous Angel. Remarkable covers of Gram Parsons' tunes--not really a weak cover on the whole album. | |
| Best cover tunes The Avenger's "Paint it Black". Mick just wishes he had their angst.I've always also had a soft spot for Magnapop's version of Alex Chilton's "13". | |
| Retail Buying - Reality Check Foreverhifi2000, your response cracked me up!Beautiful parody of the egotistical self-righteous attitude that typifies why I so dislike high end stores! Very, very funny. You captured that I-know-so-much-more-than-you essence so well--you know, th... | |
| Retail Buying - Reality Check I'm with Inna--I visited my "local" stereo shop last weekend and the sales guy (who I made arrangements with in 5 minutes over the phone) kept me on ice for an hour while he closed a five figure HT installation. That said, on the plus side, I had ... | |
| Anybody hear of Jack Johnson? He's not exactly an *unknown*, think he was even nominated for the Grammies or somesuch and our local AC stations are playing divots in "Bubbletoes" (and, before that, some other JJ song). He's a retooled musician--formerly, I gather from the medi... | |
| What to place under speaker spikes on hardwood I'd avoid coins, unless you want holes in your floor. (Might also tend to affect how you can slide your speakers). ;)I say this because I had Response 2s and Target R4 stands on pennies, and the target spikes punched right thru (as I discovered up... | |
| OK 2 use different OT taps for 2 sides of 1 amp? Thanks for the responses. As long as I'm not going to damage the amp, I'll probably play a bit and see what sounds better. |