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| AMC Tube Amplifiers joe b, here's a shameless plug for a s/s amp if ya like toobs - i have an older electrocompaniet aw100 that i'm asking $800 for here on a-gon (orig retail - $2400)- as i have gotten little interest, i'm willin' to entertain reasonable offers... ;~... | |
| Best speaker in nearfield listening wjones, yer experience is why i prefer to buy used & get more bang for the buck. sonus faber extremas, @ $4300 used, may not have let ya down the way the electa amators did. i've heard the *relatively* less-expensive sonus fabers, & got a ... | |
| Better adapter for portable CD players? woodn't it be better to yust have one i/c between cd-player & preamp? having two i/c's yust introduces another break in the wiring, w/another set of rca's, & how good can the rat-shack interface really be? i tink i'd rather have only one m... | |
| The "right" speaker jm lab make some nice speakers, but there seems to be a love-hate feeling about their inwerted-dome metal tweets. personally, i enjoy mine in my meret re monitors...enjoy the hunt! :>) doug s. ps - i really tink it wood be worthwhile to also ch... | |
| Better adapter for portable CD players? music-direct sells quite a bit of hardware; i'd email 'em or call 'em... perhaps some cable mfr's would also be worth contacting. good luck, doug s. | |
| The "right" speaker i tink someting from china, or perhaps n. korea mite be nice... | |
| Stereophile's refusal to review more low i enjoy reading rags like s'phile. i enjoy reviewers like mikey fremer. i *also* enjoy arthur salvatore's website, especially his comments about rags like s'phile. i also enjoy www's like a-gon. how do i reconcile it all? easy - i have a brain, &a... | |
| Better adapter for portable CD players? dunno, but music-direct used to sell a decent mini-plug-to-rca's i/c, made by audioquest, i tink... i got one for my 1st cd player - a panasonic slp1a portable... | |
| Best speaker in nearfield listening 'rino at prosound has a pair of sonus faber extremas f/s in yer price-range, w/stands; dunno how they'd do in the nearfield, tho... | |
| The "right" speaker ok, now ya got choices fer the right speaker, how 'bout the left one? ;~) doug s. | |
| BEST SPEAKER TO MATCH.. toobgroover, yure right on two counts - make yer decisions based upon what *ewe* like. it's ok to get suggestions, but the final decision should be *yours*.and yes, nht's *are* designed for near-back-wall placement, what was i tinking? ;~) doug s. | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 euro bumpers? that's a good weigh to lose wait! ;~) ya, i like the es30 & ronal weels, but i like the 2-piece bbs-style wire-mesh 15x8's on my car now - cuz i could *afford* 'em! ;~) some day i *will* own an es30... :>)mayberry l/m has an e... | |
| thorens or Rega hi rwilli, dunno if i know about 'em better than most, but i *do* know that i got a good deal on an origin-live modded rb250 from stoneaudio uk. i tink ewe can also buy 'em direct from origin-live. in the usa, i believe galen carol audio sells 'em... | |
| The "right" speaker hiflyer, if newforms weren't around, i'd get the diapasons. 'rino of prosound got a pair, & even *he* sez the newforms are better than the diapasons... ;~) but i dunno how they'd do in the nearfield. if ya want floor-standers, i tink the proac... | |
| Opinions: Oracle/SME IV/ Monster Alpha2 i tink it was zamani that posted foto's of giovanni's car - really sharp! i heard it was comin' in euro-car. i tink zamani also got a set of sz hedders for his werde...good luck w/the oracle - ewe *will* like it! :>) doug s. |