Working on a related project, wondering what, if anything, people have on top of their speakers?

Also, are those sonic or decorative?

Example:

My La Scalas...

I also experiment with objects behind my Apogee Grands, but I have no photo link that's current.

Worst figures since Reagan had been in office for two years.

Two years!

You have to go back to 1975 to find the next highest rate.

Who the Hell was President then?

6 years into Nixon/Ford!

Gotta go all the way back to the Great Depression if you want top Reagan's unemployment rates, and Franklin was busy cleaning up Hoover's mess.

I recently bought a Conrad-Johnson PV12 preamp to drive my Jolida JD801 as a power amp. I've been quite impressed with it in this application. The Jolida integrated works really well in this application as a power amp, and the sound is detailed, musical, and very easy to listen to.

On a lark Monday night, I was browsing Audiog and did a search for Conrad Johnson. A C-J Premier 11A power amp had just been listed and the seller was reasonably local. Today he brought it by for me to audition in my own system, and well...you can guess how that turned out...I snagged it.

Over the past few weeks I have been listening to my library of SACD's and have to say that the sound and imagery are amazing an almost like being there at the recording session. With the record business hurting so much I am not sure that I understand why there are so many titles that are NOT available on SACD and why it's not promoted more? Sure there are a LOT of titles at Amazon but some are out of print and cost close to $100 now.

I recently bought Raising Sand, the collaboration between Robert Plant and Allison Krauss, and it's, well....pretty wonderful. I can see why it won a Grammy for Album of the Year. And it's available as an LP!

If it's not a record to die for, it should be....certainly is in my book. One of the best albums I've bought all year, along with Melody Gardot's Worrisome Heart.

Along with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Pearl Jam's debut album "Ten" helped define a musical generation. According to the band's siteMarch 24th will see the re-release of the album in no fewer than FOUR editions. Anyone who considers themselves a Pearl Jam fan that isn't excited by the Super Deluxe Edition should check their pulse, because there is a good chance they have died and no one has bothered to notice yet:

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Also, I find it very unlikely that Klipsch ever produced over 200,000 units of any one model of loudspeaker; do you have some actual figures from them?

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Why would you doubt a speaker line that's been around since the 1940's would not have sold 200k of any one model? No one is disputing the popularity of the Vandersteen but there are several speaker models that have been around far longer than the 2C.

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Understaffed Geithner "The Tax Evader" can't keep up, critics say

By DANIEL WAGNER
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 5, 2009; 10:27 AM

WASHINGTON -- For five weeks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has battled the worst economic crisis in generations with no key deputies in place. That's made for a rocky debut for the man President Barack Obama put in charge of addressing the financial crisis.