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| Where are the female Audiophiles? Nice one, Stevecham. Thanks to you and your wife. Makes the M-F pairing seem very appropriate. More active male swaps power cord, more passive wife appreciates artistic result; the world is a better place.One could go on with such a scenario. Emot... | |
| life without audio dealers Mrtennis:if dealers were order takers and could obtain any product a customer wants without voicing an opinion, customers would be better off.Audiokinesis:So one of the roles I see dealers playing is assisting the audiophile in that journey of sel... | |
| life without audio dealers Just to be ornery with Mrtennis ;o) I'll suggest from my experience that you _can_ "extrapolate" a dealer's demo to your own system successfully. It worked for me when I chose the monitors for my bedroom system, using none of the same upstream com... | |
| Room Treatments - Where to learn more? Rives Audio resources page:http://www.rivesaudio.com/resources/links/frame.htmlJon Risch's acoustic treatments pages:http://www.geocities.com/jonrisch/a.htmHappy Christmas! | |
| Where are the female Audiophiles? Sweetmamma31, thanks for your response. Although I appreciated the new (to me) facts in Albert Porter's post, yours is the only one I can find so far which actually responded directly to the question in the OP's title.Women are smarter, women don'... | |
| subs and small room Athipaul, I may have this wrong, but doesn't frequency doubling occur with room modes? That is, a given mode will be excited by a wave at half its length? Thanks for any help with this. | |
| Incorporate Dynacos into my system, or sell them? Gee, why don't you try the Dynas out and see what they sound like? You have decent gear to compare with.Cult and buzz are all very well but if you actually have them more or less to hand... you can let us know your take on them! | |
| Poor Man's Ferrari? When upgrading, it is a good idea to seek long-term happiness by taking as big a step as you can. However I agree with Elizabeth that in your case you don't have to look at 'attainable-but-stretching-it', especially if it means getting lucky with ... | |
| New CD Player for Headphones Do you need a small-format player? I have a JAS Audio Musik 1.2 tube player that I like very well, but it is 17 inches wide. That may be too wide for your desk.Retail on this player is about $1200, which puts it at the same level as a Shanling CD-... | |
| bi-wire speaker cables with single wire spkeakers You can reterminate the cables at the speaker end, using new spades and joining the conductors at the spade. That would effectively convert your biwire cables to single-wire ones.If you don't want to do the retermination, you can just connect two ... | |
| Best sounding solution for Ipod DAC = digital-to-analog converter.The iPod has one of these inside it already. The iPod's DAC takes the digital signal from the iPod's storage (hard disc or RAM) and converts it into an analog signal which can be sent to headphones.A good DAC is h... | |
| Need some $500 & under Amp recommendations Back in the 70s I used to demo the best speakers in the store using Crown amplification--the IC150 preamp and the DC300 amp. If that's what your father is offering you, I personally would not go for them. It was a long time ago, but I do not remem... | |
| Need some $500 & under Amp recommendations This is just my take on the question, but IMO vintage gear is only a good idea if you are willing to get into the nuts and bolts, and also the history, of the hobby.You need to know nuts and bolts, and a *good* technician, because older gear needs... | |
| Need some $500 & under Amp recommendations To me, the NAD C320BEE defines entry-level. It (and probably the 325) is very good-sounding for the money and you can get one for well under your budget. You can tweak it with better-quality preamp jumpers and antivibration feet from Bright Star o... | |
| A simple request---Please pack audio gear well. That's a great post Blindjim. Some info in it you rarely hear. Thanks for taking the time. |