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| The gift of music to our children Audiophile style "Now I'm plotting how to create the world's first Todd Rundgren/Lindsey Buckingham obsessed 3 year old."Go the proven Billy Ray Cyrus route.Get them a show on Disney Channel as wisecracking parents of Selena Gomez, Demi Lovado, Miley Cyrus and oth... | |
| How is your power bill? "First, there will be a Ohm "Speaker of the House", in honor of Mapman"Very thoughtful, but please, take care of ManBearPig first! | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll Gotta love Lemmy! | |
| CD drive improves HD rip quality? The Pioneer drive in my Toshiba Satellite Laptop seems to do an excellent job.I think the main thing is that the drive be designed to rescan segments on lower quality or physically marred disks. The Pioneer normally rips a 3:00 cut to Windows loss... | |
| Best "Green River" Available on Vinyl? Hmm. Not sure if there is vinyl for this title. It was released back in the 90's during the great vinyl depression.I was referring to the standard issue CD.I wouldn't worry too much about vinyl for this one. The CD can be had for not much and is a... | |
| Loudspeakers with a wide sweet spot "Omni's will also work if you can pull them far enough out into the room so that rear wall reflections do not have any deleterious imaging effects."Good point. This is key! Blue Circle Pennies are supposedly designed to go closer to walls. OHM Wal... | |
| Loudspeakers with a wide sweet spot "In general achieving a wide sweet spot I find comes at the price of imaging and detail"Hmm, I'm not sure that is necessarily the case.I do agree about planar designs though, Maggies for example. The sweet spot is very small.Better omnis I've hear... | |
| Best "Green River" Available on Vinyl? Whoops, Audiofeil is right. I got my Moons confused. | |
| Advice on speakers? There was a pair of OHM Walsh 5 series 3 speakers ($6000 new) advertised recently here for $3200. Assuming that deal is all kosher as advertised, you could hardly do better at most any price than those IMHO. An amp change/upgrade would probably be... | |
| Loudspeakers with a wide sweet spot Any OHM Walsh speaker (largely omnidirectional).Also Gallo Ref. 3s.Blue Circle Pennies also. These are designed to go closer to walls.Also some Dueval, Morrisons and a few other lower priced omnis. | |
| The gift of music to our children Audiophile style Weiser,Congrats on your son's choice of study!We think alike (I think).My kids are younger. Both like music, my 13 year old boy classic Rock and my younger girl Hannah Montana, Beatles, and Abba. I showed here how to play "Honey Honey" by Abba on ... | |
| Best "Green River" Available on Vinyl? BTW, for really really well recorded and very good Creedance-like stuff, try John Fogerty's more recent recordings. I can vouch for the fact that "Full Moon Swamp" sounds about as good as anything in its genre and this is Fogerty at his best....he... | |
| managable and affordable indoor FM antenna Unless you can go with an outdoor directional antenna and rotor, stick with the dipole.I have a Godar and no longer use it. It is unobtrusive in some setups and serviceable on some tuners but utterly fails on others, depending on the tuning system... | |
| Best "Green River" Available on Vinyl? Jaybo and Stickman said it. | |
| Emerald Physics C2 or Usher BE-718 Ushers are nice but fairly conventional in design and sound in comparison to many other makes.I'd love to hear Emerald Physics. New, innovative approaches to design can have huge upside when done well. |