Whilst there are dynamics of credit crunch, banks in trouble, devalued stock portfolios

I wonder if a small room, properly treated and set up can give real good sound? Can anyone comment on this. Surely Ethan has some experience with this. What say you folks?

I should add I am speaking on the order of 10 x 10 or so.

Does anyone have experience with the recent remasters of Nick Drake's 3 albums, the ones collected in the Fruit Tree boxed set this year? I think they also may have been originally released 5-7 years ago.

Anyway, I have the original CD version; I'm wondering if the new ones are the good kind of remastering or the bad kind (no dynamic range, etc.). Wondering if the set is worth re-buying...

Thanks!

Hi all, first post here.

Here's the situation: I'm starting to put together a home theatre system, and I'm looking for some advice from the great collective wisdom of the interweb. I'm an audio engineer by trade so I'm used to exceptional sound quality, but I'm not into spending huge money at home, at least not yet.

I've been looking to upgrade for a few years. I've a 1980 Phillips 7183 20 watt receiver that I've found impossible to beat. Seems new equip spreads itself thin on home theater stuff.

If this is the case, can anyone recommend a pair of book shelf speakers that can beat my 1990's Boston Accoustics CR-8's for under $700?

I appreciate your expertise since I have none.

Charlie

I have read a lot of forums on this, but for me, all the solutions given have not worked for me. I keep getting oud buzzing noise in my right speakers. Here is my scenario. I have a Macintosh Powerbook.

The audio out of the laptop goes into an M-Audio MobilePre (Audio Interface)

From there, White/Red RCA output cables WITH a ground-loop isolator connect to my Onkyo receiver.

From there the Onkyo receiver connects to 2-sets of speakers. Speaker set A and B.

I'm attempting to build my first stereo system with a little help from you guys. Up until now hi-fi has always meant hitting the road with my Sennheiser's, ipod and portable amp, but I want to be able to come home, take my ipod out of my bag drop it into a system that sounds as great as my 'phones.

I'm new to the hobby and want to spend about $1000 (pretty typical from reading this forum). I've read many of the posts on this forum and this is what I'm thinking at the moment:

Audiophile siblings!

I should be grateful for some pointers to good places (i.e. discs) to begin exploring the

The cd player is not more a suited hifi reproducer today.

The quality it's give you related the price is very low.

The new format you have to use is an usb device theat means:
hard disk
memory
telephone connection

Using a Teac Wap5000 costing 250$ you can:

reproduce internet radio also at 320kb/s
record it on HD
reproduce with media player selection by its graphic terminal of what you have ob hd/memory usb or connected wireless by your pc.

The quality of mp3 using its internal DAC is at level of cd player costing 500 $.