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Happy Birthday! Go blow a hole in a road!

Aerials are carefully and very (small c) conservatively designed speakers. Mike Kelly, the designer, has strong ideas about how things should sound and takes a very analytical approach to making it happen. (I believe he was a plasma physicist before going into audio but can't remember where I read that.) And most of those involve lots of juice -- how many people specify 350W - 700W at 8 ohms for a center channel? In my inexpert opinion, their older models are among the best deals available on the used market today. Everything is massively overbuilt to the point where hardly anyone wants to ship, so if you can find them in your area you are golden. I got my Model 8s (120lbs each) from a guy in NH for all of $1200. Cabinets hand built by Hornslet in Denmark, titanium dome tweeter, 28Hz - 22KHz

Too psycho, didn't read.

Sounds like a pretty accurate description of Head Case in toto.

Matthew Sweet -- Time Capsule: The Best Of So much good stuff on this!

No free cake?

Andrew Bird -- Noble Beast

Damn fine.

I have the original Aerial 8s as mains. They're great but really, really power hungry. One of these days I hope to get them hooked up to a 500W D-Sonic or Wyred amp. Or maybe two of the big Emotiva monos. Mmm.

Fair enough. Just thought I might be missing something good. I have a CC3 in my HT too and recently -- to my chagrin -- had to pass on a CC5 and Sound Anchor stand for pickup just a few miles down the road from me. If only my kids didn't have to eat!

GS-1 got himself a little buddy. The SR-003 are a slightly strange sensation on the head and I'm still playing around with the fit, but they certainly sound good. I was expecting the bass to be much less punchy than it actually is!

Arcy sparky!

Sigur Ros -- ()

Does the Sabre somehow solve your SACD problem? I'm in the same boat.

There's a Wyred amp in that price range? I thought their cheapest mono was $800.

The Cure -- 4:13 Dream

We had to wear boaters as part of the uniform at my prep school. These were known as "bashers", presumably because the first thing the seniors would do when you got there as a new boy was punch a fist through the crown. I think a pork pie would be a little less jolly-hockey-sticks.

HATS would only be worthwhile if you had both the player and receiver.

They'd have to be built into a Panama hat.

Are we having drinks together or running a train on you?

Put my HT speakers (Aerial Model 8s) up on some Sound Anchor stands I managed to find locally. Reran Audyssey a few times while futzing with the subwoofer gain. Enjoyed the placebo effect for a while.

I would buy that for a dollar!