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| The Best Inexpensive Wines Available Now By far, the best under $10 wine I've had is now the 2003 Bodegas Nieto Senetiner Don Nicanor from Argentina.The "Don Nicanor" is a blend 0f 34% Cab, 33% Merlot, and 33% Malbec. It is a rich, jammy, lush wine with moderate oak highlights. To this p... | |
| Best sounding Broadway recordings? Try the new recording of Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures".Also, the remastered (1961) "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying". | |
| what' your favorite movie to show off your sys. w/ For color balance/saturation: "Black Narcissus" (Criterion version).For multi-channel sound: "The Last of the Mohicans". | |
| Early 80's - late 70's best audio products I nominate the Advent 300 receiver. What a great piece of kit! Small in size, modest in power (15w/ch), sensible in features, and big on performance.It has an excellent phono stage designed by Holman and a FM tuner section which stressed noise rej... | |
| Review: Yamaha S1500 universal disc player CD Player The web review for the S1500 is the same as the print version (Dec.2004).I think what Ranada was referring to is strictly a multi-channel comment. I wrongly thought after reading his review that you must use the front L and R outputs (summed to 2c... | |
| What Was Thrown Off the Tallahatchie Bridge? "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon.No, no, it's about Mick Jagger! | |
| Anyone have experience with "Signal Cable" Cables? Frank's Analog1 and Analog2 interconnects compete with cables in the $100 to $250 price range.His power cords: the Magic and HC Digital are superb! They compete with stuff that cost many hundreds of $$$.Haven't tried his speaker cables or his silv... | |
| whats the biggest mistake you made? Selling my Berning EA-230/Chartwell LS3/5a combination.Selling my Marantz 150 tuner. Never get rid of a 'scope tuner! It would have been fine for AM and the 'scope was great for system trouble shooting. Buying a/d/s CM7 speakers. I don't want to t... | |
| ARC users please A few years back Stereophile gave the LS9 a very positive review stating it was ARC's best solid state pre-amp to date. I never heard the unit but its ergonomics intrigue me; no balance contol, XLR and rca inputs and outputs, a rather purist desig... | |
| Benchmark Dac1 + Rotel 1072 Using a recent manufacture dvd player would be the way to go with the Bel Canto or the Benchmark. The reason why is that many recent dvd players will output a 96k signal. You must check the owner's manual of the player or go through the menu set-u... | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used I'll probably catch alot of flak on this but I dumped my Sennheiser HD600 for the Koss ESP/950 and never looked back. To my ears, there was no comparison; the low distortion and low coloration of the Koss made the Senn sound crude in comparison.In... | |
| Tuners: late 80's Sony Es, Pioneer elite,etc.... Onkyo T-9090 Mk.II. No tuning"knob" though. | |
| Review: Yamaha S1500 universal disc player CD Player A few months after that last post, the S1500 began to develop some video mistracking problems. Sometimes it would skip tracks or freeze up. In June the unit went totally down; distorted picture, complete loss of sound through the analog outputs. S... | |
| Why don't kids nowadays know about Jazz and classi Because the corporate powers that control the media and bought politicans with cash payoffs decided in the early 80's to "dumb down" the entire US population.By introducing "info-tainment" and confusing fact with fiction (a specialty of the curren... | |
| Soundcraftsmen Components Soundcraftsmen heyday was the mid 70's to mid 80's. They specialized in equalizers which were all the rage back then.I owned the PE2217R pre-amp/equalizer which was in J.Gordon Holt's Stereophile list of recommended components. I had the piece for... |