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| Maggie's and cats Your cats can learn by Pavlovian conditioned response. Get a squirt gun and fill it will VERY dilute ammonia and water--enough to annoy the cat but not to hurt it. When the cat touches the Maggie,squirt it(the cat,not the Maggie). Cats are clean a... | |
| RIP Ray Charles He will be missed. Of all the patriotic songs germane to the United States, "America,the Beautiful" is the most singable and if I had a vote in congress,I'd support a bill to make it the national anthem. Have you ever heard a stadium crowd of fift... | |
| Does Your System Sound Like the Real Thing? No.Live music,as a time art,includes the thought processess of the performers, the listeners, and the venue. A piece of music is never performed the same way twice. | |
| No one cares this is the anniversary? I care. The second world war profoundly effected all those who survived it. Twenty million persons died in a seven year period. Operation Overlord was the beginning of the end and the good guys won. | |
| Beethoven String Quartets: DDD recordings.... True,the Emersons don't follow accepted performance practice(I'm not a string player so take that with a grain of salt.).The first six,the opus 18 set was from Beethoven's first period when he was absorbing influences from CPE Bach,Hadyn,and Mozar... | |
| Naxos, the way to go for classical? http://www.theclassicalstation.org is an fm and internet music provider. If you link through to their "today's music" listing,they list the albums,labels,and catalog numbers. When you hear something you like,you can look it up.I've heard Naxos rec... | |
| Bloated bass and the panasonic digital receiver Did you experiment with speaker placement? Are they too close to the walls or corners or both? | |
| Looking for first system advice Let me amend my previous advice. Don't pay 250 for the Scott Nixon dac if you get a Bottlehead preamp. Instead,go to Nixon's web page and just get the circuit board and wire it into the preamp circuit ahead of the selector switch. Sorry about the ... | |
| Looking for first system advice Here is another possibility:--Magnepan 1.6,about $1200 used,including shipping--16g heater cord for speaker wire from the hardware store--Adcom 200 watt amp,either a 555 or a 5500, about $500,used.--Bottlehead "Whole Deal" preamp,300 dollars and f... | |
| My first real hi-end audio system Please advise I offer an opinion only because your requested the imput.Think about the esthetic differences between small screen video and large screen video. The advantage the large screen format has over the small screen format is the ability to impart specia... | |
| Is the significance of room acoustics overrated? I figure that speaker placement and the characteristics of the room are interrelated. | |
| Ribbon tweeters/speakers recommendations Please Since your friend won't move someplace that will accomodate the Maggies(smile),google "northcreekmusic.com" to check out their kit with ribbon tweeters. | |
| Greatest rhythm sections Herbie Hancock,Tony Williams,and Ron Carter with the Miles Davis/Wayne Shorter quintets is my personal favorite but I don't fell qualified to say it is the best.Others to consider are from some of Coltrane's groups,Bill Evan's rhythm section,and t... | |
| Help me spend my $1500, interated or separate? http://www.avahifi.comLess is more;no bells or whistles. Within your price range | |
| who is this hilariously funny orchestra? When Peter Schickelie taught at Julliard,he made up a fictional composer named PDQ Bach and used it as a teaching device to make fun of compositional mistakes, by means of contrasts.They gave performances and put up posters announcing the concerts... |