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Acoustical wall panels
Slipknot1What level of rives did you go with? The Quest panels you have look nice, they seem to blend in with the ceiling very well....I found a place called acoustical solutions and they are also out of Richmond VA and there products look simular... 
Acoustical wall panels
Slipknot1 Thanks for the info, how did you secure the panels to the ceiling? 
Power cords for Martin Logan speakers??
What worked best for my Logans was them being pluged into a PS Audio Ultimate Outlet with Prelude PC.You can pick a Standard U/O up for around $200 plus a pair of Prelude PC for around $75 each and have a few bucks left! I beleive the U/O made mor... 
Need clean Power.
If you choose no power conditioner, if in buget then have electrician run two dedicated 20 amp lines for amps, then two more 20 amp lines one each for digital and the last one for analog. You will be future proof then when buget allows pick up pow... 
Tyler Acoustics & Quad
I picked up a pair of Ref III with the Scanspeak tweeter and they sound great, very smooth and detailed.I also am trying out some Silver speaker wire and liking them alot. Ty uses silver jumpers to connect the upper and lower speakers. As said abo... 
Besides Audio, what other ''passion'' do you have?
I'm a crew member of a race team and we race late model chevy on a 1/2 mile circle track every sat night.Also have five muscle cars that we show. The wife is into this which makes it more of a family thing!So pretty much audio and racing cars is o... 
Power cable suggestion for Classe CA300
If you don't have a dedicated line for your Classe amp I would consider that first before a power cord upgrade. 
Dealing with transformer hum
Go to the psaudio web site as they have a interesting product just for hum, it's called the humbuster. Also lots of info on the subject! 
Classe DR-25 worth buying?
What Rjhella said, I have upgraded most all my components but when I get to my amps (pair of 25) I seem to hang on to these. I have used these to drive Martin Logans and the 25 does it flawlessly. The rated power is what Classe says it is and yes ... 
XM vs. Sirius
Jsonic, Goodguys, Circuit City and Best Buy are all places that can help you out first hand. I paid about $100 each for my pioneers and at the time they were having a $50 installation but choose to install them myself as they were easy to do. Iv'e... 
XM vs. Sirius
I went with XM instead of Sirius because of hardware not software. I went with the seperate unit and not a complete head unit as the Pioneers take up very little space. Both XM and Sirius are equal in sound qaulity and there formats are very close... 
Great Customer Service
Sonic Frontiers has my vote!I had a problem with my SFP-1 signature phono stage as it was going into mute when in opperation so I sent unit to SF and they found the problem with some solder joints and caps, they fixed and shipped back to me at no ... 
WAF, Help, Need Strategy
Buy her the biggest diamond ring you can find, works everytime!! 
I have a confession to make
Shasta, My wife says I have that Obssesive-compulsive thing you talk about, you know I think I do! I think as to any hobby we all have this to a certain degree that's why I buying lotso music and not equipment as it's a hole lot cheaper than equpm... 
I have a confession to make
Scottht, Remember there are two parts to this hobbie, the equipment and the music! Don't get caught up in the FLAVOR of the month as it's for shure a dead end. Last month I thought I needed a new pair of speakers so I went and heard many different...