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| Speakers for a very large room? Install your current system in the room. Listen. If you don't feel the experience is equal to your current room sound, see if you can figure out why. Re-position the speakers a few times. If you still don't feel the sound is what you want, det... | |
| Have you ever reversed your opinion on a piece of gear? As a former dealer, I have reversed my feelings on a piece of gear many times for different reasons. For example, as I have posted here before, EVERY piece of Nakamichi I sold broke within 2 weeks and had to be sent back for service. They came b... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... I get this and have a question. I am THINKING about selling a set of speakers that was refurbished by the factory to new and just have remained in their sealed boxes since I have another pair I listen to. Back then, these sold for a bit over $1500... | |
| best preamps Except that the Jeff Rowland sounds horrible in MY ROOM.Like I wrote earlier, get a bunch of them and try them in YOUR ROOM, which, as everyone knows, is the most important determiner of how anything "sounds."Why is this so hard to get across?? | |
| best preamps Everything depends upon your ROOM. All the pre-amps mentioned here are wonderful in some ways and not so much in others--see the qualifying comments supplied with the recommendations. Your ROOM is the main determiner of how your total system sou... | |
| Marty Balin has passed away. Saw him in person a couple of years ago at a very small venue. AMAZING talent, of course, but humble on stage as he connected with whatever musicians connect with to bring their art to the rest of us.My generation of musicians is leaving us--they... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? WHY are you all still working on this one? I already posted the final answer:I have PERSONALLY spoken to the electrons, and they stated unequivocally that they NEED BURN IN. It makes it MUCH easier to travel down a wire that is already "slick" f... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Sure they do. I PERSONALLY have spoken to the electrons and they MUCH PREFER cables that have been broken in so they can travel in smoother lines. | |
| Get well Dickey Betts Stood on the side of the stage in 1972 in Bristol VA/TENN and watched Duane and Dickey trade solos during a show we opened for them at some college there. Both our bands were staying at the local Holiday Inn, which, I am sure back then, thought a... | |
| This is juvenile... Easy one:Biggest seller of all time back in the day--and an amazing artist:Linda Ronstadt by a mile. | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound Magnepan. | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? @tubessuck:Oh, yeah. Forgot about the people MAKING the music, I guess:https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/guitar-essentials-five-things-you-should-know-about-tubesNot that THEY are important--only the musicians, after all. What the heck do THEY kn... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Tubes suck? What a revelation! And here I thought they were inanimate objects. I will have to go back to biology class to find out what their various support systems are. Obviously you are either a genius or, well, we will use the Bambi and Thu... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. Thanks, man. Most of us "old folks" who loved music were HUGE Band fans from day 1. You have brought back some wonderful memories; I still have them on my turntable often and listen to ALL their albums from over the many years they were recordin... | |
| Burt Reynolds has passed away RIP, Burt. Here in Palm Beach County he was a constant presence. He had a local theater (Jupiter) for public performances by mostly local actors of stage plays and a "school" where people could learn the job. He was everyone's friend down here ... |