limomangus

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It's time for a good CD player.
Anytime you buy used to take a great chance of a break down usually with in a year. 
Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player?
Buying used you do have a good chance the equipment will break down .Take it from some who knows this FIRST HAND.LOL 
Do You Remember Your First Time?Is It As Good As You Dreamed?
I was a kind and my Uncle Sonny to me to a neighbors house Harry.This was the early 60s.He had a RtR and Received I think a Fisher and Speakers.He played Dixie land stuff .I never heard music like that I never saw a separate stero equipment. My st... 
Advantages of owning equipment from major audio brands vs. boutique shops?
I usually by audio equipment went the old model is going out and new stuff coming in....the older stuff is now helluva lot cheaper now....I call it a win. 
How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to?
I used to own 1100 sold them for $1,700 all VG -VG +,Now I have about 1,000 most in VG + to Near Mint,2500 cds about 50 box sets ,plus 500 cassettes, Some RtR prerecorded and blank. 
Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes
Doors any album,Led Zepplin II,Sound track from GiGi,Bruce Springsteen Born to Run,Cream Fresh Cream,Marvin Gaye Solitaire Man,Four Season 2ndGolden Vault. Beatles White Album,Stones let it bleed. 
Pssst . . . . best New Album Perhaps of the Decade
I think I have forgotten them already.... 
What DECADE in the last 80 years had the BEST
The 1970s Definitely Audio Equipment started to floor our shores .Good Equipment Pioneer, Sony,Kenwood, Sansui, a few of many that sold great equipment. That you can still find working today. 
I have been using the Cambridge 851 CD player for a few years and want more.
Great CD player. 
SONY TRINITRON ON 11 YEARS
Yes Sony TVs were the only way to go.$400 For a 19" when today you can get a 45" on Sale for the same price...lol 
In the last 20-30 years, what has changed most...
Well are Flat Screen TVs included because what has happen there is Unbelievable .The quality of the picture and the size you can have in your home and the price .While audio equipment has gone thru the Roof...Flat Screens have Dropped to Crazy Pri... 
Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago
The funny thing I fell is there are still speakers for sale from 2001 .I bought a pair of Polk lsim707  which where listed at $3,995.i bought them 2 years ago for $1,200.They were returns one had scratch on back the other was missing a speaker scr... 
used Sonus Faber repair (again)
Oh no !  
You can go home again
Interesting, I think you remember all experiences don't  you good and bad.Like a good concert were the band clicked...or hopefully the engineer was paying attention and  not stoned out. Is it the speaker or the music playing ,that makes us make up... 
Adding a Turntable Mat
As some one said try both of the ways.i have I my old Technics tt and haven't noticed any big difference.