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| Rives Audio Consulting - Advice? Hi,You will want to do the Level 1 service. I recently did that with Rives, and I am currently assembling everything from the plans.You can't go wrong with a Rives consultation, it's the best money you can spend for your stereo. The speaker/room i... | |
| Sealed Monitor Speakers Here is another vote for the GR Research Neo 2x. They are available in kit form, but there are those whole will build them for you on Danny's forum on Audiocircle. The cabinets are available fully built from Parts Express.I had a pair built for me... | |
| Pairing surround processor with tube power amp Hi. I had a pair of Cary/AES EL34 monoblocks powering my front speakers, fed from an Anthem D2 processor. Worked great, sounded great. | |
| I need some advice on High End Car Audio... You will need to find a great dealer, who has a real understanding of high-end audio. Cars can sound really, really good, but it is very rare to find a car audio dealer that has a clue whatsoever. Most car audio shop owners have never heard a real... | |
| Netflix and Tivo to stream internet movies to Tivo Have you tried watching streaming movies from netflix? Mega, mega compression. Very messy image.You are right, of course, but streaming video over the internet to our TV's is the lossy MP3 of video. Not good for people who have any interest in vid... | |
| AV123 LS6 Line Source up and running Thanks for the comments... as I mentioned in my last post, I confirmed all of my observations with moving the non-playing speakers out of the room. There was no noticable change to the overall character of either speaker with the other out of the ... | |
| AV123 LS6 Line Source up and running Hey,Regarding comparing speakers that are next to one another... I agree there is "some" effect, feel free to disagree with me, but for ME, I can easily hear the major differences in designer priority with the speakers right next to one another. W... | |
| Why do dealers do this? I went to a car audio place once, and asked if they had any high end drivers as I was redoing my car stereo at the time. I was looking for Morel, Focal, Dynaudio, Scan-speak, etc. quality drivers.The guy (who I think was the owner?) told me that t... | |
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| Dynaudio Confidence C1: looking for speaker cable. I had the S1.4, and tried Kimber, Signal, and DH Labs.They all sounded the same. I'd look into Signal cable or Blue Jeans cable to find some well built cables that sound just as good as anything else. | |
| Ripping CDs to lossless in Itunes.. HiFi approved? hi wireless,Thanks for the comment, but I chose apple for a smooth integration with my iPod, iPhone and iTunes. Currently this is all I am using to play back these files.If it comes down to it, they can be converted back to wav, and then to anothe... | |
| Ripping CDs to lossless in Itunes.. HiFi approved? Hi Guys,Thanks for the replies. I have no trouble believing that hard drive based audio can be as good or better than standard spinning a disc in real time, I just wanted to make sure that the Itunes importer doesn't have any problems with error c... | |
| Where to buy nice audio chairs / loveseats? Hello - Yes! I clearly cannot read. I looked up the ekornes stuff and it looks VERY nice. Their website is also very professional, and speaks to what I am looking for.It looks like circle furniture carries this brand, and I'm planning on going dow... | |
| Where to buy nice audio chairs / loveseats? Hi,Thanks for the replies...Larryken - I looked through Lazyboy's online catalog, and didn't see much that was suited to audio/HT. Do you have any specific examples?Chadnliz - That's a good point (that general furn. stores might have stuff). I've ... | |
| Should I upgrade from B&W CDM 7SEs to Quad 22L2s "Any thoughts?"Save your money for things that matter much, much more, like speakers, front ends, and room treatments.Until you have an A+ system in a well setup room, I'd leave the Blue Jeans cables in. They are well made, good sounding cables. |