Recent content by Ken_WI

For speakers, you might want to look at the original Mirage Omnisats. These are GREAT home theater speakers, originally $250 each, that are being closed out by Vanns for $80 each. That's $400 for 5 and it leaves you $400 for the sub. I recently replaced my Boston Acoustics speakers with...

It's the LF150: http://www.vanns.com/shop/servlet/it...ures/549500771

www.vanns.com has a closeout price on the original Mirage Omnisat speakers. These originally sold for $250 per speaker and got rave reviews at that price. Vanns has them for $79.88 each with no tax and free shipping! That's 5 top-quality speakers for $400 shipped! If you need 7, it's $560...

It would be nice to archive all my DV raw video on giganto-discs like this. I hate having to hook up the camcorder with the precious original tape when I want to grab something. With Hi-Def camcorders the next consumer standard, we will need even MORE space for all our video clips. Storage...

I've had the SR80s for 7 or 8 years, and I have no complaints. I thought the SR60s were very good also, but I could hear better bass with the SR80s. Also, they were on sale for $85. They have never failed to sound great. My wife is always swiping them to use with her iPod Mini when she goes...

Just say NO to Dual-y Disc-o For one thing, they sincerely HOPE the format breaks all our current hardware, so they can sell us special, crippled Dual-y Disc-o players. For another, what about copy protection? Will I be able to exercise my Fair Use rights? Can I rip the pseudo-CD layer to...

The Squeezebox from Slim Devices is an elegant solution. The wired model is $199 and the wireless one is $279. The great thing about it is it handles any size collection, is extremely responsive and easy to use, the server runs on all platforms, and the player itself is slick, small and quiet...

Daniel Lanois - Shine Even a year after its release, it's part of my daily tunefest. George Michael - Patience Very sophisticated sound, reference-quality Pop music. But beware of the overtly gay lyrics and frequent F-bombs. My wife just looks at me in horror at some of the lyrics, but...

I saw a Dutch import of a multichannel "Ziggy Stardust" SACD in a local shop recently. Price was reasonable, but I'm not a huge Bowie fan. So I stashed it in the Country CD section.;)

My wife and I have been Celtic music fans for many years. Loved Enya of course, but what really opened our ears was the compilation CD "Flight Of The Green Linnet" from Rykodisc in 1990. Our interest just branched off from there, and we probably have 70 or 80 celtic CDs now.

In the near future terabyte hard drives will be $200 and we can finally transfer our CDs to a lossless jukebox and put the physical discs in the attic...:)

Trower's always been a favorite of mine. Bridge Of Sighs is a masterful album, and there's good stuff on many of his other albums. I have the MFSL CD of BoS and it is superb.

Perhaps the songs are NOT AVAILABE for purchase, at ANY PRICE. There are many albums out of print, there are many thousands of LPs that never made it to CD. There are live performances which are not offered for sale on a CD, but for which there is obvious interest. And finally, what about...

There are places like mp3.com where unknown artists can upload their songs and reach a worldwide audience. These are real proving grounds where an artist can determine the salability of his talent. As for who bankrolls the recordings, well, who bankrolls the demo tapes bands use to shop...

Ah, but he wasted a great opportunity to learn from his exploit. He could clearly see that he had people interested in the novel, but who had not yet paid. The worst thing to do was pull the stoty. He should have gotten as many people HOOKED on the story as possible, THEN made them pay before he...