mr_hosehead
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| Eagles Concert Guitar Player Apparently there are still two sides to everything? The interview I read last year had Felder suing Fry & Henley over royalties he claimed he was due - the numbers were in the upper six-figure range. It was supposedly not a case of getting "fi... | |
| Test CD for positioning speakers and subwoofer Ditto on the Rives CD - grand shtuff. Though it does become a love/hate thing, you know? I'd gone through some other discs & done the (trivial, in retrospect) calibration to the RS meter by hand, etc. Then I broke down and got Rives and got a ... | |
| best used amp around $2000 for B&W N802s There are a couple of pairs of Odyssey Stratos Extreme Monoblocks in classifieds here right now. Both are asking around $2,000. Don't know if you've ever auditioned Odyssey, but those would give you ~300W per channel of class A/AB goodness. Worth ... | |
| Speaker Wire for a non-anal listener Spades or bananas? I used to be spades, now bananas. I'd originally been talked into spades being the better connection, but further research kinda blurs all that? Good bananas work well, are convenient, etc. Wire? Practically everything will be O... | |
| Changing amps? Hmmmm - by "a set of JM Lab 906 speakers" do you mean a pair of 906s or an HT setup (of more than 2, as in 5 or 7)? If you just do stereo w/ a pair that would make a bit of a difference in which way to try (at least to me).One of the things to may... | |
| biggest difference...speaker cable or IC's? Unless your current cables are somehow pretty deficient I don't know that you'll hear much real difference. For starters, I'll cast another vote for leaving the balanced ICs as-is - unless they're actually coathangers you're unlikely to find signi... | |
| Paradigm Signature S-2, S-4:Good, bad, indifferent S2, S4 good.I stumbled onto a listen last year - had gone to my favorite audioholics emporium looking for something else. They said "come on downstairs and give a listen", and I wound up grinning ear to ear. I'd kinda thought the Sig series was a ... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? "Cryo treatments absolutely do great things sonically for many (not all) audio pieces (results based on double blind studies)."Now this is what I'm looking for! As I've said, I don't do the cryo 'cause I haven't been able to find any real publishe... | |
| 2 way vs 3 way / Monitors vs. Floorstanding C123666 - well, whaddya know! I'm pretty much USDA-certified Clueless and didn't know anything about the Omega Grande 6 or 8's. I'll certainly keep an open mind on these things, 'cause I've never heard 'em (doh! if I'd never heard about 'em I cert... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Anuice. Now there's one reason to cryo... | |
| Delima Uh... what're you using for that center speaker? Just going by everything you can read here & elsewhere, getting the best match between the center & your soon-to-be new mains is kinda important. If there's a natural match from that manufac... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Sorry, Newbee - apparently someone got up on the wrong side of the bed today? I read your post and didn't find anything all that inflamatory in there...I also read quite a bit of the CryogenicsInternational stuff. I found it mildly interesting, no... | |
| 2 way vs 3 way / Monitors vs. Floorstanding The comments on speaker and room matching are really important. Only problem is that there are also no givens there, mostly because there's so much overlap in what you can get in bookshelf and floor systems. You can do your research and all but in... | |
| Where is Your Turntable? Mine came out of the closet... Honest!Well, at least it's back into the system. Many years ago a TT was the centerpiece and reasonably well contained in a home-brew contraption. Then came the grunions - you know, rug rats. The whole system (except... | |
| Is SACD a dead format? Dead as a doornail, practically/unfortunately. Thanks to Sony, et. al. (yeah, they had lots of help) it's almost all over but the shouting. They just haven't announced the time of the wake...The first thing to remember is that it's a business - it... |