Hello,

I recently just bought my first pair of good loud speakers in the B&w 683's. These are a huge step up from my previous cheap Klipsch bookshelfs. Before I purchased the system I kind of went the backwards way about it and purchased all the extra source equipment knowing that one day it would be for a great pair of speakers. Just to give you an idea I currently have for music:

Onkyo TX-SR707
Pro-Ject DebutIII
Oppo BDP-83

now this system is going to double as my television system so would also have:
Tivo Premier
Xbox360
PS3

and only $8000 in standard mode

http://www.coconut-audio.com/groundhanger.htm

You guys in Nevada got some major problems with voting. It's getting hilarious. Free food? Gift Cards? Ballots already marked for Reid? Technicians for voting machines are members of the Service Employees International Union? How far can this plane fly on just one engine? Straight to the scene of the crash.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that this thing is going to be a total disaster. Reid needs to be put on suicide watch by the time this is done. Right next door to Charlie Sheen.

How will the music industry business model change with high resolution downloads?

If one can pay a one time fee to download a high resolution .flac file that's equivalent to the original master onto their PC, make as many copies as they like to send to friends, or perhaps even sell on the black market, how will the music industry sustain itself?

Won't artists and recording producers simply stop making new music albums if the profit margin becomes to small to make a fair profit?

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I just want to give public props to Robert Baird for his wonderful interview with Manfred Eicher. Eicher and ECM have brought me so much of the music that means the most to me. Eicher's taste in music has literaly changed my life. Great choice for an interview Robert, and well done!

Checkout this item up for bid:

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/auc.pl?accsrack&1288669870&1288059046

This device is to be placed on top of the chassis which will transform resonances into friction and heat.

A short while ago I stumbled across an article about something called a "House Curve." To put it briefly, a house curve is an equalization contour which achieves "perceived flat response as opposed to measured flat response."

http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/rew-forum/96-house-curve-what-why-you-need-how-do.html

As a prospective owner of a pair of these, I was very interested in seeing that the V 1.5 were reviewed so favorably by JM and that they are the best speaker he's heard under $10K as well as a Class A - Restricted LF choice.

That said, there are only a couple of paragraphs about the performance of the speakers prior to JM adding $8.5K worth of interconnects and speaker cables to his system -- which is more than the retail price of the V 1.5s!

It seems that most of the review was based upon the speaker's performance after the addition of these cables.

I wonder if that genius Juan ever saw any footage of how the hijackers were dressed?

It's the guys in blue button downs and Dockers he needs to sweat about.

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In other news...

Spitzer the felon to CNN?

What, did Rupert Murdoch buy CNN?

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For both blues and reds - "anonymous" unlimited donors without any transparency is a terrible idea.

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