mezmo
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| Best Speakers at Stereophile show Just to add to the list of remarkeable sounding stuff at the show, I was very impressed (and surprised) by the Red Rose monitors (their R-3?). They were running off of the Red Rose tube amp and a Sony (I assume the SACD) player. Some of the best s... | |
| Uh oh.... Interesting. The AT&T folks had a listening room set up at the HiFi show here in NYC last weekend where, I assume, they were demonstrating exactly the new technology in question. I spent about five minutes in there, didn't manage to get a dece... | |
| What to do with your tax return? Yea, I was all excited to purchase a new Loewe TV when, the week before April 16, it became apparent that I OWED Uncle Sam (and the lovely State of New York) a distressing amount of my hard-earned duckets. I was genuinely cross. Looks like me and ... | |
| Unusual Music Recommendation Ok, last one. I got it wrong. It's www.hogwaller.com (not plural...) | |
| Unusual Music Recommendation Ok, I'm sorry, I'm not done yet. The Hogwaller Ramblers have listenable samples after all, and their cite is really pretty damn funny. While I'm clogging bandwidth, check them out, too. www.hogwallers.com These guys do a high-energy bluegrass/funk... | |
| Unusual Music Recommendation Drat, got all excited and forgot to include the address. Clever. www.danny.schmidt.net There are a whole bunch of others that have my unflagging loyalty, the Hogwaller Ramblers and Brady Earnheart for a start, but they don't seem to have listenabl... | |
| Unusual Music Recommendation Since this thread began with a tip-o-the-hat to the biggun' from the Charlottesville scene (Dave Matthews, who can still be found drinkin' near every Monday night at a certain downtown bar) I can't resist mentioning another of the C-Ville bunch th... | |
| Replace 35" TV with something bigger Have a look at the new Loewe Aconda that is scheduled to hit U.S. stores some time in May. It's gonna be the big brother of their 30" Aconda and clock in at 38" (both 16:9 aspect ratio screens). The 30" Aconda has the single best picture I've ever... | |
| Stereo preamp for HT bypass I'm using a VTL TL 2.5 preamp and have a Marantz SR 7000 receiver doing the processing and running the center and surrounds (with the mains run from the preouts on the Marantz to the processor loop on the VTL for HT). All things considered, a pret... | |
| Thiel 2.3 VS Meadowlark Shearwater HR ThatÂ’s a tough call. Both are, in my opinion, great speakers. In the end, they ended up being the two I was trying to choose between. I got the Thiels, so I guess the best I can do is try to explain why. The Meadowlarks really do love tubes. They ... | |
| Biamp w/2 Bryston4BST s or 1 14BSTw/B W? By all accounts, a pair of 7b-st's is a better option than a pair of bridged 4b-st's (if, for no other reason, the fact that the 7's are single purpose monoblocks and the 4's are designed as stereo amps that can pull double-duty as monoblocks mean... | |
| Please Help: High-End car audio Speaking of Lexus, they've got a new one out that has a 100% Levinson sound system. The Levinson folk were on board from the early design stages of the car and have even included specially treated seats and such for their acoustic properties. By a... | |
| bananas or spades? I'll tell you what, though, spades are a pain in the butt. Although I would agree wholeheartedly with all of the above comments, I sometimes find myself longing for the convenience of bananna plugs nonetheless. However, being that I've got speaker... | |
| Any mid-priced Receivers Worthwhile??? I would definitely keep ahold of the two channel stuff for the stereo listening and then get a midrange receiver for the HT. I recently did just that. For a while I anguished over getting good HT separates (had narrowed it down to either the Lexic... | |
| DVD s reading CD-R s and CD-RW s I have been told that it is an issue of DVD's being more "shiny" and therefore requiring a weaker (or somehow different) laser to read them. CDR's and CDRW's are a lot less shiny (just have a look) and, therefore, the DVD-grade lasers often have t... |