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Items for sale here and on ebay without remotes....
Stolen stuff gets fenced or pawned quickly. For cash. No grab and run thief is going to take the time to open an E-bay account, tied to a credit card through Paypal, pay to ship an item and wait for payment... seriously... 
Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
My comment in the NY Times on the passing of Anthony Bourdain:If we're lucky, once or twice in our lifetimes we are exposed to the words and ideas of someone who, for whatever reason, speaks to our souls. For me, one of those few voices was that o... 
Vinyl - Hearing The Beginning of the Song One Revolution Earler
Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert on several different vinyl versions and the original ECM cd version had that issue. The Tower Records/ECM SACD version does not. 
A Millennial recounts their journey from low-end to high-end audio.
Thanks for your post - anyone selling or manufacturing audio equipment should use your points as critical information in understanding the current marketplace.For example, some things that doesn't happen so much anymore are scenarios where you mig... 
Oppo Ceasing production
It would seem that on one hand, the parent company makes more on other lines than on these and has shifted resources, on the other, for whatever reason, they were not willing to raise their prices enough to make continued production feasible. The ... 
Curious How These Nordost Speaker Cables Do What They Do
@jmcgrogan2 +1, squared.  Tone control is a very apt description of cabling, along with your statement about choosing components or cables to do so, more or less. Systems with no onboard tone controls in my experience, have seemed to be more respo... 
Quincy Jones Interview
Clickbaits from interviews are very popular these days and I’m sure Quincy said fairly innocuous things for most of this one but the 3 or 4 that would elicit OMGs were pushed forward as being the most important ones he said. Sort of like sitting a... 
Shopping at Goodwill anyone?
Goodwill International CEO Jim Gibbons made $729,000 in salary and deferred compensation in 2017, nowhere near what comparable CEOs make.... 
Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD
The main point is that Petty wasn't using his meds recreationally — he was simply doing his best to cope with a crippling injury that was only getting worse, all in order to live up to his touring commitments. At his level of fame, he wouldn't h... 
Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 1)
Bo the OP says "You have no idea what sound is..." I say Bo the OP has no idea what coherent thought is...I’d wager the majority of us here know what sound is and have a reasonable idea of how to achieve better sound than most, given the limitatio... 
What is your favorite budget audio component?
gsm18439653 posts11-29-2017 12:46amSpica TC-50 speakers. +1 
Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio
@toddverrone +1000 
Dealers hijacking the discussions
1-Frankly, the issue with Audiotroy's posts are not his initial posts; it's the pissing contests that result when gpgr4blu decides to weigh in. If gpgr4blu would take a flyer, I guarantee Audiotroy wouldn't post ad infinitum defending his positi... 
Wilson Sasha 2 Pre owned?
Any post that is not specifically answering the posted question is spam, and unwanted. As such, half of this thread would not be missed if it were deleted. Are there moderators here that can remove these types of posts?  
The longest you have owned any gear?
Hafler DH 220 amp since 1984. NAD 1130 pre-amp and Spica TC-50 speakers since 1987