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[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Tiger-Ryan-Adams/dp/B000P29B1W/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1229025663&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: Easy Tiger: Ryan Adams: Music[/ame] you mean you quit reading it or you read through it and enjoyed it? nice!

so last night i moved most of my gear into my much larger den. katow! sounds great. all the furniture must help with the bass and dynamics. if i can make it work space wise i might keep it in there.

are there any real advantages of the $2000 monoblocks over the $1500 stereo? is it a $500 advantage?

whose up for a group buy on that lot of 10 blackbooks? some nice deals on that page.

good to hear they have no less then three different options for attaching a penis to a female doll. i certainly don't expect to see that option on any future headroom products, flagship or not.

pretty sure there is a rega baerwald arc protractor on vinylengine.com. i love my digital stylus pressure gauge, but recently its batteries died and i went back to my manual shure gauge. it works fine, just a bit more tedious.

true, plus the earbuds in general were a fail.

maggies! now I really want to hear some.

good recommendation. if you don't want to mess with a LOMC for your first cart, also consider the AT440MLa. Everytime I run this cart it never fails to impress me at how little it does wrong. Also its higher output will make it easier to run with a standard Bugle, and in general it will be compatible with more phonos then the DL-103 since its an MM and runs well loaded at 47K. The DL-103 is my cart, and I don't want to dissuade you from using it, but running an MC as a first cart can be a pain in the ass when it comes to getting enough gain, step up transformers, or finding the right loading for your setup (I like mine at 100 ohms, others prefer as high as 1,000ohms). The main reason to buy a Rega table is for the arm, but the price you paid for just the table is fine. An RB300 or even an RB250 is what you want. But I've never heard a Rega table, just regurgitating things I've heard about them.

Since they are all pre-orders, and since acoustic sounds sucks when it comes to release dates, I'll wait until its actually in stock and on sale. This is one thing I really love about Apple. They completely hide a product, having everybody scrabbling onto every leak they can, building hype, and then bam, when they announce it they release it. fans go crazy and just throw their money in the air like quagmire at the strip club.

yeah i could buy a lot of actual jazz for that kind of money. or one hoffman 45. great shirts though, I love the monk 5x5.

jacob's basement. honestly so long as they have an adjustable headband and don't try to go for a one-size-fits-all-except-pj-k701 thing I'll probably end up screaming its praises from the rooftops.

yeah i'll be getting the davis and evans boxes. good stuff.

cheap bass traps. SH Forums - View Single Post - Monitors for 10 x 13ft room, ~$1500 with stands

the CD credits Tony Dawsey, but Diament claims he did the mastering. SH Forums - View Single Post - NIN - Pretty Hate Machine, different masterings?

nah, he didn't do "heartbreaker", its just my other reference recording. He did do the Def Jam Slayer stuff and the original TVT Pretty Hate Machine.

its hard for me not to listen to the guy who mastered the atco japan genesis "a trick of the tail". it and the MFSL Heartbreaker are generally my reference discs.

let me also say that I am a basshead as well. I crave impactful, deep bass, not a floppy sloppy mess. Today I tried removing the subwoofer and moving my listening postion 5 ft from the back wall (38% of the rooms length). So at this point I was a few feet from my speakers, truly "near field". Didn't like what I was hearing, things got to bright and wearisome. I achieved much better results by moving my seat back to a foot or two from the back wall, bringing the sub back in, and plugging the ports with socks. I inched up the sub crossover a little and things were sounding nice. The bass coming from the sub sounds good, and I've eliminated some of the bass coming from the 22L, which sounded bad. I'm willing to try the Diament suggested cardboard boxes full of crumpled newspaper in the corners method, just need to get the supplies and the time.

sweet, i'll go with that and give it a shot.

define nearfield then, because some would already describe my current listeninh distance of 7ft as nearfield.

but really the whole idea of a smaller speaker is that a smaller enclosure moves less air, so less opportunity for boominess.

ok ok, i'll try room treatments! geez, you and barry diament. next thing you'll be pushing mmg's and outlaw amps on me.

i bet mike gets an amp!

Hi All- I've been using the following setup in a 10 x 13ft room now for the past several months: Quad 22L Cambridge Audio 840A Cambridge Audio 840C Technics SL1200MK2 Cartridges used include DL-103, AT440MLa, KAB/Ortofon ProS30 Phono's used include Hagerman Bugle (60db gain 100 ohm loading for DL-103) and Bottlehead Seduction (for MM) SVS 20-39 PCi Cylinder Subwoofer Blue Jeans LC-1 interconnects I only recently added the subwoofer to combat bass issues I was having due to what I guess is room compression. The bass from the 22L floorstanders has always been a bit boomy and unsatisfying in the lower regions. Adding the SVS and keeping the crossover at 40hz did worlds for adding to bass extension, but I'm still having boomy bass issues, no matter where I place the 22L in the room. I'm finally accepting that a floorstander just won't work in a room this small. So rather then fighting it by spending on room treatments, I'm considering just selling the 22Ls and going with a stand mounted monitor more appropriate for near field listening. I'd rather have a speaker that does well closer to the back wall, but if its something I have to pull out thats fine, as long as it somehow works in my 10 x 13 ft room. I plan on keeping the SVS to mate with the monitors. The 840A does 120W into 8ohms and 200W into 4ohms. Price range is ~$1500 with stands, cheaper is better, though I'm willing to stretch the dollar for great deals. I am fine with buying used. I've been doing a lot of searching and have plumbed through many older threads, coming up with this rough list of options, which I admit stray wildly in price: Epos M5 Green Mountain Europa Quad 12L Harbeth HL-P3 series Magical, accurate midrange and non-fatiguing treble are crucial. I listen to a lot of rock and a lot of jazz. I get a kick out of nice soundstage and imaging when listening to jazz, with rock I love rich and pure male vocals and some guitar crunch. I'm at the beginning of this journey, so any advice or recommendations you can give would be appreciated. Please feel free to throw out any other small speaker names that I can research. Thanks! Addendum: I posted this identical post over at AA and the Paradigm Signature S2 v.2 and Energy RC10 were also recommended to me.

SL customer service update: Sent in my faulty Domkirke vinyl a month ago, still no communication from SL, no new vinyl, and no t-shirt that was supposed to be included in my order. Also no Boris LP that I paid for last January and never received. I'm picturing their customer service department as this one guy in a sweaty Sabbath t-shirt laying under his desk with a needle sticking out of his arm. I'm thinking in the future I'll avoid buying direct from SL and just go through a retailer instead.