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| Quad 12L2s vs Totem Rainmaker monitors Totem Rainmakers are lively and all about spatial cues - terrific sound stage. They have a decent frequency range for a stand mount and a terrific build and fit and finish for the money.Quads are smooth and natural sounding. Their experience and e... | |
| Best Cold Weather & Bloody Knuckles Integrated Amp Try something digital, say an Onkyo WRAT receiver or integrated. May be more resistant to temp swings and humidity than tubes or traditional solid state. Sound decent too for the money. One of their recent 6XX HT amps could be purchased used for 2... | |
| Brubeck's "Time Out" Kitjv,OK, it must be out of print. Did you go to the Amazon link in my post above? There are seven used copies available at Amazon right now. | |
| Ortofon Super OM10 or Sumiko Pearl cartridge? In addition to the Sumiko Pearl, I would suggest any of these cartridges in the $100 price range: Shure M97XE, Ortofon 2M Red, Grado Blue Prestige, or Stanton EEE Mk III. I recently purchased the Grado Blue and find it a clear step up from the Bla... | |
| Brubeck's "Time Out" I own the remastered Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD which is one of the very best produced CDs in my collection. It may no longer be available new, but there are several copies available used on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000ED... | |
| What happened to Discwasher? Discwasher lives in 2008(http://www.needledoctor.com/Discwasher-D4-Kit). But the Discwasher D4+ cleaning fluid formula is VERY different from the D4 fluid I used many years ago. The original D4 used to bead up on the brush, and had little or no od... | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Neither Clapton or Green. This is probably heresy, but I think the best blues guitar playing I have heard in the last ten years has got to be John Mayer on Clapton's Guitar Festival DVD. OMG!!! I don't know who or what he was channeling at that mo... | |
| Integrated for Vienna Acoustics Haydn A friend has larger Vienna's running with a Primare amplifier and it sounds great. The amps look pretty cool too. | |
| What's Toshiba replacing the Toshiba HD XA2 with? Cytocycle,I will cede you the point about which format was better and when. As I said before, I have no horse in the race. My main points were and still are:1. Now that Sony has won, they will do some algebra on the price to volume balance for sel... | |
| I was driving my wife's new 2008 Acura RDX I also heard that Koni shocks beat the Hell out of Bilsteins for controlling vibration induced distortion. Some people say that low air pressure helps, but I say you need a tight connection with the road... | |
| What's Toshiba replacing the Toshiba HD XA2 with? Cytocycle,I had no dog in this hunt, but you are sounding a sour note. Prices will fall when all companies, including Toshiba, come to market with their own BluRay players and the format becomes a commodity just like SD DVD players are now, e.g. a... | |
| I was driving my wife's new 2008 Acura RDX All good suggestions... no, really.Have to agree with Drubin though, the system may not have settled in yet. Try leaving the radio running at a healthy volume on several successive weekend or other days that you are around the house but not using ... | |
| Best recordings to demonstrate soundstage? Richard Thompson - Grizzly Man (soundtrack from the motion picture) | |
| matching the Arros I think many dealers would be OK with that, especially if you did it on a weekday when things were slow. You would be better off to try the amp in your listening room with your other gear. Also easier and safer to transport one metal amp than 2 wo... | |
| The rout is on for Blu-Ray How will prices for REAL DVD Player VALUE in the market rise? HD-DVD player prices have been artificially low as Toshiba tried to dump players and flood the market in one last desperate attempt to build interest in their format and clear inventori... |