truemaineiac
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| B&W 800 N & D Series - General Advice Needed If you read many of the B&W threads they take on the same trajectory as yours, people upgrading up the line chasing a performance level that they find hard to achieve. Before upgrading to anymore B&Ws I would recommend listening to many ot... | |
| IMAX Oblivion -my take take on the experience It would seem one with your predilection would have to watch the movie twice, once for the technical aspects and a second time for the story, plot, etc. Or maybe it might be thrice?As far as IMAX, I recently saw the latest Star Trek and it was gre... | |
| Tube amp down, need guidance from the experienced The Gold Lion Genelex reissues are my favorite kt88, excellent at everything. | |
| Need suggestions replacing my receiver I agree with the subwoofer comment above. I recently got the top model Denon receiver for my HT, the 4520 and it works very well and I am happy with my purchase. There a couple of dealers that have good prices on new units. I have come to believe ... | |
| Tube amp down, need guidance from the experienced Ah, the worry of a tube amp owner, your days of carefree listening are over when you get a tube amp. Anyway, I had a vac avatar super that used kt88 and I have had a tube go bad and take out the resistor along with it as hi-fi geek mentions and I ... | |
| EASY SET UP ALL IN ONE RECIEVER EXIST? Most HT receivers now come with very good software that make setting them up very easy through an on-screen menu with a few selections for configuration. I also like the ones with built in audessy room correction where you put an included mic in t... | |
| New tv? I was in similar situation and got a panasonic 60" (GT) plasma from Magnolia to replace my very nice but old yet very well regarded Philips 50" and I could not be happier with it. Panasonic plasmas are great. | |
| Retip for zyx R, the basic economic options are $3K for new ZYX Airy3, so trade-in is $2100 (retail x 70%), $300 re-tip ZYX see how it plays, or discount on universe from $5K or so. It would seem worth the risk to spend $300 to see how the re-tip might sound re... | |
| Retip for zyx I understand that it will not be exactly a ZYX but I am curious if others have tried a soundsmith or other re-tip and what they experienced. | |
| IS IT THE TIME OF YEAR - OR MY SPEAKERS? The time required to sell any item is most related to the offer price. | |
| Bass leaves after amp warms up? Is there any correlation for time of day? Maybe there is a difference in the power quality feed into your premise based on something else happening around your local grid? A long shot I know. Since you have controlled for so many elements, the mos... | |
| Best Rock Song Of ALL TIME? Aerosmith Dream On, written by a 17 year old Steven Tyler in New Hampshire. | |
| I am having BIG problems with my ARCAM AV-888 I would try a factory reset. | |
| Musical Fidelity A 3.2 current market value??? It still baffles me that these threads are green-lit when we have a paid bluebook service. I wouldn't deal with anyone with that type of feedback either. He did say he "beleives" the original price was 1799, so he has maintained plausible deniabil... | |
| Advice for a two channel amp $1K for amp and turntable? So the integrated amp has to have a phono stage too? |