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| How well respected our EAR products Interesting that GSM 18439 should mention an EAR cd player that would not read cd's.My EAR Acute spent several stays with the talented EAR tech Mitch Singerman.The player would not read certain discs,usually imports.Mitch lost some brain cells try... | |
| How NOT to sell an item on Audiogon "This won't last long".... After the ad has run three times. " Local pickup only "............. Drive to the spot in the woods where they thought the Lindberg baby was. Leave the the cash under a stone and your trunk open. When you return your 12,... | |
| Advice on buying a used speaker up to 3k My three grand...I would wait in the weeds for a great 6-7 grand speaker used that fits my specificities.According to research done by yours truly, the higher new purchase price of the audio equipment,the less it has been used,hence the better dea... | |
| Advice on buying a used speaker up to 3k Others may disagree,but I know that amp and my experience is that I would look to at least 94 db's.Curious as to what other might say as I now have the Pass 30.8. Nice pair of scratch and dent Von Schweikert VR-5 HSE, a little over 3,000 for sale ... | |
| Anyone receive Focal Utopia speakers with defects? One thing that troubles me about this(actually there are several things that trouble me)is that you mention "cardboard"...I have to believe that these speakers must have originally shipped in wooden crates with a protective mold to insulate the sp... | |
| shipping vinyl Welcome to the real world of shipping records...You will need a strong and sturdy outside box,newspaper or bubble wrap,then records packed well in interior box.Ship media mail USPS fully insured.I have shipped lots of records this way and it is th... | |
| Why are records still warped? There are no propitious winds blowing for new vinyl.A recent purchase of a half dozen Music Matters Blue Note 45 rpm lps found one of the six warped,unacceptable and unplayable.The return process is a well known PITA.Exchange of emails,reason for ... | |
| Why are records still warped? After reading this I thought I would try to contact someone really smart for the answer,so I emailed Stephen Hawking.He graciously offered a prompt reply..."If I would not have wasted so much time on all that "black hole" stuff I would have answer... | |
| Another UPS Horror Story "What has brown done for you?" have not heard that one lately,should be "What has brown done TO you" but that is a dead horse that is not going to get up and trot. First thing,at the sign of significant damage,as in this case,the package should be... | |
| Parasound halo JC2 what a joke I purchased a demo Parasound CD1 from Audio Advisor about six months ago.One day I turn it on and there is no right channel.Of course I am more than a little upset and disappointed,but I am cool and call AA and ask them about the warranty and they... | |
| Dolo Coker Dolo made four lp's in the 70's for Xanadu Records and appeared on several others for that label.Two of his lps were collected on a cd under Art Pepper and Blue Mitchell's names for a foreign label.That music resonates deeply with me as I heard hi... | |
| Traveling never going to happen??? need advice I would get some quotes from U SHIP....BUT...I would certainly make sure they were protected.You might get them safely shipped for around 300.00 or less as they just would not take up much room in a shippers truck.Once you start getting quotes you... | |
| Higher resolution Jazz Pity that "Jazz at the Pawnshop" performance turned out like grandma's jello mold.Arne Domnerus (alto saxophone) and Bengt Hallberg (piano) are so much better than that recording portrays. Both were leading lights of Swedish Jazz since the 50's.Do... | |
| Higher resolution Jazz Look for the Concord recordings made at Penny Lane studios in NYC with Ed Trabanco as engineer.There was a run of a few years that Concord did most of their NYC based recordings with this studio and this engineer. Sensational,organic,living,breath... | |
| Higher resolution Jazz "Older Jazz recordings are of poor quality".......? In the 1950 film "Sunset Blvd." Struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis meets the former silent film star Norma Desmond,"you used to be big". Desmond replies,"I am BIG,it's the PICTURES that got small... |