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What's the best 7" & 8" woofers available?
These are the absolute "BEST", but at $500 ea. they better be. 8" custom Flex units from Audio Technology (Skaaning)founder of DynAudio and Scan Speak (think like buying a "over the top" custom designed Ferrari, with state of the art materials, fr... 
What's the best sounding dome tweeter available?
The standard Vifa ring radiator has an inherent resonance that keeps me from putting it anywhere near "the best tweeter" list. If I had to pick a reaonably priced tweeter, that comes damn close to the best of the best domes (which in my opinion is... 
What's the best sounding dome tweeter available?
There is one dome tweeter in this world that is completly over the top. It is the new Professional line Vifa Ring radiator with a housing machined from solid aluminum and triple tetraheron rear absorption chambers, manufactured with the best mater... 
Personal speaker evolution
Infinity Juniors $400Magnepan MG-1 $500DCM TF 700 $550Acoustat 1 + 1 $1100Polk SDA (my brain fart) $1150Magnepan MG-IIIa $1800Alon IV $2000Proac 2.5 $2800Avalon Ascents $5500Legacy Whisper $11900AV Reality 1.3P $1200 
Need in-wall speaker advice not expensive
Nordost? 
What's the best 5 disc cd player for under 1,000?
Kirk, How can you say such a qualified statement such as "radio shack modified by Paul Weitsel will beat ANYTHING Stan Warren has to offer"? How are you so sure of this? I and others have compared Stan's best digital work to top of the line Theta,... 
need help - Cd players
Modded Stan Warren CD players are the best sounding machines that I've ever heard in this price range. Additionally, his modded players have many of the same sonic qualities that you get in $3000+ players (great imaging, sweet highs, low grain, re... 
What speakers for a 10 x10 room?
I recently had the same quagmire to deal with in a 10 x 11 office that I wanted to put high end sound into. I tried many speakers, but all were either too mid-fi sounding, too big with boomy bass or too small with no real bass. My goal was to obta... 
CD Recorder
Now to confuse you....There is a CD burner made by Pioneer called the PDRW-739 that makes slightly BETTER sounding copies than the original. I know this sounds impossible, but there are valid technical reasons for why this is happening. Unfortunat... 
Deciding on the right huge speaker
Put Soundlab at the TOP of your must hear list. After I purchased a set of Legacy Whispers, I thought I made an intelligent decision. Then I heard my favorite music on a pair of Soundlabs. They re-define the word "transparency". Anyone want to buy... 
Bass Response and concrete floors
Concrete is the BEST floor to have, period! I've lived in seven different houses and the best sounding room by FAR has been my concrete floored room (carpet covered). The inital transients are better, the decay is much more deliniated and the over... 
Magnepan wire upgrade
As a former Magnepan owner I can tell you that there is quite a bit of wiring along with crossover part improvements that will take these speaekers to a whole new level. It't the removal of those damn "socks" that's such a pain in the ass. I can a... 
Are all blank CDR'S created equal ???
The absolute best are Mitsu. They have a patented dye which retains data much better. I've done listening tests on Phillips, Sony, TDK, Maxell, Mitsu (gold and silver), Kodak and Niamo and the Mitsu beat em all!Buy the Mitsu silver or Gold directl... 
vaporware
MITSU, MITSU, MITSU! They sound the best, and they have the least amount of optical defects. Their patented dye is MUCH more resistant to sunlight than all the others. I have no idea if these will last for 10 years +, but I've been told by quite a... 
CD - upgrade, replace used, buy new?
Hi,Having owned the Pioneer PD-93 myself I can tell you that it will still hold its own against the typical $1500 recommendations. The Pioneer is probably the best 20 bit cd player ever developed by a Japanese manufacturer. When I sold mine, the n...