nrchy
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| How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt???? Realize your system is never going to sound like live music so what is the point of chasing diminishing returns when you can decide 'for free' that you are going to be content with what you have and enjoy it. Remember , most of the people in the w... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? I can share my experience, but I can't verify anything with measurements.I was a longtime subcriber to Stereophile till about ten years ago. I did not cancel because of the number of ultra-highend reviews, but because of all the discussion about p... | |
| Done and did it again Roofing cement is a good idea which I had not considered, but it really isn't very hard to replace a driver. This might be a fairly inexpensive repair too. I don't know if the cement will alter the drivers ability to travel.Regardless of which of ... | |
| Where to put the better cable. You will end up with them where they sound the best, but if the question were asked, and the results could never be altered I would agree with Elizabeth. Always get the most signal off of your source. No great piece of gear will add what wasn't ob... | |
| Your Holiday/Christmas Favorite Recordings I don't have the patience to write a tome, like some of the previous posters, but here is my short list.1) Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas2) Contemporary Christian Christmas. Margaret Becker's "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" is fantastic. Very well record... | |
| best power conditioner for less than 500 buckagroo You can occasionally find a Tice Powerblock in that range. They are not a good as the latest and greatest highend offerings, but for $500 they are a steal. | |
| Just how good is the Vandersteen 5A? on a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a "B" | |
| MFSL Queen ok or not ? The faults you mentioned are typical of MFSL regardless of the title. You will find the Queen LP just as botched as the others. Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player! | |
| Audio Transport 2004 It is amazing that manufacturers can continue to justify the escalating cost of old technology. Redbook transports should be great at this point in time, and prices should be plummeting, yet in many cases the opposite is true.I can see SACD, and D... | |
| Phono and line stage Pren, not to bore you with useless information, but the reason a pre-amp has an input designated as "Phono" is because a Turntable requires a differnt type of amplification than other sources.Record companies began employing a type of equalization... | |
| Essay bashing Primedia, Stereophile - and Audiogon We are all idiots because we didn't go running to Chip Stern to learn all there is to know about audiophilia. How could we have the nerve to involve ourself in this little inbreeding experiment put on by Arnie. Oh the mockery of drinking at anothe... | |
| Help me to tame brightness What are the walls made of, poured concrete, or sheetrock, or paneling? What is the ceiling material. My intial response would be to deal with the room since that is typically the biggest source of problems. Companies do not design equipment to be... | |
| Album which you have listened to most? A quadophile should have asked for four LPs, not three! | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel Matralla, that was a very good post! It brought to mind many things I had used in a paper I wrote in college back in the 80's about the CD format and why it was inferior to analog.I also remembered the LSB (least significant bit) and MSB (most sig... | |
| Mastercard There isn't a system out there as valuable as a good wife! I'll keep both the wife and my system, in that order too.We're trying to keep the costs down this year so my wife suggested getting eachother a digital camera. She doesn't ask for much so ... |