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Any Totem owners in Houston?
portland oregon is in the same boat. only 1 dealer has them and i won't step foot into that store. i usually listen to them at CES or buy a pair off a'gon.i have had over 5 pairs of totems and they were all excellent. i use a couple pairs of mani ... 
How do YOU organize your iTunes library?
i only use playlists so i only include enough songs to store on my iphone, touch and ipods. for example, i setup a playlist called "4iphone" and move enough music in it that doesn't exceed 14gb. same goes for the other ipods. i mainly listen to 8 ... 
Airport Express to DAC - Cable Suggestion
install a jitter remover device between the AE and your dac. i do this in all of my setups and the sound is vastly improved. you can use a toslink cable from the AE to the jitter device, then use aes or coax to the dac depending on what is support... 
NHT SuperOne vs. 1.3 vs. 1.5?
i have owned in the past the nht super zeros, super ones, 1.5's, nht subs, and the 2.9's. i would opt for the 1.5's with a warm sounding amp, like mcintosh, or classe. most nht's tilt to the 'cool' side. 
John Klemmer
tom scott and boney james are 2 of my favorites. we saw boney james last year and it was excellent. other artitsts that i listen to are: dave koz, kirk whalum, david sanborn (terrible in concert IMO), eric marienthal, joshua redman, and patrick la... 
Christmas Jazz Anybody?
trans siberian orchestra's 3 christmas cd's - excellent and even better in concert (have attended their christmas tour stop in portland every year) yellowjackets - peace roundfourplay - snowbound 
John Klemmer
i have had the mobile fidelity 'touch' album for over 30 years. i have many of his albums/cds and i think 'touch' is his best work. 
Who was your first
john klemmer- touch, around 30 years ago. i still have the mobile fidelity album, just listened to it a month ago. 
Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme?
i do know dan, been over to his house before to listen to his modified dvp9000es players when i was thinking of modifying mine a few years ago. i have not heard his modified TP, but i have listened to his preamps and cd/sacd modified players. 
Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme?
something lost in the translation. i never mentioned about a dac in the g5. imo, there is no dac that is worth anything that resides in a computer. jax2, i think you are confused on what a wap device is. it is a device outside of the computer. you... 
Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme?
the AE hookup is not different than what you get with the transporter. all the AE does is to accept a signal wired or wireless from a central computer. that is exactly what the transporter does. so if you think that the AE device is inferior to th... 
Imac too old???
you are running fine now. what i would do is get yourself a NAS disk setup and put all of your itunes stuff on that. get a NAS that has 3 or 4 disk drives in it so you can build a raid 5 setup to protect your library incase 1 disk fails. also, the... 
Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme?
jax2- the only reason i said what i said is because your initial reply indicated that the poster "needed" to do certain things. IMO, there are much better alternatives to what you stated. let me clarify:to get wireless, there are many options: wir... 
Anyone compared Totem Forest to Odyessy Lorelei
i did. it was ok. i used to own the odyssey monoblocks a few years ago and they were nice, but i have since have had mcintosh and classe equipment which are many levels above the odyssey. for the $$$, odyssey produce some very nice equipment. but ... 
Anyone compared Totem Forest to Odyessy Lorelei
i like the totem's over the lorelei. i do like the odyssey's but the forest is a more musical speaker. the forest will give you the bottom end like the lorelei (but tighter) and a better midrange with sweet sounding highs. you should listen to the...