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Ryan, Fun to drive? Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Michael

Through my 15+ year career in the high end car business, I have had as customers or met these people: Alice Cooper Michael Nesmith (monkees) Dave Mustaine (megadeath) Barry Bonds (Giants) Tony Gwynn (padres) Sammy Seale (Chargers) Junior Seau (Chargers) Mark Parent (Padres) Bip...

Bill, Wrong. AMG is the performance division of Benz. Just like "M" (Motorsport) is the performance division of BMW. All Mercedes dealers sell AMG cars. They are part of the regular dealer stock. (Although they are manufactured in a separate section of Benz in Germany.) Personal choice for...

This is the one for me too. Emailed Ron at SVS. Tried to see if they had a trade-in program. No such luck. Ron did say, though, that since I am a repeat buyer, there's no shipping charge on the pb2+! That'll save a few $$. Will wait to put my order in until they are shipping. Need to sell...

Brian, I'll second the W (Westin). Stayed there for a 3day weekend last September. Westin's beds are probably some of the best in the business. All the rooms also have killer shower heads. It's close to everything downtown. Wouldn't walk to Safeco, but the hotel has a shuttle that will take...

MickeS, Ran your Carfax for you. Car looks good. No odometer rollback. Not salvaged. Not a manufacturer buyback. Shows being involved in one accident in Tucson,AZ on 10/18/00. Only says total accident damage over $1000.(Carfax shows no "severe" accident damage.) Last reported sale was at...

Michael T, From the 3800 owner's manual (features section): AL24 ProcessingPlus, an advanced version of conventional AL24 processing, is a newly developed analog waveform reproduction technology, and offers compatability with the high number of bits and high sampling rates of next...

Doug, I got the Ah! last week and it's still in carton in my garage. (Along w/ 3 monoblocks, a new rack and a bunch of new power cords/interconnects.) Have not had time time to tear down system and put new rack/equipment. Hopefully this weekend.:) My Ah! has 3 sets of extra tubes and 2...

Keith, Side question for you... Your website upgrade list says you want to add the upsampler for your Ah! Njoe Tjoeb cd player. Your system list and photos don't show that cd player. Do you not have it anymore or have yet to get one? Just curious. I bought one last week. Decided to replace...

Keith, FWIW...Jeff Talmadge w/ Denon USA has posted on AVS that the 3800 will be discontinued. Not yet though. It will be replaced w/ the 3900 "this fall". Don't know any details other than that. Am currently using a 9/02 3800. Bought in Jan 02. Knew about chroma and skip problen when I...

Dean, Although a Mercedes, none of the tuners are allowed (by Benz) to alter the grille and keep the Star intact. Hence, most of these modded cars have odd grille logos. Btw, most of these upper end tuners do work in the USA. You do not have to import to get one. However, these...

Charles, It's a V8 not a V6. Bad lighting/reflection in photo. Carlsson's website says it's based on the SL55 which is only a V8. The blower on top of the engine (seen on Carlsson's website is the V8 blower, not the V6. Car would be called a CK32 if it was a V6. Carlsson's designation is a...

Dean, It's not a SL350 or a SL500. It's a tuned SL55 AMG. AMG is the "hotrod" division of Mercedes-Benz. Carlsson adds some horsepower (about 90), a body kit, wheels and some other fluff. Car in the photos is a non-USA car. (note: cloth insert in seats is not a US option.) Although the...

Got rid of tape deck?...no. Just bought one though. New Sony ES dual deck. Store goofed too. Price was $350 and they said it was on special for $100 plus 20%off. Paid a whopping $79.00. Sent my Dad down to pick one up and they said it was supposed to be $250. (Wife is an ice skating coach and...

Suppose I mind as well chime in... I am on my second Range Rover. First was an 89 and now a 96. The first one I bought used w/ 125k miles. Drove it til 192k miles. My current one, I just bought used w/ 60k miles. Let me add that I have been a service advisor for 15 years. Three years of which...

