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| Squuezebox 3 and iTunes library playlist There's a review of the Squeezebox 3 in the current issue (No. 76) of UHF Magazine. They tested it with music streaming from their iTunes collection on a Mac computer. I don't think that the review mentioned playlists specifically, but they did no... | |
| need advice on refinishing speakers. Do's & Don'ts I haven't refinished speakers, but I do the occasional piece of furniture.Treat it like an antique. Don't take a power sander to it. You'll cut through the veneer pretty quickly with a power tool.Start off with a chemical stripper. You will need t... | |
| Are some of us cultish in our beliefs I worship at the Church of Linn. My only heresy is to replace the speaker connectors on the K400 cable with locking WBT angled bananas. For that, I will burn in Linn purgatory, which has a Bose system constantly playing in order to torment the unf... | |
| Help First Audiophile system Given that you have a computer with a big hard drive and lots of iTunes, your suggestion of using your computer as a source is a good thought. For only a couple hundred you can buy a Squeezebox and, along with your computer, you've got a pretty go... | |
| Aktiv Cards for Ninka Well since you asked, here are a few random thoughts.First of all, run the Ninkas passively biamped with your 2250 and LK 280, just to hear what it sounds like to passively biamp. After you've played with this for a while, sell the LK 1 and LK 280... | |
| Aktiv Cards for Ninka Almaro:There is no reason why you cannot use the 2250 and the LK 280 together, at least if you use the unbalanced connections on the back of the 2250. Because Linn encourage upgrading through multi-amplification, they make it easier by matching th... | |
| Canadian Musicians Go to http://www.canehdian.comThis site contains a list of Canadian artists. The links on the left of the home page provide a break down by genre. The site has some glaring omissions, for example, Ian Tyson isn't there, but there's enough there to... | |
| Canadian Musicians JTThere are a lot of good suggestions from other posters, although they are quite diverse in terms of style. I'm not quite sure how wide you're casting your net in terms of musical genres. What caught my eye was your comment about having been in N... | |
| Matching the center channel to the fronts Javachip said:"That said, I am not so sure about the idea of watching a movie in "phantom center" mode with no center channel speaker. Around 80% of the soundtrack (especially the dialog) is directed to the center channel speaker. Having that spea... | |
| Matching the center channel to the fronts If you have your front speakers set up properly, you really wouldn't need a centre channel at all. The stereo imaging would place the people and their voices where they should be.If you do eliminate the centre speaker though, you will have to tell... | |
| How do I know what my system's Your system looks pretty good to me. Nothing jumps out as being obviously inferior or mismatched.Since you asked for advice, mine would be to identify what you don't like and then use that as a starting point to focus in on where an improvement mi... | |
| Aktiv Cards for Ninka The first thing you need is another amp. The 2250 is a two channel amp. You need four channels of amplification for active biamplification of Ninkas (or six channels for active triamplification).The second thing you will need are stereo Aktiv card... | |
| Lehman Black Cube or Grado PH-1 Preamp I think that the Lehman is the far better of the two, particularly if you get the PWX upgraded power supply.If you want something a little less expensive, I would recommend a Rega Fono, which is available in MM or MC versions, or a Goldring PA-100... | |
| Dual Subwoofer Question I don't think it's a good idea. It's definitely something you would want to audition before putting any money down. However, I'm not optimistic.If it was strictly for HT effects like bombs blasting or car crashes, you could probably get away with ... | |
| Amp vs. preamp I subscribe to the "garbage in, garbage out" school of thought with respect to upgrading. Start at the front and then work your way down the chain: source, preamp, amp, speakers in that order. Good downstream equipment cannot add what is lost upst... |