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is interconnect more important than speaker cable
When you bought your last car,did the commissioned salesperson try to add on a rustproofing package and a pin stripe decal for only $150? How about a rear deck airfoil spoiler,when the de facto speed limit is 70mph?Since you asked first,spend your... 
Free music from artists you've never heard before?
Thanks. Cyberspace is bringing down the costs of production so that artists can get their stuff heard without having to convince a producer that it can recover the costs of production and turn a profit. 
Instruments of the Orchestra
To answer your second question,there are such charts in Psychology of Music by Carl Seashore. 
sexiest sounding female vocalists?
Highly subjective,of course.Here are two who haven't been mentioned yet.Sarah Vaughn and Maria Calis 
New Years Resolutions
Me? Lose twenty pounds.Happy New Year,Sean 
Are you bored to tears with the topics lately?
Ok,since it's Christmas and because you asked nicely,here goes:)--The Morrison ELAD is the best bargain in audio.--Tubes are distortion factories.--Maggies need at least a thousand watts a side to sound decent.--If you are using anything more esot... 
Discs you play again and again
Mozart Symphonies 39,40,41- Szell/ClevelandMy Favorite Things-Coltrane and all4 and More-Miles Davis5th Brandenburger,K Richter,Bach Orchestra of MunichOpus 59 quartets,Beethoven,Emerson S QMozart Piano Concerto 24,C CurzonAn Art Tatum anthology o... 
Are you bored to tears with the topics lately?
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. What's the matter,the rest of your wives don't like music? 
How low can one hear Huh?? Say again
In PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC,Carl Seashore states that the lowest audible tone is about 16 cycles per second. It is effected by intensity(amplitude) and the form of the tone. Someone with acute hearing can hear a "pure" tone(no overtones) at about 12 cy... 
Frequency Charts
Slappy:Set up a graph where the differences between each whole number is one inch. The difference between 1 and 2 would be one inch and the difference is one hundred percent(2 doubling one). The difference between 10 and 11 would be ten percent bu... 
Anybody else bothered by $8call.00
One more thing,as a dealer can write off his/her taxes a demo as a business expense,potential buyers should keep that in mind when negotiating a price. 
Anybody else bothered by $8call.00
I can speak only for myself.--Supply and demand. You will get one price if it's the Saturday before Christmas and they have one left and a different price if it's the third Thursay in June,they have five in stock,and their note payment is due the ... 
"The Law of Diminishing Returns"???
Slappy, Are you going to stand for FatParrot's gossip about you?((While Slappy is thinking about that,I take one of his beers---speaking of something diminished.)) 
"The Law of Diminishing Returns"???
So slappy,how many beers in a six-pack again.For me,the best value for money spent happens at what would define as mid-fi. 
Famous and favorite recordings
Baroque Era:--Bach,Brandenburg Concertos,Karl Richter and the Bach Orchestra of Munich.--Bach,Goldburg Variation recording mentioned above.Classic Era:--Mozart,Symphonies 40 and 41,George Szell,Cleveland Orchestra--Mozart,Piano Concertos 21 and 23...