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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? As some of you know I moved to Oregon about 18 months ago and found a thriving audiophile community, surprising given the population. I've been distracted of late, I bought a Porsche Cayman coupe in July and the first thing I did was change out th... | |
| Nitty Gritty 1.5Fi vs. VPI HW16.5vs. Okki Nokki I sold my Nitty Gritty 1.5FS in favor of a VPI 16.5The NG's advantage is it applies the fluid on the record for you with a simple push of a button, whereas the VPI is a manual process (squirt some fluid on, work it in with the supplied brush). I a... | |
| In the under $2500 category, diminishing returns? Balanced Audio Tube Integrated | |
| Furutech Acoustic panel room Diffuser? I did not contact Elite since I bought the panels from the Canadian distributor, I've since moved to the U.S. It wouldn't be fair to drag Scot into this, but I have followed up directly with the distributor I bought the panels from in Canada, and ... | |
| Furutech Acoustic panel room Diffuser? An email exchange with Furutech Me: I bought a pair of RWL-1 tuning panels five years ago and have the original boxes/packing. Over time the silk material has wrinkled and sagged (I suppose gravity is doing its thing). Can you repair this cosmeti... | |
| Covering RPG Skyline with fabric The fabric may sag or wrinkle over time, it certainly did with my tuning panels. Furutech did not help me at all..An email exchange with Furutech Me: I bought a pair of RWL-1 tuning panels five years ago and have the original boxes/packing. Over t... | |
| Partly cloudy, with a chance of ... My company moved our email to the cloud six months ago, I suspect our website and other stuff is next (maybe it already is?). Before we were cloud based I would have to initiate a VPN connection then open Outlook, the cloud-master means I don't ne... | |
| It was 44 years ago that... I'm amazed no one has mentioned the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds". Arguably the most influential album ever, including the Fab Four. | |
| New Album from The Cars "Move Like This" Move Like This is great, one of the more enjoyable discs I've picked up in quite some time. Highly recommended!!! | |
| building on a budget--looking for amp advice NAD integrated should fit the bill, take a look around | |
| $2000 Budget for a speaker + integrated amplifier My bedroom rig costs a lot less than that: Linn Classik and Spica TC-50 speakers. Sounds awful good.. really good! | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Current matters when you're driving difficult loads, and as Tvad mentioned, there's no real drawback. I value systems as follows: source=>preamp=>amp=>speakers. There's a ton of excellent speakers that are hard to drive (I've owned Apogee... | |
| Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics? Well, in my experience I haven't come across high current amplifiers that double down and sound anything less than stellar. If an amp cannot double down I'll pass on it...why limit your choice of speakers due to challenging impedance loads and such? | |
| Work a nice tube integrated amp into my system? I bought one of these off a gent here on the 'Gonhttp://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?intatube&1304301167&/BAT-VK-300X-Integrated-AmpI'm [i]very[/i] pleased with the integrated, and pretty hard to beat for $2500 | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave As a card-carrying male I agree with Elizabeth, I'm happy to be considered a stereotype:Football, fast cars, big tits, curvy ass babes, big stereos Amen!! Sub sonic bass? Not my thing, I'm all about an accurate/holographic mid-range for the most p... |