onhwy61
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| Noticed the Patriot Act's effects on PayPal? As it turns out the government's use of personal info is somewhat benign. They're looking for data that points to unusual activity. What's scarier to me is the deep data mining by commercial companies that are interested in our normal everyday act... | |
| One Small Step ... That Transforms Your System That's many many words to back out of a hole you dug for yourself.Why don't you list your system. It might serve as a guide, or a warning, for people about resolving systems with many many tweaks that sounds potentially great, but can sound awful.... | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? For a basic box speaker to be really inefficient is something of a design flaw. However, if it's not a box speaker, then I think different standards apply. It's also just as easy to say that low wattage amps are a design flaw since they don't matc... | |
| Have you heard or own the Shakti Hallograph Has anyone compared the Hallograph to those little resonanting bowls? Or what about the dots you stick on the walls? Does it matter if your ear canal hasn't been irrigated in the past decade?If you're going to run with the big dog, first admit you... | |
| One Small Step ... That Transforms Your System It took you six years to put together a thin and lifeless sounding system. Contradicting yourself you also describe your system as sounding great. Then you make a subtle change and the system is transformed and is now highly musical.How many other... | |
| Feedback blew my phono stage? Your system pictures can be misleading, but it appears you have your turntables in corners of the room with the loudspeakers within inches of them. It could be that the combination is responsible for the feedback. Can the turntables be moved? | |
| Does OTL pre-amplifier exist? Yes, they exist and in large numbers from a wide variety of manufacturers. | |
| Selling dispute. Please comment. Is it possible that the buyer knew the amps could not come with original manuals and that demanding them is some form of shakedown scam? If he had done his research how could he not have known about the manuals? | |
| Paypal Marakanetz, regarding Slikric3000, some people just can't deal with it. He's probably well into Plan B. | |
| Selling dispute. Please comment. You haven't provided any of the correspondence between the the buyer and yourself so I can't get an idea of the buyer's attitude. Basically, if the buyer is coming off as a jerk or worst yet, an asshole, then I think it's perfectly within your rig... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Actually more than a few people laugh at Rolex and their wearers. In every hobby there's a pecking order. | |
| Help needed to recover costs please Dandy, how did you hear of and what motivated you to purchase a product from White Zombie? I'm curious why people want to transact with, at least to me, a truly obscure company.I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. | |
| Downgrading There's downgrading and there's simplifying. They are distinct. Your high fidelity system is nothing more than a possession. At different points in one's life your ideas and feeling toward your possessions can change, sometimes dramatically. It ac... | |
| What to upgrade first I suggest two moves at once. There's a NYAL SuperIt phono preamp up for auction right now on Audiogon. It can replace your existing NAD phono pre and the VAC line stage. Sell those items along with the MG-1 and get a newer used small Maggies with ... | |
| can harbeth speakers play loud What amplifier are you going to use with them? |