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| The Tubes The Tubes are one of my favorite bands. I saw them in 1978 or 1979, which is basically the same show as is immortalized on their live album "What do you want from live?" They were a pretty popular rock band at that time and their popularity probab... | |
| HDCD playback Yep, what Unsound said......The players will typically have an HDCD logo on the faceplate.BTW, the oft-mentioned Oppo universal players all have HDCD decoders in addition to playing DVD, CD, DVD-A and SACD. A well modified Oppo makes a great all p... | |
| HDCD playback HDCD encoded disc play just fine on a standard CD player.Do a google search on HDCD and you'll find plenty of sources like CDUNIVERSE and more. You can also go to Amazon.com, go to the music tab and search on HDCD. It will list all of their availa... | |
| Power amp for Reference 3A speakers? Not knowing your budget, I agree with Saki70's recommendation. By all accounts it is a fine amp and they tend to be easy to re-sell if you don't love it. | |
| Power amp for Reference 3A speakers? That is a fine speaker. Personally, I liked tubes with mine. I used several different tube amps ranging in power between 1.5-5 watt/channel SET tube amps to 30 watt/channel P-P tube amps. All produced plenty of volume in my smallish room, but the ... | |
| Good Country recordings I really like Johnny Cash's "Live from Folsom Prison" and "Orange Blossom Special" in addition to all of the American albums that he produced in his later years. Not really country either, but excellent records.Willie Nelson has some incredible st... | |
| what concerts do you wish you attended? I just bought tickets to see Willie Nelson this summer. I didn't want Willie to be on my list of "artist I regret never seeing". I really wish I had made the effort to see Johnny Case before he passed away....TIC | |
| Any bluegrass fans? Anyone heard Blueground Undergrass? I heard one of their live recordings on a college station in the either Tennessee or North Carolina. It was awesome! | |
| Nearfield listening Listener57,What vintage are your Clements RT-7s? I bought a pair in about 1985-86 and kept them until about 2000. Mine were the old version that had a complete foam grille wrap from top to bottom. They looked very much like a vandy 2C, only turned... | |
| Element Sub ??? Wow, two "Element" brands. One looks like very high end and the other a very low end house brand from a big box retailer.It would seem that someone has a trademark issue.....TIC | |
| Element Sub ??? Element is the house brand sold by Circuit City. Attached is a link to the current Element sub from the Circuit City site:http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Element-ESW12-12-Subwoofer-Black-ESW12/sem/rpsm/oid/190834/catOid/-16922/rpem/ccd/productDetai... | |
| grounding issue Do you have cable or satellite TV? If so, try disconnecting the coax cable connecting the cable/satellite to your TV/system. This is a very common cause of a ground loop which produces a hum.If this fixes the problem, you can put an isolator on th... | |
| What is UPconverting? "Upconverting to HDMI" as it relates to the Onkyos means you can connect any type of video source (analog or digital) and the receiver will perform switching and "upconvert" any signal to HDMI output. This allows you to connect VCR (analog composi... | |
| Proper power up and shut off sequence seperates ? Source, pre-amp, amp, then the reverse for turn off.TIC | |
| Review: Decco Amp, pre-amp with built in DAC Jcaudio,It's great to hear that there is yet another choice out there for a great budget system. Download/rip your tunes to a laptop or PC, connect it to the Decco and off you go to audiophile land!I have the 2003 version of your setup. I have a R... |