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Toshiba has a nice lne of small lcd -- HD-ready monitors.We bought 23-inch with built in DVD -- which gave it an EXTREMELY HIGH Spousal Approval Factor. Aound $700 from on-line dealers last summer.

The Enhanced Package version of "The Beatles Love." Two disks -- one CD and One DVD-Audio, that will play on all DVDs. Same song list on each. Finally, the real fifth Beatle, George Martin, gets his due. He and his son took all the old original Beatles masters and cut together a 70-plus minute program that really gives the 26 included songs a fresh flavor. Sure you can sing along -- every note is sung by the Fab Four - and the music is what you remember, but Martin cuts it together in new ways -- like lifting the strings from "Good Night" and putting them under Ringo singing "Octopus's Garden". What strikes me most is how inventive those guys were and how gutsy they were to bring sounds to Top 40 Radio that no one else was offering. The DVD-Audio is pretty good. not gimmicky, with very clear, crisp sound. Well engineered, as you would expect from George Martin. I haven't listened to the CD yet, but I am sure it is as well made. Drawbacks? Well, it does rework masterpieces of boomer culture. And there are things Martin had to do to make it function as a soundtrack for Cirque du Soleil. But I am enoying it quite a bit.It's really hard not to have a good time listening along.

Hard to believe this thread went almost 3 whole pages without someone coughing up "Dune"

Wrap the remote in a plastic bag with a fresh chicken, bury it for a month and you'll for sure forget about the smoke smell ..... Or you could spend $30 for a Rat Shak learning remote.

Start by calling Comcast. I can't tell you about charges in Virginia, but the dual tuner box works great. it's worth the ext5ra $5 it costs me per month. I can't say about your new stand, but the dual tuner does get HOT (!!) and needs good ventilation or it will trip itself frequently.

on-line sources for DVD-A: AIX Records at www.aixrecords.com/ (superb indy label -- great samplers) Acoustic sounds at www.acousticsounds.com (full line dealer) Music Direct at www.musicdirect.com (full line) DTS REcordings at www.dtsonline.com/ (still putting out some good stuff) Happy Multi-channel Listening -- look for best titles at the Weekly Recommended thread mentioned above.

For anyone coming into the area early, Lyle lovett and his Large Band are in little Rock on 9/14. The Arkansas Symphony plays LR with guest violinist Corey Cerovsek on 9/17 and 9/18.

"Switched on Bach" really grabbed hold of me -- it was the first classical music album I ever bought. Not near the last, but it still has a warm place in the heart. I nevver found much more in the genre by Carlos, but my favorite electronic classical musician was/is Isao Tomita. By the way, when Switched on Bach was released, the artist was known as "Walter Carlos." I later bought a cut-out of a Wendy Carlos release that was an absolutely horrid attempts to synthesize Tibetan music (why????) What was the deal there? Did Walter lose something in the transition?

For some good primary info and opportunities for deep study, go to the speakers section at ecoustics.com, and click on "Articles." You'll find plenty of "reprints" from specialty A/V magazines, explanations and info. Then head to your local retailer and buy Klipsch

The best of the swamp-rocker -- "Premonition" by john Fogerty. Live rock-n-roll. Available on CD, but the DVD, out of print, but frequently on Ebay, is worth the extra bucks for the songs and the concert video. I just got a Russian copy of the PAL version off Ebay from some guy in Azerbijian -- price was decent, audio and video are great and he didn't nail me for the shipping ($4). This is the only modern day recording, I think, of Fogerty doing old CCR songs and he knocks it out! Happy B-Day, thebes.

Sometimes it takes the context to understand the guilt .... I am a middle-aged Republican southern baptist sunday school teacher, so naturally one of my guilty pleasures is AC/DC, especially "Thunderstruck." And I regret to confess that back in the 70's I actually owned and frquently sang along with a Mac Davis album.

Speakers $2,000 HDTV $4,000 StudioTech Rack (high in SAF) $800 Yammie 2300 $700 Switchers, cables, players, geegaws, brickbats $700 CD's, DVDs, SACDs, DVD-As -- as nickoltl said -- priceless Saddest part is that had I been a more active reader of this forum, I would have saved some money. Almost as sad part is how much the prices of a lot of that stuff dropped the day after i bought it

---------------- On 8/8/2005 11:34:14 PM sunburnwilly wrote: Any schools located near Hope Arkansas ? ---------------- Henderson State University is just up the road in Arkadelphia -- I believe it has the only School of Aviation in Arkansas.

He also sounds like a good candidate for one of the military academies.

Thnkas again to joesportster for the wonderful deal and heeckuva shipping job! Alison Krauss is serenading us right now -- my bride is just sitting right there in front of the speakers, listening loud, smiling and rocking to the music. For what it is worth -- here's the first six CD's played on the Heresy's, in this order: Beatle "One" Alison Krauss "So long so wrong" Copland by Bernstein Best of Leon Russell Thomas Dolby "Aliens Ate My Buick" Concord Jazz Sampler Volume 3 Nothing like some good tunes to help yu beat the Arkansas heat!