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| What Tube Amp Looks Coolest? You want to see a gorgeous amp? Take a peek a a Tenor 75WI all lit up late at night with those 20 tubes a glowing. It just don't get no prettier than that(IMHO). | |
| And What Did You Get Your Wife For Christmas? Slipknot, I was just bustin' your chops. God only knows the women in our lives put up with an awful lot. I'd have a very hard time being married to me too. Ironically, I vaguely remember my wife saying "go on honey, buy that big old expensive pair... | |
| And What Did You Get Your Wife For Christmas? You guys just don't get it. Never, ever concede or you'll end up living with your old equipment. Most women don't have the same inclination to upgrade equipment as most of us men do. Slipknot, now look what you have...a beautiful new gourmet kitch... | |
| Sonic Differences Between 2-Way and 3-Way Speakers I'm no engineer, but when additional drivers are are utilized, my understanding is that crossovers become more numerous and complex. The whole trick to speaker design is to ultimately fool us into believing that only one driver is being used. I th... | |
| Why I am Selling You know the reason why I'm selling...it's because the bastard is broken and there's no one in the audiophile community that could possibly fix it for less than it originally retailed for. I would have laid it off on some naive, unsuspecting Audio... | |
| Speaker Cable for Avalon Eidolons I used Tara The Ones cables with a Rowland 8TiHC and Avalon Opus for about a year. I bought them based on a recommendation from the Avalon dealer who I bought my Opus from. They are about as neutral as any cable I used. Actually the same dealer fe... | |
| do you have a sperate audio and HT system? I've owned a two channel system of one kind or another for a long time. I'm fortunate that I have enough room to be able to maintain two separate systems. Home theater for me is entertainment and it's fun to enjoy surround sound with a well filmed... | |
| Recommended Carrier for Speaker Shipments I've had two different pairs of Avalon speakers shipped from California and Denver to South Carolina and chose AIT(based outside Denver I think) because they were the chosen carrier of Avalon to ship their speakers. I had bought one pair from a Au... | |
| All time classics? Your top 3 or 4? (1)Linn LP-12(2)Dalquist DQ-10(3)Spectral DMC-10(4)Snell AIII(5)Koetsu Rosewood(6)Bedini 25/25 1 MEGAll of the above set the standards for their time or their respective categories(IMHO). | |
| What did you replace your DQ-10's with? Many, many moons ago, after having modified my DQ-10s with a DIY kit that was sold back in the late 70s-early 80s, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a pair of Snell AIIIs. As good as the Dalquist were back then, I thought that the craftsmanship... | |
| Buying from other countries? I've bought and sold out of the country numerous times over the last couple of years with much success. It's always nice to be dealing with another member who has great feedback that is relatively current. One can always contact the feedback sourc... | |
| How do YOU justify this hobby? It's hard to justify something you love without someone else feeling the same way you do. I just keep telling myself, and I really don't think you have to justify it to anyone else, that I could be spending money on many other wasteful things and ... | |
| Would you cancel 3,250 deal cause 16 short? I work hard for my money as all of you do, but getting all pissy over 16 bucks is infantile. If I had been the seller, I would have shipped the cables with a note explaining that I was shorted $16 and would the buyer, as a gentleman, be willing to... | |
| Is a offer of -20 percent on an OBO ad insulting? It doesn't take alot to be polite. OBO is just that. Your offer may not be his best, but if you're a serious buyer, if he wasn't willing to accept an offer then he should have put firm or courteously declined and counter offered. Many times I've b... | |
| Review: Von Schweikert Audio VR7-HSE Speaker Now I must admit that since Audiogon has begun permitting its' members the task of reviewing equipment, there was hardly a time that I read many of the reviews from start to finish. That's not to say that others haven't spent a good bit of time an... |