rlwainwright
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| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo Arrrrgggggghhhhh! Of course I meant "Sweet Jane" - damn archaic keyboards invented in the 1800s when they tried to slow down typists because the key hammers would get entangled...-RW- | |
| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo As SoundBit posted, the "Intro. To Sweet Kane" by Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner is rock 'n' roll soloing at its finest. It is by far my favorite intro....#2 would have to be the opening to the "Who Do You Love Suite" from Quicksilver's Happy Trails... | |
| Sad but true – budget HT 10 years in making If you like the sound of your current B&Ws, it would make the most sense to remain within that product line. This will provide you with timbre-matching and a much more seamless soundfield. And those characteristics are VERY important for the b... | |
| $1750 AVR/separates + disc player budget:thoughts? Oppo BDP-103 - $500Emotiva UMC-200 - $600Emotiva UPA-500 - $500Total = $1400You could certainly find an Emo XPA-5 amp used for around 550-650, raising your total to $1450-1550. And that gives you a killer 200 watts/ch., 5 channel amp...Emo XPA-5, ... | |
| Starting HT from scratch - 6k budget Emotiva.com is your friend...-RW- | |
| Where's the talk/reviews on the Emotiva UMC-200? AudioCurcle wrote: "A dealer friend of mine says this new Nuforce piece sounds more like a $3-4K processor than its $1,095.00 price will dictate."I have a news flash for you, AC, the NuForce is a re-badged UMC-200. Basically, for you, if it doesn'... | |
| Rega Arm mods-is it really woth t it? If it sounds good to you right now, why mess with it?-RW- | |
| new preamp under $750 with remote, solid state... Emotiva USP-1. It's gotten great reviews and comes with a 30 day in-home trial and a 5 year warranty. $449 with free shipping within the US:http://shop.emotiva.com/collections/processors/products/usp1-RW- | |
| Child-Proof Speakers The ADS 710s, 810s, and 910s from the early 80 had terrific metal grills. There is NO way for a kid to access the drivers thru those. Floor stand them or mate them to the low-profile, tilted ADS stands or the Auralex SpeakerDudes stands and you'd ... | |
| Billy Cobham Spectrum 40 concert Yeah, I saw Billy doing most of Spectrum back in the mid-70s. They were the backup band for Rick Wakeman at DAR Constitution Hall in DC.Billy was *incredible*, fastest hands I've ever seen. And his forearms looked like taut bands of steel. If that... | |
| indoor speakers used oudoors If you can setup a band shell or something similar behind the speakers I believe the sound would be much better. Almost any "indoor" speaker would benefit from the sound reinforcement such a device would provide.And don't forget to have some water... | |
| Pioneer VSX-21 won't turn on? Did you check the fuse?-RW- | |
| First Foray into Internet Radio Using the RCA output from a PC puts you at the mercy of the quality of its DAC and analog output stage. Your best bet is to use some type of digital connection: USB, TOSLINK, Coax, etc. This will allow you to pass a digital signal into your DAC to... | |
| speaker wire termination Basically you want a good, solid "mechanical" connection that exposes as much of the surface of the connector to the binding post. Bananas, spades, and bare wire all offer more than sufficient mechanical connection provided they are done correctly... | |
| The Worst Performance Ever - Really Yeah, that was pretty awful. I remember seeing a concert back in the good ol' daze, it was a 3 act lineup. I do not recall the 2nd and third acts, but the opening band was *truly* awful - The Groundhogs. It was about the only time I've seen a larg... |