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  1. A. Vivaldi

    Useless headphone jacks in receivers

    Why do A/V companies continue to waste their time and my money putting headphone jacks on the front of their receivers? Every amp I've ever owned or listened to, whether it was hi-end or mass market, all seem to have one thing in common...their headphone inputs always sound like total crap...
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    What are your opinions on PSB speakers?

    I was on PSB's website and was surpised to find them so truthful about their speakers. In their FAQ section, they actually stated that bi-wiring probably wouldn't make any noticable difference in sound quality and that their speakers did not need to be broken in and should sound great right out...
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    Would speaker stands help my situation?

    I agree with you that speakers sound better higher up, as I've done this in the past with some towers I used to have. The problem now is I have bookshelfs and I don't really have anything high enough that's heavy and/or solid to put them on. Plus, I'm resting the speakers on top of these...
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    Would speaker stands help my situation?

    I have a small room and have had problems in the past with boomy muffled bass so I went with smaller bookshelf speakers, which I have resting on isolation cones on top of rather large solid oak CD cubes. This seems to have solved my problems and I'm getting pretty good sound now. However, the...
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    Any big Rolling Stones fans out there?

    I've never really got into the Stones much in the past, and in my quest to start exploring some more basic Rock n' Roll, I've decided to give it a go. One of my questions is which of the current remastered CD versions should I go with, the U.S. or U.K.? My other question has to do with the...
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    Editorial: Drugs, Sex & Violence in the Movies

    <font color='#000000'>Interesting technology, but I'd avoid the problem all together and not allow the offensive films into the house in the first place. If certain films are bad enough for me to want to delete certain scenes, then I don't need to be financially supporting them in any way.</font>
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    This is literal snake oil!!!

    <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td> <font color='#000000'>This guy actually claims that this stuff will make CD superior to SACD! How can he say that when there is nothing superior to SACD/DVD-A to compare it to? What a load!!! Even the worst...
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    This is literal snake oil!!!

    <font color='#000000'>A few of the deceived over at that site were actually interested in this stuff! One even told me I was &quot;disrespectful&quot; for making fun of Rick's fraudulent claims. Some said in a nice way that his claims &quot;didn't make any sense&quot;, and one guy told me $25...
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    GAS Prices

    <font color='#000000'>I'll probably get killed for saying this, but I don't think paying $1.80 or even $2.00 is unreasonable. We pay more for bottled water for Pete's sake! We are one of the few countries who pay such cheap gas prices. The average in Europe is around $3 or $4.00 a gallon. Do I...
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    This is literal snake oil!!!

    <font color='#000000'>I picked up this nonsense posted on a classical music website, from a guy named &quot;Rick&quot;. This is literal snake oil, bottle and all!<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">CD tweaks have...
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    DVD/Audio vs SACD

    <font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td> While I am in full agreement with you regarding MP3, just what is the problem with existing CD other than it is not multichannel?  I hear alot of complaints about the CD format, but...
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    Questions about "digital" LPs

    <font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I am an avid record collector and have a very large collection of pristine analogue records, some 12&quot; 45's, lots of 1/2 mastered records, and a large...
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    Questions about "digital" LPs

    <font color='#000000'>Hey! What happened to my posts? I guess I'll have to repeat myself. I just wanted to thank Rip for his beautiful essay on analog/digital, but I already did have a little knowledge between the differences. I was just confused on how something could kinda be both digital and...
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    DVD/Audio vs SACD

    <font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td> Absolutly agreed. I was wondering what was up with Barnes & Noble anyway. Not only do they have no SACDs/DVD-As to think of, they also don't have many of the newer classical titles that...
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    Some big blunders in Saving Private Ryan.

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    Questions about "digital" LPs

    <font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Now, tell me: what the he** am I doing here at 3:15 am...? </td></tr></table>I know the insomnia bit very well Rip ol' buddy! My last post was directed at...
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    Questions about "digital" LPs

    <font color='#000000'>Yes, but what makes a recording truly digital in the first place? Just the fact that there's no physical contact of any kind? Is that what it's all about? I remember those 1/2 speed masters you wrote about now. They were mostly put out by Columbia, and a few other...
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    Editorial: The State of the "Art" - Part One

    <font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A pointless diatribe. Perhaps he's counting on the same phenomenon to inure us to the apathetic acceptance of bad writing. &nbsp;There's an unfortunate...
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    Editorial: The State of the "Art" - Part One

    <font color='#000000'>&quot;There may be a surfeit of bad art, but adding to that with bad criticism is hardly constructive.  Popular art by it's very nature is bad:  as evidence, just look at the work of Andy Warhol.  A mediocre &quot;talent&quot; at best, yet he became an icon by pandering to...
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    Editorial: The State of the "Art" - Part One

    <font color='#000000'>I think the state of abstract or contemporary art such as sculpture, painting, etc., is a lot better off today than the state of the musical arts, other than the media forced pop/culture aspect. All one has to do is look at a painting and they can get it's full impact and...
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