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  1. I love watches and like to look and read about them, but never spend much on them. I had an inexpensive TAG F1, a little fiberglass thing years ago, but the band broke and a new one wasn’t worth the price, so didn’t replace it.

    Now I alternate between 2 Wenger, 2 Citizen Ecodrive, and 2 Timex.

    Of special interest is a Railroad Approved Seiko Quartz I’ve had for about 32 years. When I worked for MKT Railroad we had to buy these watches. Kinda crazy at the time wearing a $200 watch switching train cars, the most dangerous job I’ve ever had.

  2. Ok, I bought a router today...D-Link N300, another customer at Fry’s helped me since I was clueless, so hopefully this will be ok. I haven’t bought the receiver yet as I've been reading more about them. I think it's between the Logitech Squeezebox Touch and Grace GDI-IRDT200. The Grace looks more like a rack size audio component, but I kinda like how the little Logitech looks, (kinda like my Sirius Sportster currently in use). They both have RCA out, coax and toslink out, USB in. For an extra $100, I may be swayed toward the Logitech’s color touch screen vs. the Grace 4 line LED display. Regardless of which one I get, there is still a lot of research to be done. I still have no idea how to access these 17,000 stations I read about, and don’t even know what FLAC really means. Will be fun learning…
  3. gnatnoop, This looks like something I envisioned, but not sure yet about spending that much money although it looks very nice. I should first probably read up more on internet radio as I'm pretty clueless about what it offers and how I could benefit from a receiver like this. I also saw a model by Grace which had a USB input and digital outputs like this logitech model.

    Thanks for all the replies so far as I continue to learn more on this topic.

  4. I like to listen to various sources and currently use a Sirius receiver and a Sony HD receiver, but want to experiment with internet radio. So do I need a WiFi internet receiver or something? I don’t currently have a wireless network in my home, and no zero about this. Maybe I’m looking for something that can be a line input device to my main system?

  5. I have a Sirius mobile receiver connected to my home system and use the Sirius branded Terk antennae. Reception is not that great depending on time of day, and I agree that the fidelity is no where near CD quality. But like dtel, I like to scroll through the channels for different types of music.

    I've heard of Pandora and will need to experiment with that. Is it strictly PC based, or can you stream it to other components? I know absolutely nothing about the wireless streaming options, music servers, etc.

    On the other hand, my Sony HD radio receiver is absolutely great, just not a lot of stations that appeal to me where I live, but the reception is great with a huge sound improvement over satellite.

  6. I think about this a LOT, and I’m not sure why,,,,,,,.

    Widor – Toccata from Symphony No. 5…..as performed by Kevin Bowyer

    U2 – In God’s Country

    Blues Image or Blood Sweat & Tears – Ride Captain Ride

    Gabrieli – Canzon Duo Decimi Toni –or- Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2…..as performed by the Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia brass ensembles

  7. Two or three years ago I read a story of a mall or shopping center in Germany I think, where the wife could buy a ticket to put her husband in “daycare’ while she shopped. Seems like the coupons bought a beer or two, and the facility had TV, slot cars, etc. for the guys to play with for an hour or two. The article went on and on, but seemed like the guys had a pretty good time.

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