j***k
发帖数: 2719 | 1 I much prefer 805 over 804. But in general, I don;t like much of the new B&W
speakers. Classe + B&W makes big sound, but it is not for playing back
refine music.
I use PMC OB1 in my listening room, IMHO, it sounds much more accurate and
grand than B&W. I am driving the speaker with a 18w SET tube amp with
wonderful results.
The other speaker I have in the family room is Piega C3 LTD. Its sound is
more like B&W style, but with a much better ribbon tweeter for the highs. I
use Accustic Arts Power ... 阅读全帖 |
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j***k
发帖数: 2719 | 2 the SF speakers you have goes very well with either a tube amp or Exposure
3010 or 2010 integrated amp.
krell's integrated amp.. well, it was designed for a specific price point.
its circuit design and production does not have the soul of a real Krell. It
is desinged to capture the $2500~ market, which is what most "sane" person
would spend on an amp, and the price market is significantly bigger than the
>$2500...
but IMHO, it is not really a krell... |
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w**t
发帖数: 1037 | 3 IMHO, for moive 5.1
option 1:
B&W 804s $2500
B&W htm1 $1500
B&W bookshelf like 685? $700
JL Audio F113 $2000
--total about $7000
option 2:
Revel F32 $1800
Revel C32 $1000 or C52 $1400
Revel S32 $900
Revel B15a $1300 or JL F113 $2000
-total about $5000- 6000
Both are mid-priced and not hard to drive,good for medium-large room.
I used to have Revel system with JL F112,can't be happier.
prices are for used ones and not 100% accurate |
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p********e
发帖数: 16048 | 4 Jwalk:
krell's integrated amp.. well, it was designed for a specific price point.
its circuit design and production does not have the soul of a real Krell. It
is desinged to capture the $2500~ market, which is what most "sane" person
would spend on an amp, and the price market is significantly bigger than the
>$2500...
but IMHO, it is not really a krell... |
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j***k
发帖数: 2719 | 5 should be okay..
i own a pair of piega c3 ltd with similar sensitivity. I drive them with a
18W SET from Viva. No problem.
BUT, IMHO, MF only makes mediocre power amps... once you get the Piega, it
would only be a short while until you would realize that a power amp
upgrade would be needed. welcome to the upgrade hell... |
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b**********y
发帖数: 7371 | 6 IMHO, for long HDMI cables(>15FT) choosing name brand products is a better
bet; and you can find those namebrand cables without the crazy price tags,
for example, u may look for it in Costco. I learnt my lessons on those
generic cables. |
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t********s
发帖数: 1534 | 7 I think you didn't really get out all of the potentials of your Ninka, IMHO.
Kairn/Klout combo are good, but it is widely agreed that 2 Klouts bi-amping
Aktiv Ninka is in different league.
Tukan was good, and it is also believed that Aktiv Tukan is even a lot
better.
But since you didn't believe in the aktiv setup of Linn, no need to bother
anyway. |
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a*****y
发帖数: 311 | 9 For the speakers that I have audited. Maggie 1.7 does sound a lot better
than traditional cone speakers as far as I can tell --- the clarity is
unmatched by the traditional speakers, although I think ML ElectroMotion is
probably even better in clarity. However I think Maggie 1.7 is very
sensitive to the quality of amplifiers. Yesterday I audited Maggie 1.7 first
on a 1600 amplifier and then a 16,000 one, definitely heard the difference.
I am doing my research online and found the following, thin... 阅读全帖 |
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m***s
发帖数: 215 | 10 Premium Dual 6.5" Floor-standing Speaker with tweeter horn. IMHO, Klipsch (
especially the ones that have tweeter and mid horn) is good for Karaoke. |
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f*r
发帖数: 3968 | 11 IMHO，
1。安全。要有Fraud保护。不然啥时候钱给你划别人帐上去了
2。Low cost。不要光看表面费用
3。选择多。选择多当然是好事。有人吃饭噎死了，不能说吃饭不是好事 |
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h*9
发帖数: 38 | 12 Too fast too soon, IMHO. |
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h*9
发帖数: 38 | 13 The 1970 recession is as severe as 1929 recession if adjusted for inflation.
