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| Safe and Sound (safeandsoundhq.com) Just want to chime in with another thumbs-up for Safe and Sound Audio in Chicopee, MA! I purchased a CD player from them years ago. I still use it and am still very pleased with its performance. Whenever I am in the market for a new toy, I defi... | |
| Speaker Road Trip Dadork, I understand the angst all too well, having recently completed a many months quest to replace a beloved pair of Paradigm. However, my longest road trip was only 2 hours; nothing compared to what you and your family endured. God bless them ... | |
| Speaker Road Trip Huh? You "drove from the very tip of the mitt in Michigan to Nashville."? I admire the zeal and dedication but wouldn't Music Direct in Chicago have been less of a haul?. They probably wouldn't have everything you're interested in, unless they ha... | |
| And My Budget Is... Chayro, I like your style! Last time I went shopping for speakers I set my budget at $2,000. Nothing I listened to made me think it was any better or that much better than my old 20 year old Paradigm Monitor 9 (the originals). So, I started lis... | |
| Before I order the Magnepan 1.7s... Certainly don't want to rain on your parade but have you heard the maggies or any other electrostatic design speakers? Some like 'em; some don't. Of course, the same can be said for virtually any speaker.Personally, with regard to speakers, I do... | |
| HiFi Furniture WOW! Just checked out those SGR racks. They're beautiful! Also, mucho dinero! Not what KUNALRAIKER has in mind. | |
| HiFi Furniture Enjoyed the comedic banter about what folks used in college and thought I'd add this for fun. For the longest time, I used cinder blocks & boards (e.g. 1.5" X 12" X 36" joined solid wood like long butcher blocks) with foam padding between them... | |
| Best Sounding Speaker Cables? Ghdprentice, you "(SCANNED) the article"? Ordinarily, I'd say try reading EVERYTHING and reading it THOROUGHLY and for comprehension before proffering an opinion. Then again, your mind is obviously too closed for that, made up and already knows ev... | |
| Best Sounding Speaker Cables? Ghdprentice, did you read ALL the articles in ALL the links available? If I remember correctly, Shunyata, AudioQuest, QED and, possibly, other speaker cables were used in the testing & measurements articles via the many links. I wouldn't call ... | |
| Best Preamp and Amp combination, interesting finding!!! Rbstehno, I did say I was making a "general" observation. I couldn't be less interested in who or what's right or wrong here but it sounds like you just proved my point. Did you say you replaced a $6,000 "nice" integrated with $12,000+ of separate... | |
| New speakers dilemma for vinyls... Heeelp! :))) Speaker specifications & measurements are, relatively speaking, not very helpful. Sometimes, those specifications & measurements are obtained in an anechoic chamber. Every speaker's performance is going to be affected by the size, dimensio... | |
| New speakers dilemma for vinyls... Heeelp! :))) Interesting! Not familiar with Jeff Rowlands amps or Teac preamps. Regardless, I'm very surprised at your findings of the F208 under those circumstances. The specifications for the JR are very impressive and 325 watts into 8 ohms should have been ... | |
| Best Preamp and Amp combination, interesting finding!!! Just a general two cents, based upon my research of about 4 years ago. Things may have changed since then but I doubt it. Unless you are wiling to shell out, at least, $8,000 to $10,000 on separates, you are not going to achieve an appreciable im... | |
| Best Sounding Speaker Cables? Erastof, if you are interested in an objective or more science-based approach to this question, check this out: The Best Speaker Cable | Reviews by Wirecutter (nytimes.com) This article contains links to other articles on this question, includin... | |
| New speakers dilemma for vinyls... Heeelp! :))) Adversam, I put together a CleanerVinyl system around 4 years ago when CleanerVinyl was still trying to get off the ground, so to speak. The last time I checked their website it seemed they were much more geared to offering packages, now, and less... |