hbarrel
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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 66 Hemi Belvedere (original paint, original 19k miles) is my weekend beater. It has a Arlen Vanke prepared motor that dyno'd at 740HP on Ray Barton's dyno. It's an original Hemi car. The serial number says so. The original motor, tranny and etc. a... | |
| What's everybody listening to this evening? Danny Gatton - "Cruisin' Deuces"David Bowie - "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (The CD digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios. It's pretty good) | |
| Updating my preamp.Frustrating..You Bet Don't be afraid of spending less money. If a Audio Research LS15 should be available... buy it. Go to www.audioreview.com and check out what others have said. There are almost eighty reviews. If 80% are lying you still end up with one of the most ... | |
| Return to Audio: What Products to Consider? First and foremost... Budget first. (And don't forget about cables in the budget. Many beginners do.) Room size / configuration second. The speakers should be appropriate to the room. But the source components are the most important purchase!Sourc... | |
| Return to Audio: What Products to Consider? Have you set a budget? If so how much? Cables and innerconnectors (power cords maybe also) need to considered. Depending on the system I'd recommend at least trying to figure out a minimum wiring budget right from the get go. Is it unreasonable to... | |
| What Rags carry the most review weight??? I've found that in the old format Stereophile was more weight to carry than The Absolute Sound. However given The Absolute Sounds new format in the coming months it will be a toss up. The number of pages and paper thickness will most likely be the... | |
| 1,500 tube preamp which one? Thanks everyone.I found a ARC LS15 with NOS (70's) Sovtek tubes. I couldn't be happier. It's sweet.My system is now complete. I don't see any changes in the foreseeable future. That is unless I upgrade speaker wire to something better than six buc... | |
| How to fight dirty power - I need your help Hmmm the high voltage perked my interest. Just took the multimeter and did some checking. My 120v outlets are reading at 128v and it's noon with the outside temperature at 88 degrees and rising.Makes me wonder???? | |
| Burmester 001, comment please? Dinan said they are using MBL 101D speakers.I'll have to say "Now that's a stereo". | |
| What DAC should I buy? I'm floored, pleased , elated, happy... I've a MSB Gold Link III being feed by a AH! Noej Toebs 4000. I just added a Perpetual Technologies P*1A Digital Correction Engine. The purchase of the Correction Engine is by far and away the best money I'v... | |
| Best small monitor speaker 4 small room acoustics? My room fits your requirements. I'm using the Spendor 1/2's and couldn't be happier. They sound good to me and that's all that counts.Pure digital w/no preamp. | |
| Ah4000 CDP Directly connected to Stratos amp ? I ran my AH!4000 directly into my amp. (Threshold) I ended up and bought a Canary Island VPC-1 volume control unit for $245 off of Audiogon. Some might call it a "passive preamp". But in reality it's an unpowered volume control. Regardless, it wor... | |
| Met Richard Vandersteen today If DCM out of Michigan is still in business they had time aligned speakers. "Time Windows" | |
| Suggestion on spending 3500 For your volume control consider a Canary Island VPC-1. It will only take $250 of the $3500.I"ve had one in my system for less than a month. Wouldn't recommend it if I were unhappy. | |
| Quality Rock/Pop CD recordings Some what I consider to be fine recordings are... and some do depart from the requested genre...Heart - "The Road Home" - recorded live in a five hundred seat theater in bands hometown of Seattle. John Paul Jones produced it.Little Feat - "Waiting... |