jimburger
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| Good choices in a used A/V pre-amp? Another vote for the Lexicon DC-1. With Logic 7 processing, it was designed for 7.1. DTS capable as well as Dolby Digital. One of the easiest processors to program on top of that. I still know of one that was installed in a million dollar theater(... | |
| Review: Magnepan MG-3.6r Speaker I had have had success using Infinity Audio's Silverbridge jumpers on my 3.6R's. They are pure silver with teflon dialectric. They are terminated using the Cardas pins. They are of a heavy enough gauge to facilitate good current flow which improve... | |
| What other obsessions do you have? My wife and I ride our road bikes on the weekends to the local coffee house or deli. About 20 miles each trip. She rides a custom Mondonico and I have a custom Serotta CSi. We ride steel bikes because we are not as svelt as we were in our younger ... | |
| Best Bike to ride before a good listening session I ride a handbuilt steel Serotta CSI frame with a steel fork built in 2001. Components are 27 spd triple chainring Campy Racing T and Chorus components. Pedals are by Look. Bulletproof handbuilt 36 spoke wheels with Torelli rims by Terry Shaw of S... | |
| DD DTS THX.............. A lot of people love to dump on the old Lexicon DC-1. Admittedly, for 2 channel decoding of CD's its not audiophile quality(I wouldn't use it for 2 channel music either), but for motion picture sound it has some tremendous features. Movies are mos... | |
| THX vs. DTS There is a LOT of misunderstanding of what THX is all about. Originally, in terms of circuitry in a pre-pro, it was about post-processing the signal(Cinema EQ, timbre matching, adaptive decorrellation, etc.) in a Dolby Pro-logic system to make the... | |
| Great country music recording Alison Krause and Patty Loveless! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!Maybe more bluegrass than Country with really good acoustic instruments, try Alison Krause and Union Station "LIVE" which is a SACD/CD Hybrid or "A New Favorite.""Mountain Soul" by Patty Loveles... | |
| Caliper Signature vs Duetta Signature? I know you are selling your Calipers, but the photos look like you did not biwire them (unless those are shotgunned wires). Biwiring the Calipers really makes them open up. Also, the Caliper and Duetta Signatures have a plastic screen over the bas... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts How about Aerosmith 1971 at a free-admission outdoor dance at Mills College in Oakland and the Doobie Brothers playing the Freshman Dance at UC Berkeley in 1971? | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 1. Daily Driver is a Mercedes C240 wagon. 20mpg, adequate accelleration, the best overall engineering in the industry(see next paragraph), and quite comfortable too.2. Next car? Probably another Mercedes. After surviving a head-on collision at 60M... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts 1. The Who at the Fillmore West 1969! $3 admission fee! Inspired me to "pick up my guitar and Play!" 2. The Who at the SF Civic Center in 1971. 3. The Grateful Dead at Oakland Collosium in 1976 4. The Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore West 1969. ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Best Sound I heard at CES 2004 was a French Speaker called PRAM. Horn-loaded mid/tweeter crossed over to 2(12) woofers in D'appollito configuration. Front end was all Jadis, the CD player, JPL line preamp and JA-80 monoblocks. Lovely, super seduct... | |
| Anyone in Vegas listen to the Gilmore speakers??? My wife and I heard the larger model displayed at the St Tropez. To me they did sound pretty good. They certainly go loud without compressing and at the distance we listened, they were coherent enough, and the truth of timbre was pretty good too, ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Gershman Acoustics Opera Sauvage. At 2003 CES my wife and I heard the most incredible sound coming out of a little room at Alexis Park. It was the Opera Sauvage powered by Kora electronics playing Scherezade cut off the Burmester demo CD. It was t... |