But the drop in equity price is much different, one is close to 90% and
other is only 50%. One had a bear mkt for 20 years, another has it only for
3 years. IMHO, the key question is how gov will respond to this crisis, i.e.
how much $ they will print out from thin air.
1929, with gold standard, the world got into a deflation spiral, the winner
of next 20 years is of course bond.
If one buy bond in 1970 and hold it thro |
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K****D
发帖数: 30533 | 14 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
BJD (巴吉度) 于 (Wed Oct 1 09:42:52 2008) 提到:
发信人: psp (I love psp), 信区: Stock
标 题: trading and investment
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 1 02:38:16 2008)
the ppl at investment board are laughinng loudly at us while we jumped up
and down in the previous volatile two days.
imho, trading and investment are essential the same. there is no correlation
between the previous trade/invest and the next one.
just like fliping coins, we flip 100 times per year, they fli |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 15
market
is
+1, unless you get super slim spreads, day trading forex is like
blackjack - you start with -3% against the house.
Speaking of USD/CAD, it actually doesn't seem to me that the trend is
reverting, which IMHO needs two things to happen first: a) crude oil
needs to get into at least mid-term up trend, and b) the Canadian
economy needs to do better than the US, which seems very unlikely
considering how interconnected the two are. |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 16
(I think) Buffet was referring to the incredibly distorted yield curve,
which when eventually corrects will cause long-term government bonds prices
to go down a lot.
That does not necessarily translate to a crisis for the Dollar however,
IMHO.
In the end, how the Dollar fares against other currencies is not
determined only by the American economy, but also by others. The Dollar will
crash only when there emerges a market that is a) much safer than the US
during hard times, and b) grows faster t |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 17 Concur the call on mid-term bottom. Crude oil is surging despite the
inventory buildup, especially the far month contracts. IMHO, that
can't be explained by a weaker dollar alone, and has got to reflect
the expectation that the demand will be a lot higher later this year. |
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g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 18 Maybe I don't understand what's diversification. But diversify is to
reduce your risk right? But I show a graph with
most sectors and cap going in the same direction, deep down. So IMHO,
diversification cannot prevent big loss, that's how I define "not work".
I do show a strategy that will prevent big loss, with max drawdown < 20%
and single trade loss < 10%. That's at least working better than
diversification for the purpose of diversification. |
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a*******i
发帖数: 11664 | 19 IMHO, DBE, DBA, and DBB are also not bad. |
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s**********n
发帖数: 868 | 20 Last mild recession only last like half a year, and we are officially in
this greater recession for 1-1/2 years now.
IMHO, last time the market drops too early before the recession because the
bubble was too big (look at the valuation compared to this one) so that you
get a much longer bear market than then recession.
This time things are different. The market respond too mildly and too late
in the 10/2007-09/2008 period. When we are 1-1/2 years within the recession,
if we project the economy to |
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S******n
发帖数: 617 | 21 Good for refi if resonable fees.
Too early to buy one IMHO. Possible to rent one? |
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g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 22 Well, maybe the better way to answer this is:
This market is high risk, low reward. there're better
alternative investment vehicle. Even just buy A stock index is
better IMHO. |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 23
Well, OPEC's goal is 70-80, and they normally
underachieve, so that's the ceiling there.
IMHO it's quite possible to get as low as 45 before
end of year though. I read somewhere that China is
pretty much done with the strategic reserve fill-up.
The US is drawing from the inventory slower than
people anticipate. |
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d***f
发帖数: 155 | 24 I think Wuhan is a good candidate because of its strategic location, and
Jiaxing is also interesting due to quick commute to both Shanghai and
Hangzhou. Not now, but after the market cool off (hopefully soon), there
maybe opportunities there. Hangzhou's house market is way over priced IMHO,
too much speculation. |
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o*****c
发帖数: 241 | 25 Commodities are not weak IMHO. metals, softs, industrials and energy
subgroups are doing fine. only grains and meats are lagging. u may blame
those Midwest farmers. it has nothing to do with the global economy. |
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m******t
发帖数: 2416 | 26 IMHO the message Fed has been sending seems to be that the rate
isn't likely going to move until there is some substantial and sustained
job growth, which really seems to be that last shoe that's never going
to drop despite all the recovery cheers.
