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Congratulations are in order to Y.E. Yang for winning the PGA Championship. He deserved it with his tenacious play. He did not let being in the final pairing with Tiger Woods intimidate him. But I have to say that I was very disappointed in watching the play of Tiger Woods over the last 36...

A year ago I bought this SOTA Star Sapphire Series II vacuum platter turnable with a SME 3009 Series II tonearm. I am using this deck with a $75 TC-760LC phono preamp. Since then I have tried a few different cartridges and presently own a Denon DL-103, Benz Copper Reference Wood...

I'm exhausted, and I mean totally spent. The stress-o-meter this week has been off the scale. I won't go into all of the nerve wracking details but suffice it to say that 90% of it was work related. My head felt like it was going to explode. This is the kind of stuff that is very bad for your...

Thanks to head-fier and all-around great guy Afrikane I have a wonderful pair of AKG K1000s, and like them so much I have decided to build a dedicated rig around them. I already have the amp and digital source departments well taken care of. But I have been considering adding a turntable as...

I sent a PM to Jude a few months ago about this and did not receive a reply. I also searched the forum to see if this was a known issue and found no threads on this topic. I get the following alert whenever I am on Head-Fi. I do not get the alert anywhere else. The issue is that it...

A news legend has died. Whenever I think of journalistic integrity I think of Cronkite. Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite dies - Television- msnbc.com --Jerome

Former boxing champ Gatti found dead in Brazil - FOX Sports on MSN He was found dead in a hotel room in Brazil. His wife has been detained as a murder suspect. I'll never forget the trilogy of fights with Micky Ward and two wars he waged with Ivan Robinson. He was an amazing fighter with a...

Some of you may recall that a few months ago the stylus gave out on my Benz Wood M2 cart. I have since replaced it with a brand new Benz Copper Reference cartridge using the trade up program. I am very pleased with the performance of the cartridge. At the time I said I was going to buy a backup...

We knew this was comming soon and it's very sad. Farrah Fawcett succumbs to cancer at 62 - Celebrities- msnbc.com --Jerome

This probably doesn't surprise any of you photographers out there, but I will miss Kodachrome 64. Some of most spectacularly color rich images I have photographed were taken with this venerable film. Kodak Retires KODACHROME Film; Celebrates Life of Oldest Film Icon in its Portfolio - Yahoo...

My current array of digitial sources is nothing special. I have been using a Slim Devices Squeezebox Duet with a KECES DA 131.1 DAC, and an Oppo DV-980H for SACD and DVD-A playback. Given the budget price of the Oppo, I found it to be a pretty good player despite its lack of frills. However...

This has been a rough week for my audio setup. On Monday my Keces DA 131.1 DAC died after only 8 months of use. I can't say that I was happy about it, but it didn't really wreck my day. I still had my SOTA Star Sapphire turntable and a Oppo DVD player. Earlier today, however, the stylus on my...

Of those head-fiers that listen to jazz, I would be interested to know how many jazz titles you own (this includes all related subgenres such as fusion). I thought about putting an option for non-jazz listeners who own zero titles, but decided against it because I am not really interested in...

I listen to mostly jazz, which represents about 60 to 70 percent of my total listening. Most of that filled with bop and hard bop from the 1940s through the 1960s. I also like a lot of Big Band swing. I've been away from headphones for several months, mainly because I simply prefer my Omega...

I loved his comedy and was saddened to see this today. Dom DeLuise dies at 75 - MSN Movies News --Jerome

Step right up ladies and gentlemen and cast your vote. On Wednesday I will order a new set of headphones and you...not me...will decide what they will be. I'm no rookie when it comes to cans. I have owned several: Grado RS-1, AKG-K701, Sennheiser HD650, and the Beyer DT-880. I have since sold...

This the companion thread to the top 10 Sci-Fi films. As with the film thread, the definition of sci-fi I am using is rather loose and inclusive, so science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, horror, etc is in. I know the purists won't like it. Sue me. Here are my 10 favorites: 1. The...

What are your 10 favorite Sci-Fi movies? Mine are... 1. Blade Runner 2. Alien 3. The Terminator 4. 12 Monkeys 5. Dune 6. The Day the Earth Stood Still 7. 2001: A Space Odyssey 8. The Matrix 9. The Andromeda Strain 10. The Abyss I would be interested to see what films others enjoy...

Since October of last year I have been buying a lot of audiophile vinyl. Of particular interest to me are the 45RPM 180g Blue Note reissues from Music Matters and Analogue Productions. These are remastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman. These reissues are not cheap at $50 per title. But my...

Jazz represents about 70% of my music listening. I like to think that my taste in jazz is fairly ecclectic. I buy and enjoy big band and small group swing, dixieland, cool, bop, hard bop, post bop, fusion, jazz-funk, modern creative, avant garde, and free jazz. There are some subgenres that I do...

I am starting this thread as a space where Head-Fiers can alert fellow members of CDs or LPs that are going out of print. This way people who are interested can snag them while they are still available at a fair price. MODS: Please make this thread a sticky. Let me get it started...

Being the jazz lover and vinylphile that I am, I just could not resist the newest audiophile vinyl series from Classic Records, which the company has dubbed "Clarity Vinyl." Titles released in this series are presented on four single-sided 12" LPs cut at 45 RPM. According to Classic Records...

Something happened to me yesterday that I thought I would share with the forum. Most people who know me here know that I am a vinylphile. I am also a pain in the ass from time to time but we don't need to get in that now. For me, the bane of my vinyl buying and collecting hobby is the Frank...

I always find it interesting in how people assign value to music. But it also has a financial cost since we have to give up a portion of our discretionary income to pursue our passion for music. To what lengths will you go to pursue that passion. What is the most you ever paid for a recording...