Jack, Ok, the set will darken over first year. Fine. However, it sounds like it should not go so dark to neccessitate brightness having to be set at 80-90%. My co-worker's set has been fine until very recently. Yes, he said it has darkened some over the last 2 years. However, over the last...

Wesley, Excuse me for dropping in on this one. Not trying to thread-jack, but I need some help and problem seems kinda similar... One of the guys here at work has a Tosh 56H80. This thing has gotten so dark that it's unwatchable. He doesn't have the fuzzy issue, just dark. Set has gotten...

Well the weekend came and went. Good news and bad news. The rack did not arrive. Could not tear the system down and install the new amps.:frowning: Rack is coming from Canada and there was a dealy in shipping or whatever. Anyways, on a somewhat cool note, they're taking another 10%...

I'll throw in my $0.02, About 2+ years ago I was looking at the Bose Wave. Luckily I didn't buy it. Came across the JBL Harmony. (yeah, JBL the speaker company.) Anyways, it's a dual alarm, 3 speaker, single cd setup. Twice as tall as a Wave but not as big of a footprint. Two speakers are...

Marc, Which monoblocks are you using w/ the 3802? Outlaw? How do you like the results? Did you do all three at once or two then one. (like I will be doing.) This weekend is teardown time. New rack and adding the monoblocks. I think I'm going to replace my cassette deck this week also. The...

Ira, I will by hooking my monoblocks up to my Denon 3802. It's a fairly simple process. Just have to calibrate output levels again as you do on initial set-up. Go into set up on the Denon, go to speaker level settings and using an spl meter, calibrate to 75db (or 85 w/ Avia). That's all you...

Paul, FWIW, Something to consider besides the iScan: http://www.focusinfo.com/company/pr_new/090103_CES.htm This unit should do all you ask and is less than the iScan. It is due out around the end of March and is aimed primarily for the rptv market. My understanding is it will do...

GOT 'EM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just went local b&m and picked up the 2 amps at lunch. Opened the boxes there to check them out. Major bummer is that I can't hook them up til end of the month when new rack comes in and wife is out of town and I can tear down the whole system. Oh well. The amps: All...

Charles, FWIW: Outlaw 755 amp: $1299 Outlaw M200 (x5): $1399 Parasound HCA-2205 (used on Audiogon): $1300-1500 All amps 200w/pc or more. Best regards, Michael

Chuck, Glad to see you got the amps. Could you hear anything when the amps went from class a/b to G? How was the sound from low level to high...any difference? Am wondering if the stacking issue is more weight/load bearing than heat dissipation. Maybe the cases aren't designed to hold...

Brian, Main benefit is reduction/elimination of interference from other sources. Also gives about a 3db increase in output (I think). Michael

Chuck, Almost a ditto of my plan. I have PSBs all around. Will add the first 2 monoblocks and then probably one a month til I hit seven. BTW...I have the same sub! After the monoblocks are in, I'll replace my Denon 3802 w/ a pre/pro. Looking forward to your impressions. Michael

Jeff, Yes, I went down to the dealer yesterday. NHT shows them in stock and I should have them w/in 10 days. Only ordered 2 b/c I found my existing rack will not hold all the amps. Had to order a new rack from another dealer. Also am having an electrician come in around end of the month and...

John, You're right. I do not have to pay tax from Outlaw. However, shipping for 3 M200s is $75.00. (that's ground, air is $165.) That was what I added into the cost of the Outlaw. Anyways, the cost is close enough that I don't mind the extra for the NHT. Am really looking forward to...

Bill, Actually, yes. The Outlaws have $75 shipping. Tax here in AZ is 8.1% ($80). Comes to $1070 or $925. That's $145 difference or less than $50 per amp for balanced. To me, that's acceptable. I will have the balanced connectors for future pre/pro upgrade. Plus, I like dealing w/ local b&m...