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| Paradigm Speakers The Signature S4 is a sublime speaker and if you ever want to upgrade any other equipment, you can keep these and upgrade arournd them. The Studio 60 is a great speaker as well.Ideally if you could find the very hard to find Paradigm Active 40's (... | |
| looking for speakers Gallo 3.1's, Magnepan 1.6qr's, Paradigm Reference S8 | |
| Tube preamp and McCormack DNA-500 Cary SLP98 has 2 sets of preouts. Great preamp too. | |
| Divorcing..Splitting the cd collection.. I am sure you have a computer, buy a large external hard drive and download iTunes from Apple.com (free).use a search engine to learn how to path your iTunes library to the hard drive (v easy actually, so don't sweat it), set your iTunes to rip al... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? lol, don't know how that happened? Sorry. | |
| Where are you buying new vinyl? Wow, there is something worth visiting Dallas for now.Time to fire up the hot rod and head up I-45, for the 2 1/2 hour ride from Houston. | |
| any early 80's alt/soft punk fans out there? "Doooooooooon't Channnnnnnnnnge a thing, .......for me"Great albums all. I think I will try and clean my 27 yr old version of Shabooh Shabah right now, great idea.Wish me luck. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Another thread made me think of the Beatles, it's theme night now:The Beatles Please Please Me A Hard Day's Night Rubber Soul Help Sgt Peppers The White Album Let It Be Abbey Road | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Another thread made me think of the Beatles, it's theme night now:The Beatles Please Please Me A Hard Day's Night Rubber Soul Help Sgt Peppers The White Album Let It Be Abbey Road | |
| Where are you buying new vinyl? Houston has a great vinyl store for new vinyl; Cactus Records on Shepard, and I just found one around the corner that I had never seen Black Dog Records, that has been there for 20+ yrs. They have new vinyl, but specialize in great copies of old v... | |
| any early 80's alt/soft punk fans out there? I forgot Missing Persons, I saw when I was home from college in 1984 at some hotel ballroom in downtown Chicago. They were actually v good. It was a good summer for concerts in Chicago, I saw INXS at Caberet Metro, and Voilent Femmes there as well... | |
| THIN LIZZY best album? I wonder if you will ever be able to get Badfinger Re-issues? I can't find any halfway decent vinyl copies anywhere. | |
| DAC advice I have a Bryston BDA-1 after trying many others (Berkley, BelCanto, MHDT Labs (v good), Tube Audio Design PreDac, Benchmark USB.....) and it has been the best by far. | |
| Hi-Fi Power Conditioner ? I have an APC S-15 which also has battery backup and it's truly amazing. I have terrible power from the grid, lot's of surges, brown outs and fluctuations in power and this really levels everything out. It made a much bigger difference than anythi... | |
| Cary SLP 98L or deHavillanrd Mercury 3? I love the Cary I have (SLP98P F-1 version), but if you have $5k to spend you can probably move up and buy a used Cary SLP 05 which is maybe the best preamp I have heard regardless of price. |