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2007-01-29 Thread barrygordon
My name is Barry Gordon. You can find out a lot more about me at www.the-gordons.net. My Hobbies are Music, Movies and building things. When my late wife and I designed our home we put in a Home Theater. The room was desinged as an adult playroom. The video details are front projection at

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2007-01-17 Thread chiefersone
My name is Matthew. I so love music becuse it evokes the Spirit in us if you know what I mean. zthat's why I'm a praise and worship music fanatic. Only trouble is not mucch out there that doesn't all sound the same, need more synth stuff the christian alternative genre's got some good stuff

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2007-01-15 Thread chiefersone
I'm running my SB3 into an Adcom GTP600 preamp with a 6 zone amplifier and I enjoy perfectly clear, hum free music. I attempted a split of the RCA jacks onthe SB to send a signal downstairs to my basement and immediately upon plugging in the y RCA spiltter humming exists. Has anyone out there

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2007-01-15 Thread chiefersone
So I could toslink to my Adcom GTP600 upstairs and use the RCA outputs from the SB3 to my downstairs Denon receivervia my through the floor RCA interconnect cable? Is this what you are saying? -- chiefersone

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2007-01-11 Thread Antipodes
I just registered so here goes. I bought a SB1 shortly after they were released and was totally taken by the experience. I had always been so so picky about sound quality, and here was a piece of equipment that transcended all that. No it didn't sound nearly as good as my CDP, but the

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2007-01-06 Thread pjdowns
Well errm, here I am, My name is Paul, I am shortly going to be getting married to the nicest girl I have ever met (Christina) and I work as a IT Engineer. I live in England and have an avid interst in Hifi and Music. My system comprises of Naim CDI (CD Player) Sony ST-505ES (Tuner) Slim

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2006-12-27 Thread yelena66
Which album is your favorite? --- What music do you like? destinys child fans site http://www.destinys--child.com -- yelena66 yelena66's Profile:

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2006-12-09 Thread radish
I'm Adam...(Why does sound like the beginning of an AA meeting?)... I'm an ex-pat brit living just outside New York. I'm a programmer by trade and it's fair to say my life pretty much revolves around technology of one sort or another. I actually recently worked out I've been programming for 24

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2006-12-07 Thread empty99
Lemme see, hmmm...It was 1966, I was like 7 or 8 yrs old, living in Vietnam. Money was tight, my dad has a Philips tubed reel to reel, I still remember waiting for the power gauge to turn green before cranking it to Play. Not satisfied with it's 2x6 built-in mono speaker, my brother and I took it

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2006-12-07 Thread CardinalFang
highdudgeon;158363 Wrote: 1. You post about your music experience, your audio experience, what drives you in this hobby, what brings you to Slim Devices, etc. I'm not aaudio engineer or anything like that, although I have a degree in Applied Physics and have studied acoustics and solid

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2006-12-02 Thread jhm731
tomsi42;159115 Wrote: I fart in your general direction. I award you the quotation of the year award ;) Will there be a webcast of the award ceremony? -- jhm731 jhm731's Profile:

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2006-12-01 Thread cliveb
I'm not one of the regulars, but tend to post here occasionally, so I guess an introduction is in order. My name is Clive, 49 years old. I live in the UK, about 15 miles north of London. My day job is in IT: relational databases, client-server applications, database-aware web sites. 1. You

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2006-12-01 Thread Bob Bressler
Next up here. I am also on the amateur side, not professionally connected to music. My first career was in computer networking and I have had my home wired (or wireless) with high bandwidth since the 80s. I must have tried out 2 dozen different audio streaming products and technologies over

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2006-12-01 Thread tomsi42
cliveb;158876 Wrote: Spoilsport. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. I fart in your general direction. I award you the quotation of the year award ;) -- tomsi42 SB3, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact, Kimber Kable 4TC and Timbre.

