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When I first read the thread title, I thought it said "Zombie-looking to eat some BRAINS~ lol WELCOME~

Funny commentary from Epik's website: http://www.epiksubwoofers.com/products.html Satisfaction We’ve noticed that our customers often crank up their subwoofers for the first few days with the loudest material possible. They are excited about experiencing bass at high output levels. After the subwoofer system is run through the ceremonial barrage of bass heavy DVD’s or recordings and gets dialed in a little bit better to the room, customers start listening to how it actually sounds. This is when the subwoofer starts to show its true colors. All of the low bass output in the world can not fix muddy, bloated and unmusical bass performance. That is why the Empire was designed around sound quality first and foremost. When the Empire is reproducing an audio signal, it just sounds better. It gives you everything that you expect from an Epik subwoofer, but it also raises the bar for what to expect at this price. Who knew that reference performance could be so affordable? Epik did.

This has been discussed before: http://www.thecarversite.com/yetanotherforum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=2837 http://www.thecarversite.com/yetanotherforum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=645

Well, it was in 2008, but I TRIED to get someone to take them...

I sold over 3,000 LPs to a local guy last year for $240.00~

WELCOME, Steve~

I just found this link; looks like I'll be adding to my collection soon! http://www.classicalcdreview.com/sssurroundhall.html

"The Stand" by Stephen King. Excellent book. I also enjoyed his "Gunslinger" series; very bizarre & imaginative.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, FLOOR~

Try running a vacuum cleaner deep in the port to cycle fresh air through it~

http://www.bluesmokesystems.com/index.html

Right now, it's kinda haphazard (somewhat alphabetical), but hope to one day have them alphabetical by genre on racks, with a hard copy for reference....

SHA-WEEET, dude! Looks awesome~

Look like this?

GOOD one...hard to find!

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overtue (Telarc SACD) Yellowjackets: Time Squared (SACD) Steely Dan: Everything Must Go Dianna Krall: Temptation (off The Girl in the Other Room) Norah Jones: Not Too Late (SACD)

Interesting~ pulled from Club Polk: http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97431 The Rob Zombie Spec One specification you will not see on any amplifier specification chart is the Rob Zombie test. The Rob Zombie test is something our engineers (we call them ‘lab rats’) cooked up. It seems for whatever reason to be the most effective way to test a power amp... In this case we take a worst combination of low impedance (within the IEC spec) and reactive (phase shifted) impedance and find the meanest music we can. This simulates the worst case operating conditions an amplifier may see in the field. It is important that the speaker has a large heavy voicecoil to remain cool and keep the impedance low over time. We play Rob Zombie’s ‘Hillbilly Deluxe’ CD, Track 6 ‘Demonoid Phenomenon’ and see how long it takes for the amp to trip its internal protection or shut down. Demonoid, it seems, shuts down amps faster than white noise, Whitesnake, pink noise, Pink Floyd or Metallica. (With the rare exception of the one amp that shut down during an extended ‘Celine Dion’ test ... but we think that might have been a suicide.) As odd as this test sounds, we used a Bruel and Kjaer 2304 audio analyzer to investigate amplitude distribution and found that the toughest music was Rob Zombie (harder on your power system than typical AM radio source material) in terms of punishing an amplifier. This program material spends the most time at an amplitude that we've found overheats amplifiers. It is an opportunity to drive the amp in a real world application, in less than the ideal circumstances of a laboratory and test equipment. It forces the amplifier to play real music source program material (not theoretical source material) into an impedance shifting / phase shifting speaker load. This is a test of the real world capabilities of the amplifier, in conditions you could easily see in a nightclub, a rave or a rock concert ... not a design lab. We always run this test, among others on our products, and occasionally competitive products, just to see where we stand. We have seen competitive amplifiers with impressive specifications not pass the Rob Zombie test either in the lab, or in a nightclub. The truth is, current trends in music like super low bass synths and massive samples now commonly used can be far more punishing than popular program music was in the past. A good amplifier has to have the ability to cope with whatever source material you choose to use, even if it is Rob Zombie. Copyright © 2010, Yorkville Sound. All Rights Reserved

A record (LP) groove magnified 500 times: and magnified 1000 times:

I have always liked the lyrics to all the songs on Kansas' "Leftoverture" album, but this is one of the best, short & true: Magnum Opus (Kerry Livgren/Steve Walsh/Rich Williams/Dave Hope/Phil Ehart/Robby Steinhardt) This foolish game, oh it's still the same The notes go flyin' off in the air And don't you believe it's true, the music is all for you It's really all we've got to share Cause rockin' and rollin', it's only howlin' at the moon It's only howlin' at the moon

Depends on how you plan to use it exactly, but the C-19 would be an EXCELLENT preamp under $1000.00, if you can find one.

I had an entire RF-83 system & loved it (sold due to financial difficulties). That said, for 2 channel listening, I prefer my AL-IIIs . Speakers are a highly personal component. If they sound good to you, go for it~