onhwy61
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| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 Love the Bo Diddley.Apparently Brian Wilson wrote Barbara Ann about Agent 99. And there really was a girl from Ipanema. | |
| Is this a disgrace to the Industry ? I wouldn't buy it, but it is innovative. It's actually very cool. I hope it succeeds. | |
| Looking to build a system for under $5k The April Music Aura V2 represents very high value being an all in one CD receiver. It has a 125/250 wpc amplifier, FM tuner, CD player, headphone amp, USB & optical digital inputs and Bluetooth connectivity. You can later add an outboard ph... | |
| Should I upgrade to XLR interconnects? What RCA style interconnects are you using? Both you amp and SACD player are fully balanced designs and are intended to be linked via the balanced (XLR) input/outputs. Whether or not you will hear a meaningful sonic improvement is a question tha... | |
| The Final Answer Happy for your success. Being an audiophile is not a competition with other audiophiles or even a challenge to yourself. It's more about enjoying music that is also well reproduced. That allows for a vast range of equipment at widely differing ... | |
| 'scuse me while I kiss this guy? Tomcy6, thanks! | |
| Lots of knobs might cause more repair chance Not necessarily true, but if you buy any piece of vintage equipment, you should have it thoroughly checked by a qualified technician which can add several hundred dollars to your ownership costs. | |
| 'scuse me while I kiss this guy? I'm listening to "Live At Winterland" and Hendrix actually does say "scuse me while I kiss this guy". The show was a 1968 performance. So was Jimi goofing on how people misunderstood the lyric and was that part of his live act? | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 To put spending $100K for an audio component into perspective, it was reported today that a "Russian billionaire" hired Mariah Carey, Elton John, the DJ Mark Ronson and Antonio Banderas to perform at his granddaughter's wedding. The cost of flyin... | |
| Stand mount speakers for a very large room !! In general stand mounted loudspeakers sound best when used with fairly substantial stands. It's possible that the stands + monitors could weigh as much and be as bulky as a floorstander.Are you trying to fill the large room with sound or will you... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 The best quality audio products have always been expensive. When introduced in 1957 the JBL Paragon cost $1,850 and big spenders such as Frank Sinatra owned them. The Paragons were expensive, but as someone pointed out earlier in this thread. th... | |
| Think twice before concluding some thing sounds better When the recording engineer tries out several different microphones to find out which is best suited to a vocalist, do you think he spends weeks getting familiar with the resulting vocal sound? How many laps does it take for a formula one driver ... | |
| Question on hearing Raging hormones! Everything is more intense when you're a teenager. | |
| Vandersteen A question for all the people who say their Vandys don't fall apart on large scale music -- at what volume level are you listening? | |
| Vandersteen Most audiophile loudspeakers "fall apart" when trying to reproduce large scale music when compared to their performance of smaller musical groups. The Vandersteens are no worst than other similar loudspeakers in this respect. |