1.21 giga-watts huh? Did you have a certain "Doc" install your system Arjay?
Maybe it's been the mp3 players I've had experience with that have tainted my view of the format? I've always heard a slight hiss/hum frequency with mp3s that kills the high frequencies. Either way, I still like my CDs; and I was rather fond of minidiscs back in the day. Apparently I was the only one that liked 'em...

Nice truck btw. I had a 95 Tacoma my mom handed down to me. It ran until 315,xxx miles. That's after not getting it's first oil change until I got it at 113,xxx miles The fact that there was still oil in that truck sold me on Toyota.

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I updated my 70's, mid range gear over the last few years to current mid range gear, 7.1, diy speakers. I rip my ipod music at red book spec's, at my age my hearing proably isn't up to that in any case.

I enjoy picking up the odd 60 / 70 remaster Cd, ones I always wanted but never had. I really like concert dvd's, much more than studio cd's, never went to many in the day so now I'm catchin up.

the noise floor and acoustics in a car or truck are never going to be great no matter how good the gear, listen to low res ripped files on good gear, in a good & quiet room versus a cd and you'll notice the difference. maybe even if your ears are as old and worn as mine.

Great looking truck Arjay,beautiful colour,I was leaning towards the Ford Ranger 4X4 but after finding that they are pigs on gas I'm leaning towards a Tacoma.Fellow Forum member Blinkers recently bought a Tacoma 4X4 Access cab and finds it to be a great truck-now if I could only get the unbelieveable deal that he did.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Thanks, GS!

Mine's a 2WD Pre-Runner......about 23 mpg on the open road.

Toyota calls that color "Speedway Blue". Looks like Lake Placid Blue to me though.

The TRD "Baja" wheels come from the Toyota accessory catalog. I just wish they'd make the chrome package a factory option too -- all the bling came from Ebay.



Arjay

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Some good points which made for some interesting reading. Thanks for the input guys.

I still appreciate Real Hi-Fi, but sadly it does seem as though it is "dead."



I'd love to hear that set up.

I have been experimenting with bi-amping and tri-amping, with real speakers (it takes big paper to really move air). Our entertainment center (lots of daily use) is a bi-amped stereo system and the experimental stereo system in my music room is tri-amped (really amazing clean sound).

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Real Hi Fi is the only way to go. At home i have a 7.1 bose system. In the car 6 speaker 1000w system. still buy cd's and don't own an mp3 player. i like to feel music.

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Vintage Hotrod '57 Strat, 81 G&L L2000 Series E Bass, Fender Musicmaster Bass Amp.

I have nearly 1000 CDs but I have only purchased about 20 songs, tops from iTunes for my phone. I made the grevious error of getting rid of all my vinyl and buying into the CD lie that digital is better than analogue. The current lie is that MP3 is as good as WAV. I upgraded my stereo (which I now realize was really a downgrade) in the late 90s and I see how home stereo gear continues to decline in quality with each passing year. I bought into the entire line of crap that newer is always better. Sometime new is better but not always.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Hi-Fi's not dead.....you can drop 20,000.00 on a turntable. Lots of vintage stereo gear sites can get you up and running. Vinyl kills CD quality.........

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My setup in the living room:
Yamaha RX-V863, Bang &Olufsen Beogram 1800 turntable, Panasonic DMP-BD35 Blu-Ray, Nakamichi BX-150 cassette deck, and KEF Q-Series speakers (5.1).
In the bedroom is a small system used just for music: my old NAD 7140 receiver, a Pioneer DV-414 cd/dvd player, and a pair of Mirage Omnisat V2 speakers...very airy and clean sound. I used to have a set of Allison 5s, but my ex blew the cones on those one day when she turned on her Denon receiver. I loved those speakers

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Current Gear: Ron Kirn Barnbuster Tele,
Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica

Glad to hear that I am not the only one still enjoying good Hi-Fi, keep the faith.

The hiss is more likely what they are using to connect the MP3 player to the truck than the player itself..... 99% of the cables that you can buy for it are absolutely horrible.

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Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I plug my Ipod into my HiFi and play along with the songs, unfortunately something isn't ground very well, so I get a bit of a shock if I touch my strings at the same time at the back of my Ipod.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

i LOVE vinyl, i have around 2000 LPs that i listen to on my surround sound 5.1 system. That is my preference, if i have any chance of getting music on vinyl i jump at it. I also have a turntable to rip to my computer. i have about 460 gig of music. I am keeping my cd's even though i ripped them all.

I have an ASR Emitter (http://www.stereophile.com/integratedam ... index.html) paired with a Cayin CD-T17a (tube in output stage) paired with a speaker that features an magnetostatic planar tweeter.


Cheers

David

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