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Do you protect your hearing?
Perfectionist - what helmet issue? 
Do you protect your hearing?
Loud pipes save about as many lives as loud car stereos.http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/pages/safety/safety40.htm 
Do you protect your hearing?
Actually, a loud exhaust on a motorcycle does not usually affect the rider (driver) anymore than a loud exhaust on a car or truck affects the driver. The exhaust is pointed AWAY from the vehicle operator.The reason many motorcyclists and Harley bi... 
Room Problem Improvement Question: Over a Garage
Do what Zargon says - it works. You can even paint the steel jackpost bright orange so it's more noticeable when parking in the garage.The nice thing about Zargon's suggestion is that the fix works, but is not permanent. Permanent structural modif... 
How close is too close for a truntable to speakers
Dan_ed's got it right - find a null spot in your room and put the table there. My LP12 is sitting on a wall shelf directly behind my left speaker, in a bass null. I have no problems at all with feedback or other sonic impingement. 
Audio Research and Mark Levinson
The combination should work just fine. 
Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue?
Try some DIY room treatments before you start changing your gear. 
Vandersteen V2W or 2WQ
If your primary goal was music reproduction, you would be best served with the 2Wq. It is a very "musical" subwoofer. Since your primary goal is HT, you need to get the V2W. It is much better suited to explosions/train wrecks/cannon-fire than the ... 
Why does Denon 3910 default to PCM for sacds?
Rather than it being some big corporate conspiracy as you seem to suggest, it may be that Denon, a solidly mid-fi company, has figured out that most of its end-users want to hear their subwoofers go "boom." Source Direct bypasses bass management. ... 
Is the SACD Format Flawed?
If I had a nickel for every person (including "respected members" of blah blah blah) who found flaws in any format you can think of, I'd have enough nickels to market my own format. 
Vandersteen VLR Speakers
I'm using VLRs as the back speakers in a 7.1 system. They work great. Sound good too. 
Has amyone seen the Sony Qualia 006 70 in RPTV?
Saw it at my local dealer. They had it sitting next to a (more expensive) Fujitsu plasma TV. The Fujitsu looked grey and sickly by comparison. Other TVs in the room looked even worse. The Qualia needs its own display room! 
HELP for Tinnitus
Things that may help reduce tinnitus:- avoid alcoholic beverages- avoid caffiene- don't take aspirin or products containing aspirin- get sufficient sleep every night- avoid loud noises. Earplugs are your friends!- keep your ears free of earwax- ta... 
cleaning your spade connectors
Don't use chemicals. Use a rubber eraser to rub the tarnish off. It won't leave any residue, and it won't attack the base metal. 
The black hole of component repair?
Two months seems to be about average for consumer electronics repairs.