sequimjim

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Walmart, 97 cents, for Vibration Control
If I shake my speaker wire, will it make a bad sound come out of my speakers like a not so micro vibration?  
More expensive = better?
At some point some audio equipment became either Art, Or a fashon statement, or both. Your pretty $6000 speaker wire sure sounds nice. I'm sure glad I went to school to learn about such things.   
Do speaker wires have to be the same length for each speaker?
Ohm's Law is a handy tool. Learn a little about basic electricity. People who would pay over $50 for 20' of speaker wire are buying a fashon designers idea or a name that says I'm buying the best because it has "your name here" on it. My system so... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Welcome, Santana 1973  
Bought the wrong subwoofer!
Personally, I've never cared for sub's. I prefer big that don't need a sub. There is no substitute for big.   
What to do? I want a new amplifier to make my Dynaudio Contours to "sing"
I have some AB International 400's or a 600 or 600a you can buy and will have all the clean power you need for less than $450 + shipping. Highly under rated industrial Amp's. (Made in USA) Jim  
Replacement for current speakers suggestions
Keep what you have.  
Recommend Affordable Integrated Amps (Solid State or Tube)
Find something good on eBay from the 70's for a few hundred dollars and have the old capacitors replaced. Spend the rest of your thousands of dollars on your wife. 
Inexpensive tablet well suited as a control point for my streamers, including Sony
I bought a Chromebook dedicated to stream video  for my living room surround sound  setup. It was around $150.00 and works good. no hard drive so no possibility of a virus. 
Can you live with your current speaker until you die?
Yes! In 1976 I built a pair of SpeakerLab Super K's using plans I bought from Speakerlab. I still have the plans. I purchased the raw components from them and used my Dads garage and table saw to build the bass horns and top units that house the m... 
Are Carver Preamps Any Good?
I"ve had a Carver C2 Preamp for many years. It's probably the more bare bones of the preamps they ever made. Very plain and simple and clean. If one preamp sounds different than another it would be because one or the other is adding something to c...