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| How Much Have You Lost Thru' The Upgrade Process? well, i've gone through 7 amplifiers since 1980- the last four were pretty expensive investments. but each change brought about marked improvements and therefore i learned a great deal about the effects of a really good amp (solid state) in my own... | |
| Best speakers for 3 cord rock and roll i took a chance with some jbl L-series speakers (mine are L-830 6inch 3 ways). they are very dynamic speakers, and for not alot of money you can buy a floorstander. it will image, it will produce a very convincing wall of sound. it will lack some ... | |
| Revel new Ultima2 Salon have you heard it ? kenyt- i am fascinated by the fact that you heard these speakers at CES with a ml-390s cd player. and they sounded great. am i missing something here? that cdp is "ancient history" as far as everyone is concerned. except for me since i have one an... | |
| Mark levinson 30.5 and 31.5 vs todays cd playerrs THE levinson reference components you have are NOT dry sounding. some of the very best and most expensive of today's players will resolve more information, but having owned a 360s/37 combo, i feel levinson led the way in redbook-cd realism for qui... | |
| Did anyone see the Rolling Stone article? can you describe the article in a bit more detail, as i don't subscribe to RS (or watch much TV)? thanks.PS- i know i'm an INCREDIBLE BORE, but i have to reiterate that i enjoy RADIO news and entertainment more than TV. | |
| Is it best to leave gear on or to shut it off? anything with a microprocessor in it should be disconnected from your power source or at least put in standby; you would never want your computer to deal with a brown out and stereo equipment these days is unfortunately very sensitive to dust, hea... | |
| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it if you can tolerate the surface noise from older records there's no reason not to at least get a thorens with a $150 cartridge. alblums are nice to hold and look at/read while you listen- unlike cd's with those horrid little booklets i rarely pull... | |
| Swiss amps "timex- it takes a licking but keeps on ticking..."but it's not made by rolex, which, from what i've heard, does NOT take a licking and stops ticking even if handled with kid gloves. i had a meta research dac made by goldmund which sounded (hones... | |
| RAVE---Jeff Rowland Service JRDG is one of the few manufacturers that have limited their products to only amps and preamps. i'm no expert on their new digital-based amplifiers, but on all of their previous products the performance is (just about) as good as anything made any... | |
| New update for VPI tables i too get annoyed with all of the vpi upgrades. even some people that sell them have expressed "ambivalence" about the merits of some of these "improvements". i have an original aries and i LIKE the platter; the arm (a mere "10") is elegant and fu... | |
| If you started over what would you do differently? while in college i didn't have a turntable and therefore no space for a record collection, so i figured i would get more records when i graduated. upon graduation i rushed out to buy a new reel to reel, a thorens TT, and some mid-fi electronics.bu... | |
| New VPI one thing does come to mind regarding VPI and their belts, which instead of being flat black rubber, are round and clear flexible plastic, and need "talc" to give them the proper "lack of grip" on the platter. the talc doesn't confine itself to th... | |
| Pushing the envelope on B&W 802 series3 unfortunately, your speakers, especially the kevlar midranges, are still considered to be one of the fastest, most accurate drivers on the planet (unless you have the ears of a martian).this means the sky is the limit on what amp and preamp you co... | |
| Why spend megabucks on a tuner? i spent micro-bucks on my tivoli #3 radio. i added the stereo speaker, and split the subwoofer output in two so i have two sub's as well. i have this four piece system arranged on either side of my bed. i get alot of stations, especially late at n... | |
| Am I Bad Listener? wellll, you do sound frustrated by the tone of your inquiry.as far as i'm concerned, ultra-high-end audio results in two things (sound wise)- surround sound using just two loudspeakers, AND, textural detail, which is present on ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS... |