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2006-12-01 Thread notanatheist
I want to play! So due to the variety of sites I visit and post on (mostly with this name) I typically sign my email and such as Mr O. In the Eugene linux users group I'm known as the same. Googling me can be scary as I'm mostly on tech sites. My occupation is in computer retail, sales,

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2006-11-30 Thread inguz
I'm Hugh, yclept inguz. ('ing is an old screen-name dating back to Moo; it somehow implies process rather than destination, means not ends; ing, inguz or ng is the 22nd rune of the elder futhark, signifying fertility inter alia, requiring completion. There's also a meaning of You're in a rut,

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2006-11-30 Thread jschnur
I have a dedicated sound-video room with Martin Logan Vantage, Cinema i, NHT dipoles, and NHT ceiling speakers. I have a DC-1 Lexicon, and A Bryston SSC 3 stereo amp for the Vantages and and Outlaw 7500 for the other 5 speakers. We listen about 10' from the 2 ML Vantage speaker which are 7.5'

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2006-11-30 Thread tomsi42
Hi, As my signature shows, I cannot call myself a true Audiophile! Still I lurk in this forum as I am more than interested in good audio reproduction and equipment (as well as any cool gadget in general). I am not trained in any musical dicipline; in fact if I tried to play on an instrument I

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2006-11-30 Thread Eric Seaberg
My turn... my name is above. I've been in the recording business for 35+ years spending a lot of time in the late 70s/early 80s cutting master lacquers (LPs) in Hollywood and Burbank. I also spent thousands of hours behind recording consoles recording every possible type of music recordable.

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2006-11-30 Thread tomsi42
tomsi42;158674 Wrote: ... the DynaDel speakers are made here in Norway (price: around 1250 euro). ... Oops! wrong currency rate - the price is about 1500 euro. Still sounds good, though ;) -- tomsi42 SB3, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact, Kimber Kable 4TC and Timbre.

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2006-11-30 Thread ob_kook
My name is Peter. The furry white dude is Duke. I have never considered myself an audiophile, but I think in relation to my peers, have always had a reasonably good system. (yes, I know, denial is one of the prominent signs...) I'm a longtime lurker on these forums and in particular spend a lot

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2006-11-29 Thread adamslim
Well I seem to be early on the list :) My current set-up is in my signature. I'm not a professional at anything music- or hi-fi-related, although did work in a high-end dealer many years ago. I'm here as I got an SB3 - I used the forum to find out stuff pre-purchase, and quite liked some of

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2006-11-29 Thread highdudgeon
Why Highdudgeon? Really, because I love opera and it is a wonderfully archaic word. Think of Wotan skulking across the sage, dragging a spear, wearing a hat with pointy horns, and actually trying to be serious and indignant. Anyway, it is a word I like. My name is George. As a disclaimer, I

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2006-11-29 Thread atkinsonrr
Hi, my name is Rob, and I'm an alcho er audiophile. I played trumpet for a long time, and for the past year or two have been dabbling in guitar, but I wouldnt call myself a musician. I got my start listening to LPs of Cream or Pink Floyd or Clapton, in a garage with a bunch of other high

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2006-11-29 Thread Paul Shields
I'll play. My name is - well, my name is what you see so no need to explain that one :). I've been tracking the squeezebox for a while and only got into it a month or so ago. Experience wise - I'm a bit of a 'muso' having played in many bands over the years. Not really an audiophile - and tend to

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2006-11-29 Thread PhilNYC
Ok, I'll play! My name is Phil, and I'm an audio dealer located in Northern NJ. My screen name is PhilNYC because I used to live in NYC, and I didn't feel like changing my name to PhilNJ on the dozen or so audio forums I've participated on past and present. I first started here on the SD forum

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2006-11-29 Thread tomjtx
In the 3rd brane my name is )(^^##%*(*))) but just call me Tom. I have the following: Speakers: Swillsome Audio Amp/Guppies Electronics: Stiff'm Roll'em Design Group XTC cables PhatDevices Incinerator and SneezeBox30 designed by Con Madman Milder Cables Penultimate Power Supply Sinn