Obama just talked today about how the US "must get serious about
reducing debt". I don't exactly follow his twitter stream so maybe I'm
missing
something, but as far as I can tell that would be the first time he
publicly admits how bad the budgetary |
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s********h
发帖数: 158 | 27 Well said! good companies are not always good investments, since good
companies are usually priced at premium. Paying high prices for hot stocks
is a good recipe for underperformance. That being said, "usually" is not the
same as "always". IMHO, Mr. Markets misprices rather quite frequently, so
the virtue of patience is important.
The importanace of FA (both qualitatively and quantitatively) is well
discussed in Graham's Intelligent Investor.
Identifying leading companies in an industry is one g |
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l**********t
发帖数: 5754 | 28 a few things to consider
a) when do you retire/ how stable is your income, and what's the correlation
of your income to the market / do you have any debt, etc.
The closer you are to retirement/ the higher the correlation of your income
to market/the more debt/income ratio, the lower allocation to stocks and
more to bond.
b)do you plan to tactically allocate /rebalancing based on market condition?
if not, you don't need the 10% in cash. but if you do tactically re-allocate
, IMHO, 90% in stock is |
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K****D
发帖数: 30533 | 29 Aglee. However, considering matching, most people would have
over funded 401k if they max out. The ratio would be more than 3:1.
I personally think to be enough after retirement, one only needs
about 1.5-2M in total retirement balance at age 65. At an annual
yield of 8%, it means 401k vs Roth at 1:1 would be enough.
In another word, IMHO most Chinese are saving too much and thus
they should always consider Roth before 401k. (Super high salary
guys excluded.)
, |
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k***n
发帖数: 3158 | 30 来自主题: Investment版 - 有种感觉： 99** in dow reached this morning and we may get a rebounce in short term
but I won't play with it. My 401K are in all cash since the last call
too bad that I only have a few index funds in my 401K to invest in
I actually double shorted the market in my Roth and covered this morning
Again, I believe that this years high has been seen in late April
any rebounce down the road could be good opportunity to return to cash
position in 401K IMHO. A stronger storm may be coming very soon once the
right s |
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l**********t
发帖数: 5754 | 31 Actually positive feedback loop exists in the market (due to herding,
leverage, limited arbitrate, etc). the market boom & bust cycle (and the "
black swan" tail events) is just the manifestation of it. IMHO, recent
democratization of the stock market (discount brokerage with low txn cost,
index fund, leveraged ETF, access to futures & options) increases the
frequency of the cycle. For example, if most retail investors a) believe
shorting the financial sector stocks is a sure-bet and b) have eas |
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S*L
发帖数: 1746 | 32 When the price is reset to a reasonably low level,
people will flock back like in the early 2000's.
Currently the short sale/foreclosure prices are at
a reasonably low level, IMHO, below or at construction
cost.
Snow birds have to find a warm place. Don't tell me
that Arizona is more desirable with all the deserts...
long-
to |
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g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 33 I agree with your strategy for 15%, 25%, 28%.
However, most chinese on this board are in 25% bracket for single income,
28% for double income. That's when people worry about these problems.
And if household is below 68K, then the budget is really tight,
and I'd still recommend save some into 401K if possible, maybe not full
16.5K.
IMHO Investment strategy should not be only based on tax rate. You have
to think of uncertainty too. If you have too much money when you retire, you
pay a higher tax r |
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a**n
发帖数: 2431 | 34 But the crisis we will have in 5-10 years will be of historical proportion,
it should at least touch the historical low of DOW/GOLD ratio, most probably
will create a record low
IMHO |
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m**********r
发帖数: 887 | 35 Since LZ is not qualified for Roth IRA, max out 401K, 529 and still have
bunch of money to invest, I assume LZ is in the highest tax basket now, so
convert traditonal IRA to Roth is not a good idea now IMHO.
And non-deductible traditional ira is suitable in LZ's situation. |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 36 IMHO, your plan lineup are solid. The following are reasonably good.
JPMorgan Equity Index Fund - HLEIX tracks S&P 500 with 0.2% ER, very good.
Royce Premier Fund - RYPRX is excellent in S/Mid-Cap space, but right now S/
Mid-Cap may not be the good place to be in.
T. Rowe Price International Growth & Income - TRIGX is the only
international option you have, and I like its value tilt.
American Century Diversified Bond Fund - ADFIX is a decent bond fund.
