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| Where should the money go? Ah, the old budget allocation problem... When considering more expensive turntable/arm/cartridge combinations, I've recommended to friends that they spend about 50% of their budget on the turntable, and the remainder on the tonearm and cartridge. ... | |
| Acceptance Angle of FM Antenna The "acceptance angle", as I understand it, refers to the orientation of the antenna that produces the strongest signal, give or take some level / db. It is sort of inverse to the "rejection angle", where the antenna produces the weakest signal or... | |
| What to do with your tax return? Charles: I bought the Pioneer DV-37 about 4 months ago, and have been VERY pleased with it. I got mine for about $650. If you want the name/Web address of the dealer, drop me a note. Best - Scott C. | |
| Cheap Canadians I changed the subtitle to the post, because I think the Canadian audio industry is cranking out some of the best and highest-value sound gear being made anywhere! Those who have read my posts over the past year know (and maybe are sick of hearing)... | |
| Best value speakers available The entire line of Vandersteen speakers, within their respective price ranges, are "high value" speakers. Richard Vandersteen has emphasized value for years, which is why the money goes into the cabinet assembly and the drivers, rather than an exp... | |
| What to do with your tax return? Jeff, my man!! Your post hit a very resonant chord with me (notice the catchy audio allusion). For the first time in several years, I got a refund (about $2700) and had it mentally spent on buying a Perceptual Technologies P-1A and P-3A. Not to be... | |
| Finally gonna buy new speakers, ideas? You've already gotten lots of good suggestions, but I'd add a couple of additional choices: the Vandersteen 5; the Coincident Super Eclipse; and the Martin-Logan Prodigy. These three speakers encompass three quite different approaches to sound rep... | |
| Technics SP10-Mk2 Rega RB300 Combine Sorry -- didn't read your post carefully enough. On second reading, I note that you already have a Rega P3. It's a fine table, and I doubt the Technics will beat it. If you simply want to upgrade your Rega, look at used VPI tables - such as the HW... | |
| Technics SP10-Mk2 Rega RB300 Combine I don't recall if the Technics SP10 is a belt-drive or direct-drive turntable. If it is a direct-drive, my personal suggestion is to avoid it (given its age and amount of use), and get a newer belt-drive unit. You can often find used Rega Planar t... | |
| Power Amp/Pre-Amp With a $4000 budget, you have a lot of good choices. You might start by considering the Bryston BP-25 preamp and Bryston 4B-ST. Both can be purchased discounted for about $3300. If you are interested, drop me a personal E-mail and I will give you ... | |
| Music to make you laugh by In my previous post, I forgot to add the work by PDQ Bach, better known as Peter Shickele (sp?). Now, THAT'S funny stuff!! | |
| Music to make you laugh by Some of most clever and original sounding music that made me smile broadly -- well, maybe I even laughed once or twice because the music hit a responsive chord -- can be heard on recordings by the Microscopic Sextet, and the Willem Breuker Collect... | |
| VANDERSTEEN 2ce signatures? Got to put in my 2 cents on this one. I'm a Vandersteen owner since 1988, when I bought a pair of 2Ci's. Eventually moved on to the 3A's, and now have 3A Signatures. My listening room is roughly 12'x17' with 8' ceilings, and my Vandies sound great... | |
| LP Label help. Based on many years of LP collecting (going back to the late 1950's), there were many labels that had fine jazz recordings -- and most of them have already been mentioned. A pair of Italian labels also produced some superb jazz recordings starting... | |
| Rate the Audiophile Publications I only buy audio mags to look at the naked women...all those articles just waste space! |