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| Best budget speakers for near-field/small space I've had a wonderful experience with the Rega R1 as nearfield desk monitors. You can them pick up for under $400 here on the 'gon pretty often. Tremendous bang-for-the-buck, great with tubes, fantastic at low listening levels. Check the many revie... | |
| Is it OK to place speakers behind me ? excellent info, Al -- thank you! I came to the same general, but by no means as empirical, conclusion last night by spinning my listening chair around a couple of times. I wouldn't have had the language to describe it other than saying I certainly... | |
| Is it OK to place speakers behind me ? unsound; no, I don't...but if I did, I'd still hear the concert just as coherently, wouldn't I? | |
| sorting MP3 and ALAC m4a files in library both you guys, great advice -- thank you. I didn't think I'd need to do this, actually...but sure enough, most (but interestingly, not all - what's up with that?) of my 192kps MP3s sound horrible compared with the lossless files. | |
| sorting MP3 and ALAC m4a files in library hello Hello (a fine song by Mexico 70, btw);Thank you! I am indeed using iTunes to rip (an ocean of Apple products are a side-effect of my line of work), but because the collection's footprint is so large (~200gig), the files themselves live only ... | |
| Sooloos vs. Sonos I don't have any experience with the Squeezebox (other than fiddling with it for a grand total of maybe 15min), but anecdotally, I do have three SqB early-adopter friends who eventually abandoned SqB for Sonos systems. None of them did so for 'aud... | |
| Sooloos vs. Sonos Error alert: I meant to type that the Sonos is the only source I plan on using. | |
| Sooloos vs. Sonos hi Wsomers,Thanks -- I'm enjoying it very much. I should say that my using ~2k CDP players as a benchmark isn't definitive by any means. I have little experience with more expensive CDPs, and those which I have heard have been bolted into much muc... | |
| Sooloos vs. Sonos It's a 2TB 'LaCie 2big Network 2' (what a loopy name) drive, and so far so good. No latency that I can detect, no performance issues with the array (knock wood), and a very simple plug-and-play installation. It's the best of the NAS devices I've u... | |
| Sooloos vs. Sonos I can speak to option 2, and you're fine with FLAC there. I went with Sonos for exactly the reasons you mention - that it's modular, expandable, and can be improved incrementally as I need to, in the zones where it matters.In my main system, I'm u... | |
| Which artists' music do you buy without audition Matthew Sweet, Bowie, Devo, Gabriel, Byrne, Eno, TMBG, Fountains of Wayne, Weezer, Bad Religion, Cracker, Dandy Warhols, Fastball, Black Francis, Hold Steady, Bob Mould, POTUS, Rundgren, XTC...I lightly audition stuff that's new to me. But I trust... | |
| Sooloos vs. Sonos Are you wedded to a particular file format? | |
| what was your wedding song? Back at you Marty - nice to see Don Dixon getting some props here too. A favorite producer of mine. | |
| what was your wedding song? castles in the air by hoodoo gurus. | |
| Atma Sphere deserves praise well...so does Angelina Jolie, but since I'm not going to have either of them, it's kind of academic. |