Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Personal Introductions: Please Make This a Sticky!

2011-10-10 Thread Edi8th99
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2011-09-23 Thread artintampa
There are several reasons for the Transporter. One of which is that I own a system that most would consider a bit above average. I want a piece of equipment that is flexible and yet sounds well/true. I have a duet that has never satisfied me. The right speaker seems to sound a bit richer. It will

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2009-12-03 Thread steveinaz
Hello All My name is Steve, been an audiophile since the ripe ol age of 11 (1973) when I was bit by the bug. Have had many systems, alot of different equipment through the years. My current system consist of: - CEC CD-3300 CD transport - Benchmark DAC/PRE preamp and DAC - Parasound HCA-1500A

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2009-12-03 Thread snarlydwarf
steveinaz;491976 Wrote: My name is Steve, been an audiophile since the ripe ol age of 11 (1973) when I was bit by the bug. Why does that sound like an intro at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting? -- snarlydwarf

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2009-12-03 Thread steveinaz
I certainly enjoy my beer too! -- steveinaz steveinaz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34707 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30141

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2009-10-12 Thread Panotaker
Name is Ralph. I have only really owned one receiver. I bought a Pioneer SX-1250 brand new back in 1976 and loved the sound then and still love it now. I sold it in the late 80's and tried different stuff, but bought another one about 10 years ago and have since recapped it and it plays and

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2009-06-22 Thread Phoenix
Hi, My name is Phoenix and I've been in the high end audio racket since the 1970's. My musical tastes run to the soft rock groups of that era (Buffalo Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Beatles, Stones, Jackson Brown, Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, CSNY, Joni Mitcell, as well as classical and in the last ten

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2008-08-05 Thread drewe181
howdy, i'm not a cowboy but i do tend to call other people cowboy. the name on my birth certificate says andrew but call me what you like. i'm 28. i work as a croupier/supervisor at crown casino. i've always been around music and have picked up a lot of my musical taste from my father who is also

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2008-07-17 Thread Nonreality
I know this isn't audiophile but for now it will have to do for me. The SB3 into a RX v1800 AV Receiver. That goes into a fairly old pair of P5 BW Speakers. All in all I think its a fairly good setup that of course doesn't quite go into the audiophile range but does give me much pleasure. My

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2008-07-14 Thread slimboy
Hi! I was born in 1976. I am now based in Italy after spending almost 8 years in London, UK. I am a product designer, but I am currently working in the vehicles' security field. For some reasons a I am very often with too little money to fund my hobbies which include motorcycles (I had a Sì

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2008-06-09 Thread Zardoz
Hi there, since last weekend I enjoy playing around with my new favourite toy, the Squeezebox Duet. I love everything about it, the sound quality, the looks and the usability. I'm routing it to my Solen Tigre hybrid amplifier, from there via Silent Wire cabling to my Audiophysics Yara Evolution

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2007-11-27 Thread Gary_C
Hello everyone. Although I've only just registered on the forum I've owned a SB3 for just over a year. My SB3 replaced a PC with a Teratec sound card connected to a Yamaha AV amp. Then began lots of equipment purchases including a Musical Fidelity X-DAC v3, X-CAN v3 and X-PSU followed by a pair

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2007-10-31 Thread bigfool1956
Hi, I'm David Ayers and I've just joined the forum. I suppose I'd better own up from day one, as being the former publisher of hifi+. Please give me warning before throwing rocks, so I can duck :)) My system is basically the same as shown in: http://www.hifiplus.com/reviewers.html with the

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2007-10-31 Thread pablolie
been here since early 2006. i am an electrical engineer that works on technology strategy these days, so the hands on stuff, other than occasional programming, is long gone, and i could design a circuit if my life depended on it. ;-) i live in the bay area in california, just 20 minutes away from

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2007-10-04 Thread golfdane
Had an education that involved tons of live musical experiences. My interest for HiFi was spawned when I tweaked my first turntable at the age of 12 or 13. Had to make it less susceptible to vibrations, so I made my own floating suspension using rubber bands. At 14, did I got my first real amp. A

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2007-06-04 Thread RalphO
I guess that it is about time that I posted an introduction. My name is Ralph which I supposed you have already guessed. 1. You post about your music experience, your audio experience, what drives you in this hobby, what brings you to Slim Devices, etc. I have been a music nutcase since I can

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2007-06-04 Thread mswlogo
1 - Music Experience: I don't play an instrument or can sing a tune. 1 - Audio Experience: I#8217;m not recording engineer. 1 #8211; Hobby Drive: Laziness (tired of flipping CD's w.r.t SqueezeBox). Home Theater/Enjoy Music (General Music system). 1 - Slim Devices: Heard about it on

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2007-05-28 Thread jbc
Jason - from Canada. I have a Linn-based system with the emphasis on 2-channel but the capability to do five. I'm still a fan of vinyl (around 1300 or so albums) but want to introduce a convenient non-compressed digital library - hence a USB drive full of flac files and a squeezebox! Anyhow,

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2007-05-09 Thread el_hefty
I have an insatiable love for music which i have had since i was a wee tacker. Music is my escape my nirvana. With a collection of around 3000 cd's and growing 3000 albums and shrinking (but never to be lost) i was after a better way of playing my music. The vinyl is a different kettle of fish

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2007-02-12 Thread Georgie
My name is Georg and I live in Switzerland. I like all kind of classical music, jazz, folk and complex rock/pop music. My cd collection grows and grows so I decided to build a music server, with synology DS106x disk server, slimserver and sqeezeboxes 3. After playing around with different file

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Personal Introductions: Please Make This a Sticky!

2006-11-29 Thread highdudgeon
This is by way of opening up a thread for personal introductions. Some of us discussed as a fun method to get to know each other on a more personal level and hopefully, to defuse some of the knee-jerk reactions: The rules so far: 1. You post about your music experience, your audio experience,