rsbeck
Responses from rsbeck
| Satori Shotgun or Hologram The Sonus Fabers are less expensive than B & W N803's. To me, the Sonus Fabers beat any of the B & W's until you get to the N803's and the N803's just barely nip them. But the Sonus Fabers are a big bang for the buck, IMO, and you can usua... | |
| Best upgrade for my system? What's your budget and what kind of system do you want -- music, home theatre, a combo? 90% music,10% movies? What? How important to you is surround sound? Is it important for music listening,just for movies? Need more info to give you good advice. | |
| Any Muddy Water acoustics CDs out there? Folk Singer is great. Also, the Chess Box set of Muddy Waters is a must-have for every Muddy Waters fan. TheChess Howlin' Wolfe and Sonny Boy Williamson BoxSets should be on the short lists of every blues fan along with the Box set of Robert Johnson. | |
| How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt???? Now that you've found the dog you like, do you still have the residual urge to keep upgrading your menagerie ofpets, still read pet magazine and hang around pet shops, or have you conquered that? | |
| What to add to my system for best sound? Geoff -- I have no problem with your approach -- I wholeheartedly endorse it. At this stage of the game,when one wants to hear a significant upgrade in musicquality, an upgrade in speakers will definitely give a big bang for the buck. I don't thin... | |
| Satori Shotgun or Hologram Another speaker you might want to check out is Sonus Faber Grand Piano Homes. | |
| Satori Shotgun or Hologram Chevelle -- That's a nice system. The CDM7's are nice speakers, but you can improve on themwith the money you're planning to spend on cables and a Sub. Personally, I would much rather have full range speakers thanlimited range speakers with a Sub.... | |
| What to add to my system for best sound? Geoff --I will not flame you. I agree that an upgrade in speakers is usually the biggest bang for the buck. And, not a controversial some people claim to hear it while others don't kind of thing like high end cables. The kind of obvious everyone h... | |
| What to add to my system for best sound? First thing I would do is take the money you were going to spend on higher end speaker cables and put it back in your pocket. At this stage of the game, you will get far more bang for your bucks by upgrading your source [CD player] and your amplif... | |
| Satori Shotgun or Hologram I ain't smacking B & W CDM7 nt's. But, I wouldn't mistake them for N803's. I am just saying, if it were *me* -- I would save the hugecable money and I would put it into my speakers. I don't care what cables you use, those cables won't make CDM... | |
| How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt???? Joy -- You seem better now -- I am glad our posts could help you so much. If ever you need counseling again in the future -- you know where we are. :-) | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel It has to do with dynamic range -- CD is compressed compared toSACD. It also has to do with the filtering used with CD playbackand digital gaps due to the lower sample rate. It has to do with thesignificantly lower noise floor of SACD. Has to do w... | |
| Satori Shotgun or Hologram What do you hope to accomplish with these cables? | |
| How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt???? In the old days, when someone became interested in some activity like audio or -- hell -- make it -- stamp collecting -- or bird watching -- that person was called an enthusiast and the activity was called a hobby. Now, if someone devotes more att... | |
| Advice on separates Check out the Anthem AVM20 Surround processor. Highly recommend this piece for it's sound quality and value. Dependingon your budget and space considerations, you might want to have a separate amplifier for your front right and left channels and t... |