gunbei
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| Recommendations for small, wall mount speakers There may be better speakers out there for your application, but from personal experience I would recommend the NHT SuperZero. I've had a pair since 1995, and they've been just great.Brand new they ran about $125 each, used on Audiogon or Ebay muc... | |
| digital cable differences I've tried five different digital cables with my current setup and have heard varying degrees of differences. In some instances there were slight volume and tonal differences, and also differences in soundstage size.75 ohm hasn't always been the b... | |
| Maxwell Smart and Miles Davis? "The ol' slow down the Nature Boy trick.""That's the second time this week." | |
| Therapeutic music: Lee, thanks for the heads up on "R." Carlos Nakai and Mary Youngblood. I'll have to look into more of their offerings. Thanks! | |
| High End Audio Equipment, Status Symbol? Very well said CW. Bottled water and Bose systems are classic examples of marketing without a product of any substance to back it up.Personally, it doesn't matter to me because I'm in this hobby because I love it. Listening to music and building s... | |
| Therapeutic music: My massage therapist plays some ethereal music by N. Carlos Nakai, a Native American flutist which puts me in a trance like state. Sometimes I feel like I'm hovering three feet above the floor, in a semi conscious state. | |
| High End Audio Equipment, Status Symbol? And, I'm the guy with the expensive pool cue! | |
| What do You listen to? I constantly listen to some musicians I'm sure almost no one on Audiogon or most people on earth are familiar with.One of my favorite guitarists is Robby Longley. I first heard him four or five years ago playing live on Saturday night at a Borders... | |
| High End Audio Equipment, Status Symbol? There's a term for guys that show up with expensive cues in pool halls. FISH! | |
| High End Audio Equipment, Status Symbol? Ben makes a good point. Most non-audiophiles think Bose and Bang Olufsen represent high and audio, and wouldn't have a clue as to what any of the gear in my rack is. Well...sometimes I don't either!There is a certain inherent snob factor in our ho... | |
| Need some audiogon expertise Kool, from what you describe even though the specs say otherwise, it seems you might NOT be experiencing impedance mismatching with your preamp and amp.I agree that experimenting with speaker placement would be the best place to start. Try pushing... | |
| Need some audiogon expertise Cables and cords are good way to tune a system, but it may be better to make sure everything else is matched first.Tubes are also a good way to tune your system, but you seem to have everything dialed in and the bass may be tough to solve by chang... | |
| I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah Yeah, Shirley Horn is pretty damn good! MArakanetz has me interested in this Lhasa lady though. I'll have to find her this weekend. | |
| how does paypal work Ed, you bring up an interesting point regarding PayPal operating like a bank. It seems that many states feel PayPal should fall under the jurisdiction of a banking commission and subject to their laws and regulations. | |
| how does paypal work I've been using it for a few years now and love it. The method I use is the bank-to-bank funds transfer, it's immediate and most sellers will start the shipping process once they get e-mail noification from PayPal that funds have been transferred ... |