kthomas
Responses from kthomas
| Check out www.yourmusic.com YourMusic appears to be BMG / Columbia music clubs rebranded - same look and feel, same selection. I've been a member of BMG for a long time and have always found plenty to buy off the site, so YourMusic would suit me well. They're not comprehensi... | |
| Great sounding close to back wall speakers. The older NHT's were designed to go up against the back wall - the 3.3's and 2.9's. They're a big, somewhat uniquely shaped speaker, but even so only extend into the room so far, certainly not further than most speakers when set out in front of th... | |
| Vandersteen 5A's in Home Theater If you're using standard 5.1 or 7.1 decoding, you will lose the .1 part if you don't have a dedicated sub. Any decent processor will allow you to route the .1 to the mains if you like, but that's their processing then, rather than specifically wha... | |
| The best audiophile "gag" gift for X-Mas Did you just waste the last 8 upgrades? If not, how did they go. Maybe the Intelligent Chip needed burn-in. | |
| Building a Music Server. Assuming you're just building this for home use (not for some industrial-strength server setting), putting together a music server easily and cheaply shouldn't be a problem. Maybe I don't worry enough, but as long as the processor I bought ran in ... | |
| Dynaudio C2 versus S5.4 ? I can't comment on the 5.4's, having not heard them, so I can't really answer your question. However, I do own the C2's and I highly endorse them. I'll admit to being a big Dyn fan, so I didn't listen to a lot of other speakers in the same price r... | |
| Amp. for Dynaudio C-2 I have very different listening patterns (mostly rock, blues and jazz), but I recently bought the W-10's to go with my C2's and it is fantastic! I use the MIT Magnum M1 speaker cables. I can't speak highly enough of this combination - my only regr... | |
| Anyone spend more on their system than their car? About the same if you just add up the retail prices, but I got the system at a deeper discount to retail than I did the car. I'm much more likely to "downsize" the car than the system at this point, though. | |
| Hard Drive based system Absolutely. And even if it was slightly less good sounding, the benefit of having all of your music at your fingertips, under easy control, will outweigh anything you give up. But I don't think you'll give anything up if you set it up correctly. | |
| Dual Disc Problems? Isn't "Dual Disc" and "Problem" redundant? Who asked for these things? The more the music industry "progresses", the more I wonder about it all - failed audiophile formats, suing customers, bringing out "CDs" that don't adhere to the redbook stand... | |
| Doug Henning disappearing act I just assume nobody is a buyer until we've exchanged a series of emails culminating in me writing, "Please confirm the deal with the following terms...." Then, if I were to not hear from the prospective buyer for more than 24 hours, I would send ... | |
| Need help to buy a subwoofer? I'm biased - I own the Velodyne DD-15 - but I'd go for the Velodyne. They're good looking, very adjustable, and lightning quick. That said, all I can vouch for is that I like the Velodyne - I've never heard the others on your list. -Kirk | |
| big bucks on dvd player worth it?? Definitely wait. I don't think you gain much of anything for HT now. Even the HT mags don't review DVD players anymore because the differences are so small, even from cheap to expensive. In a couple years, you can buy a HD DVD player and a TV that... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Pat - I haven't contributed to this thread, but have read it occassionally and have been on Audiogon for many years now. Nobody knows how they will face up to the inevitability that awaits us all, but I think we all hope we can face it with as mu... | |
| Amp for Dynaudio 1.3SE Use Krell FPB-200c's go pretty cheap these days and are a nice match for the Dyn's. |