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Who Do You Credit For Getting You Into This Hobby? Stanely Clarke - Working in an early warehouse concept store (Standard Sales) when I was 16, they had a small room off the main showroom floor with stereo equipment. I was always . . .	61
First round of auditions disappointing I agree that the only way to best determine whether a speaker will work for an individual, is for that individual to get the speaker in their own environment. Unfortunately, it's . . .	50
Mainstream reviews-why so few? I thought for years that high-end audio as a hobby was dieing a slow, painful death. I entered the hobby 28 years ago working at a place called Standard Sales, where they had what. . .	44
CES / THE Show Tvad, unfortunately, I didn't listen to the Acapalla system, but it's priced way out of my league unfortunately, as is the Avantgarde. Too bad Opera-Consonance didn't have their M. . .	35
Build my own speakers? I just completed building my own loudspeakers about 2 months ago...I'm still tweaking them, but even in their current state, I like them better than anything I've heard over the . . .	32
Integrated Tube Amplifier for First Timer? Thanks everyone! I guess I should have mentioned that a remote is mandatory!!! I've been walking back and forth, turning the volume up and down, for 20 years now... I definitely. . .	22
Need help generating a short list Sorry, I guess this is a similar question, and I apologize for not clarifying my intentions with this new post, as I had intended to take a different direction with this. . . .	22
Transitioning from Tubes back to SS Thanks everyone.... My last set-up was a Parasound A-21 and a Sonic Frontiers SFL-1 (tube hybrid), which I originally had powering Von Schweikert VR-4's. Many moons ago, I sold. . .	19
Question about Druids Six months to break a speaker in? I think it's the users ears that are being "broken in".... My position on this has always been that the longer the "required . . .	18
Monitors vs. Floorstanders - What an eye opener Thanks everyone..... Indeed, you can tell that something's missing, but what's there is very revealing and satisfying. The lower registers of a piano might be light, but the . . .	17
Very small bookshelf speakers / system Thanks everyone...... Has anyone had an opportunity to listen to the new JVC mini "executive" system that has the wood-cone drivers? I thought of getting a DVD receiver. . .	15
Tube Integrated - Narrowed down to 4 - Help pls Thanks everyone..... Something that's interesting, is some folks get fast/tight bass out of the SLI80, and some get slow/flabby bass.....Funny thing is, the slow bass is coming . . .	13
Second round of auditions under my belt I agree 100% that room placment and associated equipment have a huge impact, however I have two comments: 1. You would hope that a dealer would do his best to make sure systems . . .	13
Upgrade Von Schweikert VR-4 to Dunlavy SC-IV? Thanks everyone.... I listened to the Aerial 10T's, and they were on my original short list when I bought the VR-4's. I liked them nearly as much, if not the same as the Dunlavy'. . .	13
Von Schweikert Audio VR-4 Agreed. I owned the original version for many, many years and thoroughly enjoyed them. The only drawback is they are little light in the midbass, and lack that percusssive power . . .	11
Excessive Midrange Energy? Thanks for the input. I strongly suspected the CD player was not the issue. Both the speakers and Cary SLI-80 are new to the system. I originally powered the speakers with a . . .	8
Any Opera Consonance M15 owners out there? Did you happen to listen to the M12 while you were there? I read the review on Soundstage that likens them to the Altec 19. I wonder if the M12 sound is similar to the M15, with . . .	6
Power on tube amp without tubes? No, I'm not joking....I did check the batteries of course, and actually replaced them with new batteries....I also checked to make certain the remote was "sending" by . . .	6