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| PRojector v. RPTV I have been wrestling with the very same question, researching, auditioning, reading, thinking, comparing, imagining, laughing, crying... Here's what I have concluded:Projector Pros: You can make the screen size anything you want it to be. It weig... | |
| home theater for 3000 Sean is right. What you describe is a receiver-based system.I'll try to help, but it'll be a real challenge to work with a $3,000 budget. I'll do my best.There are a few other close choices in the receiver and DVD player category and I wouldn't pr... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Amen, brother Steve. We can make a mint by starting the Church of the Heavenly Power (Cord).Jadem6, you appear to be criticizing me for not believing there is a difference, and then criticizing me for trying to be fair. I bought the TMC's because ... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Maybe this explains it all -- or at least part of it:"Auditory memory is said to last for only about forty seconds (average) and this possibly explains the diverse auditory perceptions." From:http://www.innerear.on.ca/editorials/editorial-v9-3.htm... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Abe, what a great idea. If I thought audiophiles had any money left over for lawn care, I'd go into the $5,000 garden hose business. An easy sell. | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" As the instigator of this thread, I'd like to point out that no one has yet responded to Abe's observation:"With regard to AC power cords I cannot understand the logic of spending hundreds of dollars on colorful fat cables to plug into a wall outl... | |
| Tube preamps under 2K with 2 outputs? I second Slowhand's comments. This from the AI Modulus 3A manual:"Main Out #2 is the same Main Out #1 but includes a 470 Ohm resistor in series with the output. This "higher impedance" corrects for anomalies, i.e., "tube glare" that are exhibited ... | |
| Record-playing Rituals? You can call this a "ritual" if you like, but I think it is indispensable: My system is in a dedicated biogenically sterilized room. Before entering the sterile listening room, I spend exactly 27 minutes in a high pressure antiseptic shower, rinse... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" I have no way of verifying this rather astounding claim, but perhaps someone else does:Virtually no high end cable company makes its own cables. Some don't even design their cables. Most of the cables come from the same factories; they choose amon... | |
| Speakers For Fisher 500C Thanks very much for all the advice! I'm beginning the enjoyable journey of finding the right speakers, starting with your suggestions. | |
| Speakers For Fisher 500C Thanks. You probably could get decent sound from those $50,000 speakers, but I was hoping to spend a bit less. | |
| Are Audiophiles Obsessive Nuts? What about the issues of the reviewers, the "gold rush syndrome," the allegedly fixed "Recommended Components," etc.? Did anyone read http://www.high-endaudio.com/index_ac.html | |
| Are Audiophiles Obsessive Nuts? BTW, the article was written by Eric Barbour, an applications engineer with Svetlana Electron Devices Inc. (the tube manufacturer).He makes several points worth discussing:1. Audiophiles are unnaturally interested in details that most people canno... | |
| Best CD Trans. under 1,500 Be careful of buying a Theta Data Basic. Mine stopped reading CDs after 5 years and I have been told by a Theta dealer, two high end repair shops, North American Philips (who manufactured the part) and Theta HQ themselves that the part is no longe... | |
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