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| Monitors are falling I would suggest the Vandersteen 2Ce or 2Ce Signatures with the Sound Anchor stands. These speakers sound good and the stands are tri-points which tilt them back a little, and best of all, they are are SUPER stable. There is a grill all the way aro... | |
| what to upgrade You have a good system, everything is matched and in about the same league. Nice stuff too. With due respect to everyone else, I would start at the most important link, the speakers. Sell the Vandersteen 1's and get some 2 Ce's at least ($750 used... | |
| question about BOSE reputation No matter what separates you get, you won't get anything worse than Bose. For a budget like you have I would go for what you can get a good deal on, and spend the most on speakers. OR, if you want separates, try a Parasound processor, their intro ... | |
| Listening chair After years of thinking about chairs, I decided that the ultimate chair would of course be comfy, have a big armrest for the remote, and let you put your feet up (either a recliner or coffee table req'd.). For group listening need a couch for 1-on... | |
| Music from my computer notebook - how? I have heard that windows media player is not as good as Winamp, which is available for free download and can be skinned (customized). That said, I tried it and could not get it to play CD's. I am going to reinstall sometime.I would recommend conn... | |
| Best value speakers available I agree with those recommending Vandersteen. I've had some 2Ce's in one of my systems for 4 years and at the time nothing in their price range could compare, even now I would end up paying much more $$$ to get something with as clean of a sound an... | |
| Difficulty Tilting Martin Logans Foward Thanks for the suggestions far.1. Can't use shims or spikes (tried both) because while they give you enough tilt, they do nothing to prevent the toppling over of the speaker; they just add to the imbalance.2. Would not want to weight down the top ... | |
| Cheap Canadians I just wanted to echo your observation, I too have seen a lot of those speakers (paradigm and psb) for sale here, on ebay, and on various web sites in the past 3 months. I have also seen sonic frontiers (another canadian compnay) products offered ... | |
| Logans and Heavy Metal? I have ML Sequel II's and often play heavy metal through them and they do fine. First, I do not assume that Metal is only listened to at very high volumes. Tool and Rage and other metal sound great at medium volumes, low volumes, and high volumes ... | |
| Question about older stuff I am facisinated by the older equipment from the 80's, which is an outright bargain compared to "mid-fi" new equipment. I would not go back to the tube equipment of the 70's or 60's personally being worried about capacitor problems and such. But i... | |
| How to magnetically shield a speaker???? A piece of steel or iron will have enough ferromagentic material to shield your tv. Don't use aluminum or tin. Put the steel/iron between the tv and the speaker and you will have no problem. Try it with a Cast iron pan from the kitchen if you want... | |
| Directv booster or amplifier I don't think an amp is going to help. DirecTV is a digital signal, and you should either get it or not. There should be no shadowing or fading because those are analog concepts that should not be applicable to your signal. When your signal degrad... | |
| Lifting grounds in the system. If you really want to mess with a floating ground. Go to Radio Shack and get the two prong foreign travel outlet adaptor, no. 273-1406D for $1.99. This will allow you to go from 2-prong polarized (one prong is wider) to simply 2 prong (both the th... | |
| best integrated for kef105.3 4ohm Considering your price range you may want to think about the Aragon 4004 Mk. II amplifier which can be had used for about $875.00, leaving you with money left over for a preamp. I believe that this is amp is stable to 2 ohms. I know you are lookin... | |
| Cheapest places to buy gear? Jeff! Jeff!! What are you doing?? I have dealt with Jeffs Sound Values and they are awesome, Jeff is great as is the rest of the staff. Prices for their used equip is right at the market level and very fair, no gauging there. I am local to San Dei... |