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    Good Speakers + Sub for 5.1 System for around $800?

    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...
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    Fantastic price on Mirage Omnisats

    It's the LF150: http://www.vanns.com/shop/servlet/it...ures/549500771
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    Fantastic price on Mirage Omnisats

    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...
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    Curious about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? Well wait until you hear about HVD...

    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...
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    Grado SR60 headphone review for Music Lovers [long]

    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...
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    I don't see why anybody is suppourting Dual-y Disc!

    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...
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    New MP3 (component) products (for connecting to Receiver)?

    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...
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    Unofficial "I recommend this song/group" Thread

    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...
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    import SACDs

    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.;)
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    Celtic music -- who (else) listens to it primarily?

    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.
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    1248 CD case for $50,00

    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...:)
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    Robin Trower - Living Out of Time

    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.
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    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...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    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...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    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...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    I often wonder about this. They do not want to go to trial in these lawsuits they are filing. And they backed down in the Napster trial when a judge ruled they had to show the actual artist contracts in court. After all, if you're suing for copyright infringement, the defendent should get a look...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    The RIAA's lawsuits have the stink of extortion. The actual complaint urges the defendant to settle out of court, and provides a handy phone number to make payment arrangements. Gee, the people suing me DO NOT want to go to court? Makes me wonder why...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    That's when the mainstream press became aware of it, but mp3 technology had been in casual use by music fans for several years by that time. Before Napster, file trading mas mostly through fan websites. The first mp3 file I ever saw was a legal one offered by a fan of the British band James (it...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    Use your imagination, Andrew. Get yourself away from the idea that the only way to have a diverse musical culture is to keep the current tightly-controlled systems of music creation and distribution. Music has always been created, performed, distributed, and enjoyed. That won't change. Even...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    On the RIAA lawsuits: What I think about it does not matter (for the record, I think it is wrong). The fact remains, that many people ARE stealing music, and our legal system is powerless to stop it. What would happen if the recording industry disappeared? Think along those lines for a...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    Music can NEVER be copy protected. As long as the music can be HEARD, someone could use a good microphone to record it to a file which can be copied a billion times. SACD isn't copy-proof. I can run the 2-ch analog output from my SACD player to my sound card, and digitize the music into wav...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    You guys are missing it. We need to think of ways that musicians can make a living, given that 4 billion songs are stolen per day. This is the core problem, and the other arguments are just fringe issues.
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    The current path for the music industry is to litigate and legislate until P2P systems somehow disappear. Then lock down all the computer and audio hardware and software in the world and use DRM to authenticate and police every user, device, and song. Is this what we want? It's what they...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    I understand that in the current system, the record company fronts the money to make a recording. Still, the industry should be at least EXPERIMENTING with new business models and revenue streams. My proposal (a PayPal link) could work in tandem with the current system. Since there are going...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    As for the question of how the record companies can compete with FREE - how about a PayPal link embedded in every song? Provide a very easy way to pay the artist a dollar if you like the song. Most people are inherently honest. I think a significant % would pay, ESPECIALLY if it were going...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    Maybe, but how long will the bar stay raised? Could the RIAA survive a p2p app which offered easy anonymity? Nope. And what of the billions of CDs and trillions of mp3s already out there? How does the RIAA put THAT genie back in the bottle? Even if they could stop internet filesharing...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    Exactly. These lawsuits will only drive file sharing further underground, until everyone uses anonymous encrypted networks. But even if the RIAA were able to stop p2p completely in its tracks, there are still billions of unprotected CDs and trillions of downloaded mp3s out there now.
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    I'd say it's more due to the efforts of the artists themselves, without whom there is no product to exploit/enjoy. Their "falling outs" are mostly due to their labels' abandonment of them. Aimee Mann was already an independent when her career got a big boost from the movie "Magnolia", whose...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    Totally wrong. I don't do video. I used to spend hours rummaging through CD stores, discovering new music. Sometimes I'd try a new artist simply because I liked the producer. And in many, many instances I would buy an artist unheard simply because (believe it or not) I TRUSTED THE RECORD...
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    RIAA impending lawsuits

    You forgot all the other associated costs like cocaine, hookers, limos, furs, schmoozing the MTV people, payola to Clear Channel if you want it played on the radio...gee, I just wanted some music. They can skip the massive ad campaign. I can't remember ever buying a CD because I saw an ad for...
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