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when was the last time i spent $200 on a radio? a couple months ago. in fact i have 3 Cambrdge Soundworks (740’s, non-HD) radios in my house. the sound is good considering the footprint, they play about any type of disk, take inputs from any mp3 player or external source (i have them streaming music from a media server),…

“Can Sony Make HD Radio A Winner?” “Question: when was the last time you spent $200 for a table-top clock radio? What locale will have to freeze over before you pay it now? Can you think of 20 AM and 20 FM stations you’d like to store in its memory? Or any memory? Your memory? Are there 20 AM and…

Don’t sell the epson 1080 short… Excellent guideline on a cheap HT setup.

I understand completely what you’re saying and you’re right.  The service industry has taken a massive nose dive right into the parking lot of Best Buy.  My generation thought they were smart by getting all the quality products cheap and proclaiming that the internet could tell them all they needed to know about their product.  OOPS!!! So, where does the…

Good points, but I got to vent on this one! We are a community of “I want everything and I want it cheap”. This is how the Big Box stores became so popular because everyone one is driven mostly on price. But in all of this, they have settled for less ultimately. We all complain that we have to outsource…

I don’t think you can totally phase out the big box stores.  Around where I live, big box is king and have put over 50% of the real deal places out of business.  No, I didn’t get Paradigms from BB or CC, and neither did I get my Denon receiver from them.  I bought my Denon at the real store…

So back to the point, what do us “seasoned” audio people tell the “newbie”? My advise is to set a budget and then go see a couple of professional home theater companys and see what they can get for their money. The internet, Best buy or the Bose store is not the best place to start. There are plenty of…

I’m not saying Bose is good at all and would never advise anyone of my friends to buy Bose.  Think about this though.  Bose is small, easy to set up with 2 year old controls to operate it so that any ADULT can operate it.  Most people are more impressed with speakers that are small and sound like they’re large....or…

The problem is not with audiophiles, how much money you spend or better than you scenario. The issue is people...consumers...are told their 399.00 system is every bit as good as the 3999.99 system. Bose claims that there stereo satellite system with a subwoofer gives you surround sound that “rivals more complicated 5 speaker systems”. People who dont make it their…

Mr. Audio - i think it’s fair to say audiophiles have always been a fairly small niche… but to call them a dying breed is a bit premature. i would rephrase that to say because so many more people buying stereos/portable players/home theaters, “true audiophiles” may now be a smaller percentage of the market than they once were. it comes…