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| The best mini monitors you have heard? b&w silver signatures sounded really spectacular years ago when i heard them, with exceptional speed and imaging. plus i liked the overall balance without straining to reproduce the lowest octave of bass, which would have screwed up the lack o... | |
| Record wear buy some good record sleeves. the record player isn't going to damage your records as much as not buying a decent record rack and re-sleeving the records that come in ultra-cheap paper. outer sleeves are not expensive either, and preventrecords fr... | |
| One's trash is someone else's treasure guys guys guys!! y'know, the salvation army is always looking for a few good men... you call them up and give away some of the excess stuff you've been accumulating (i know i have plenty of items stacked up in my closets). i gave away quite a few ... | |
| Levinson 23.5 vs. 331 amplifiers - warm vs. cool? the 23.5 gets very hot period, whether you're playing music or not, so it definitely needs adequate ventilation. no way i would keep it on all the time, but you could leave it on when you're going to be home for awhile. imagine how hot the 20.6 (p... | |
| What was your biggest vinyl surprise for $.99 well, guess what (regarding the d.brubeck alblum "My Favorite Things") that i thought was unavailable? it has been re-issued as a japanese import- 20 bit remastered- in 2006. Amazon wants $35 for it but then there's other sources. if you like paul... | |
| What was your biggest vinyl surprise for $.99 my dad finally bought a stereo system for the family many years ago, and started bringing home alblums, such as montovani, sara vaughn, streisand, and a brubeck alblum on columbia called "My Favorite Things" played by his classic group (p.desmond ... | |
| Most PRACTICAL, yet good sounding REEL to REEL ??? i own 5 reel to reel tape recorders. why? i like to record vinyl and do alot of editing (choosing only the tracks i like). secondly, you can plug in microphones, even really cheap ones, and have an absolute blast recording music or even voices. my... | |
| First cd purchase sorry to change the subject, but how many 'goners got "the" sony- you know, the little one with the pop-up lid and the wall-wart, with the crystal-LED display, which was to my knowledge, the 1st unit available? i felt a little light-headed as i se... | |
| Levinson 33H vs Boulder 1060/2060?? well, to turn the coin over for a moment, the dartzeel amp offers a reportedly lovely voice, but only comes in one color (i mean one size of course). one preamp also, which is prohibitively expensive (10-15 grand oughta distinguish between two str... | |
| Levinson 33H vs Boulder 1060/2060?? if someone would re-read the question and compare the three amplifiers' sound, let's say through a high-resolution speaker (B&W801's, watt/puppies, thiels, maggies), MAXX1973 as well as myself (and others) would learn more about the boulder so... | |
| Best Place for Negative Reviews? when i first started reading the "little" stereophiles, many reviews would compare two (or more) very similar components price-wise leaving everything else in the system the same.these real-time A/B tests and the resultant impressions imhogave the... | |
| the continued dumbing down i still feel there's a hidden message/meaning in the article that can be interpreted as useful or instructional. first of all, there's no argument that advances in science (nano-technology?) may/probably will make music and video storage smaller a... | |
| Insanely Expensive....and Worth Every Penny transparent cable prices vary by, even in the opinion of the people who manufacture them, "a VERY ILLOGICALLY LARGE amount of money". but i got hooked on upgrading them over several years, primarily because i felt my speakers had an almost limitle... | |
| "Great RCA interconnects under $100?" my 1st hi-end cables (yrs.ago) were audioquest lapis. you might get them now fairly inexpensively. alternately try some inexpensive transparent cables (they DO make entry-level cables). plus, the company does alot of (imho) pretty valid research, ... | |
| SF Extrema,Few q what's with all this talk about WATTS?? are we talking about the same speaker?? SUMIKO at the stereophile show used an audio research solid state stereo amp; i believe it put out 200 watts per channel. certainly no more than that. i will admit tha... |