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| glam rock fans? Check out any and all Slade collections, but I personally recommend "Slayed" as their best album. There are also some great CD comps that collect the more obscure stuff. Two to check out are called "Velvet Tinmine" and "GlitterBest"-Jake | |
| Cats and audiophiles Three cats here, but ALL of them are on double secret probation right now due to some holes being put into a pair of grill covers for the Sonus Faber Electa Amator II's that I used to own.Someday they might be allowed back into the listening room,... | |
| What is a "SHOTGUN" speaker cable?? So let me see if I have this right. If I was just hooking up one channel, this is what I would be faced with:Shotgun = A strand of wire that terminates into 4 spades/bananas on the amp side and then 4 spades/bananas on the speaker side?Traditional... | |
| Need to re-discover analog - please help Wow, now I kinda am sorry I asked. What a royal pain in the ass! And yeah, I hear you with wanting to tear your hair out after putting the cash down, waiting, and then doing the setup as best you can; only to find that the stumbling blocks are of ... | |
| Wilson Sophia Funny, my gf also declared that the WP7's look like "trash cans", but that the Sophias look "less trash-canny". These women must have all been watching the same TV design show or something.Anyways, I have never heard the Sophias, but wholeheartedl... | |
| Need to re-discover analog - please help Ok, I have just finished reading this thread from top to bottom and it has been a helluva story, but what gives? We need a follow-up!!!As a digital guy who is eager to get rolling into the vinyl club, this story was made for somebody like me. A bu... | |
| San Francisco Bay Area Audio Society So whats going on with the audiophile groups (BAAA and BAAS) here in the Bay Area these days?I've made a few deals with some local Audiogoners and kept in touch with them. It would be cool to hear some of my gear on different systems, and dont min... | |
| Anybody ever hear Alon Exoticas? I recently picked up a set of these speakers via Audiogon and I must say that they are a dramatic improvement over my Sonus Faber Electa Amator II's.From what I understand, Carl M. designed these (and had them in production) before the Grand Refer... | |
| Denon 3910 vs Marantz Dv 9500... I did a demo A-B comparison of the Marantz 9500 ($2000) vs the 2-channel Marantz SA-11 ($3500) with Redbook and SACD's and the differences were very very minute. This was on an ultra revealing high end system made up of Burmeister amplification an... | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood A couple of additions to this thread:1. In Sixteen Candles, when panning over Jake's house after the big party has occured, you can see a Nakimichi Dragon malfunctioning.2. In the first Punisher movie (with Dolph Lungren) you can see, once again, ... | |
| Sonus Faber Sound? I owned the Electa Amator II's for over three years and just sold them. I miss them already.If you are looking for the last bit of detail, take a pass on Sonus Faber (with the exception of the Homage line). Value for money though, this is an extre... | |
| Fake plants behind speakers a good idea? Funny that this thread topic just came up.A week ago I bought a pair of speakers and set them in the same place as the old pair of speakers that they replaced. Sure, I adjusted them a few inches. A little toe-in here, an inch or two forward there,... | |
| Best compression format for PC Jukebox Thanks Edesilva, I appreciate the advice.Last night I did some critical listening with my latest PC audio toy, a Wavelength Brick. Doing some A-B comparisons with a Lucinda Williams redbook CD on the latest Marantz universal player (DV7600) as my ... | |
| Best compression format for PC Jukebox So am I correct in understanding that ripping a CD on iTunes in Apple Lossless compresses the file size but in no way effects the sound for playback? Does ripping it into a WAV file do the same thing?Leaving something like EAC out of the equation ... |