You can have a solid and well diversified A... 阅读全帖 |
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m**k
发帖数: 18660 | 37 imho, 6 percent 401k match part at least. and roth ira
which
0.
to |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 38 I do not know so I paid these folks good money to figure it out.
EM bond IMHO is to get a tempered way to gain EM exposure, I do not treat it
as bond but equity.
Tim, since you own PFUIX I have a question for you. I know all PIMCO funds holdings are very convoluted and they used a lot of derivatives in order to generate extra returns, I could be wrong but they hold 50% US mortgage and corporate bonds according to Morningstar, but its prospectus says it will hold at least 80% that are economicall... 阅读全帖 |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 39 I think the CBs did the right thing to address the liquidity issue, but the
solvency issues remain, and there is nothing much monetary side can do about
insolvency, although liquidity freeze can turn into insolvency. It buys
some time for the EU politicians. If there is not much positive followup
from the fiscal side, the market will quickly drop.
Really, I think there is only one solution that will not rock the global
economy, the Club Med give up their fiscal sovereignty in exchage for fiscal
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g*****g
发帖数: 34805 | 40 It's so so, I got around $340 for 30 years, which IMHO, is cheaper
than yours. I got the quote online, there are a lot of websites like that. |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 41 The loss in itself is no big deal, BUT what concerns me is:
1) the breakdown of the risk control. Dimon was pretty much kept in the dark
until recently, and we are talking about one of the best-run banks and one
of the best banker.
2) Regulatory risk, which is even bigger. The loss play right into the hand
of the Volker rule supporters, and many people would like to see the
commercial banks to be like regulated financial utilities. If that view
prevails, JPM and other mega banks would lose signi... 阅读全帖 |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 42 I am not familiar with the funds you mentioned other than FCNTX, mainly
because it is in our 401(k). Will is a great manager, IMHO one of the best
in business, but it irks me a lot that Fido keeps it open at nearly $100B.
Adding other funds Will managed with similar style, the total probably is
above $120B. The only thing I can think of positively is the fees reduced a
little bit to 0.74%. Going forward, he will be hard-pressed to outperform
benchmark, it is just a cash cow for Fido.
Accroding t... 阅读全帖 |
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l******u
发帖数: 3169 | 43 I would choose I-bond v.s. TIPS... TIPs is only available in 5-yr and 10-yr
terms and that put you under too much interest rate risk, at least under
today's valuation. Assuming you don't make a ladder or hold your TIPs till
maturity. I-bond is a better variable interest-rate fixed income vehicle for
individual investor IMHO. The down side is you can only invest 10K annually
...
yet
startling
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r****m
发帖数: 1204 | 44 IMHO, what you described is 投机, not 投资, because you are referring to
timing of investment.
But please don't get me wrong - a little bit 投机 is fine, if you can afford
it. However, modern portfolio theory has already proven it - timing plays
a very small role in one's success in 投资.
我还没有能力把书本上的知识转化为钱, that's true, but that's fine, learning
itself is fun. |
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r**m
发帖数: 1825 | 45 Hehe, good question?
IMHO, I don't think they are better than Vanguard Index. But the super rich
don't think so, that is why they end up giving their money to Madoff. :-) |
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a*p
发帖数: 209 | 46 If you don't have a 5M+ net wealth, the best way to interview a FA is no
interview at all IMHO. |
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r**m
发帖数: 1825 | 47 It is unfortunate we have to live with a historically low interest rate, but
still it is better than putting all your money into the stock market casino
and lost half your money in the next bust (which could be close) when you
actually need the cash.
If the income is important to you, try lending club, it has its risks, but
better than stock maret IMHO. |
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t*****e
发帖数: 344 | 48 you are NOT qualified to make money as a flipper.
your time can be better spent IMHO |
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r****m
发帖数: 1204 | 49 纯探讨贴 -
Normally I am an advocate for holding a diversified portfolio which includes
some bond funds.
However, I think given the current rate environment, it's unwise to include
any bond fund in one's portfolio (unless you are at or near retirement stage
), especially for most members of this board which I assume are mostly young
to middle agers.
Bill Gross has been a big 反指 lately (in IMHO), don't follow him. |
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M********r
发帖数: 278 | 50 yes he is, but a fine one IMHO |
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