mhconley
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| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps I have a penchant for female singers Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Kate Bush, Alison Krauss, Amy Lee, Hayley Williams, Sara Watkins, Terri Nunn, Enya, Susanna Hoffs, Sarah Brightman and many others. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 1. 2008 Ford Mustang GT convertible2. Either number 1 above or a 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 convertible3. I have a list...:) Porsche 911 Turbo (anthracite/black) Ferrari 612 Scaglietti (red/tan) Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 (yellow/black) Shelby CSX ... | |
| Anyone else in my shoes? Ears going......... I just turned 50 and have slight high frequency hearing loss in one ear. I also have a never ending extremely high pitched squeal (tinnitus) in both ears that is louder in the one with some hearing loss. I have suffered from earaches my entire lif... | |
| Killing BluRay, new Oppo BR 83 Adding to the OP's pessimism about the lifespan of Blu-ray (which I share, just for different reasons):Do you think they'll stop at 1080p?2160p / qHD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2160p4320p / Super Hi-Vision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4320pThe... | |
| How close was your starting budget to the final bu I missed this thread was in the home theater forum. My budget for that was blown when we moved four years ago and I bought a $4500 50" Pioneer plasma to replace a perfectly good $2000 36" Sony XBR4 CRT HDTV (that I now can't seem to give away). | |
| Killing BluRay, new Oppo BR 83 Wired broadband will go the way of the spinning disc as G4 and later solutions come on line. Again - why spend the money to lay copper - then fiber-optic - when the same and higher speeds are coming wirelessly. Any carrier implementing by the byte... | |
| FFYX Turntables from China Wow! I have never heard of the brand nor seen the ads until I found your post. Looks very interesting. Worth a shot at those price points.I puchased a Chinese TT (Opera Consonance LP-2.0) a while back for about the same price and I could not be ha... | |
| How close was your starting budget to the final bu Amen to the comment about Audiogon - my $14.7k (list) stereo cost me $7.7k and most of my electronics were demo units from authorized retailers or new and highly discounted. I could never have afforded my system at list prices.And as for the OP's ... | |
| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? I have only ever owned one "CD player". I have been a vinyl junkie all along and resisted the move when CDs first hit the market.My first disc player that would play CDs was a Sony MDP-333 Laserdisc / CD player. I replaced it with a Pioneer DVL-91... | |
| different Panasonic Plasma's I find the differences are bells and whistles one normally would not use. I would go with the least expensive 1080p Panasonic plasma you can find. And if you dont need a tuner a monitor is perfect. LCD has nowhere near the picture quality of Plas... | |
| Killing BluRay, new Oppo BR 83 I agree with the original poster's comments on Blu-ray being a short term format but disagree with at least one of the listed reasons.#1 - Picture quality - The difference on my system, while not as great as VHS to DVD is huge. Are you watching Bl... | |
| Paradigm Studio 100 v.3 vs, v.4 I agree with most the comments here, especially those concerning the differences between the 40's, 60's and 100's. When I was originally putting together a two-channel/home theater system I auditioned the 60's and really wanted to go that directio... | |
| Good and bad w/ replacing stock preamp jumpers? I own a Parasound Halo based 2-channel system, a P 3 preamplifier, A 21 amplifier and D 3 universal disc player driving Paradigm Reference Studio 100 v.4 speakers. I recently upgraded interconnect cables from 1.0m BetterCables.com Silver Serpent I... | |
| Parasound volume level question Rick,I like the VST III very much. Very detailed. It had great reviews when new. Very close to the V15 at a much more reasonable price, at least when your talking $850 total for table, arm and cartridge.All,After more time with the system I have f... | |
| Parasound volume level question I have the gain control on the amp set full on to the THX reference level as Parasound recommends. They were kind enough to also answer my question - here is their reply:"The P 3 is designed not to clip an audio signal, and advancing the volume co... |