Best Forum to hear experienced audiophiles exchange thoughts?

The way I see it, an initial post is more a conversation starter than a demand for a precise response. After all weren't these websites once commonly referred to as "chat rooms?" I see threads as social gatherings. Not as visits to the doctor.

You are absolutely right.... I missed everyone here in the last 10 months... These forums are not only there for clinical information but for discussion in general... We can only appreciate people with which we discuss...Anyway my system is good enough now, and i dont plan to upgrade at all...The advice i can give or receive are only cherries on the cake of socialization with friends...By the way i loved EVERYONE especially those with whom i disagree in the past...But being imperfect i never stop if i can object ... :)

My best to you edcyn

The way I see it, an initial post is more a conversation starter than a demand for a precise response. After all weren’t these websites once commonly referred to as "chat rooms?" I see threads as social gatherings. Not as visits to the doctor.

Hi @mahgister , and welcome back! It was me who started a thread in your absence, asking if anyone knew what had happened to you. I missed your contributions, and I'm really glad to see you back with us.

Thanks for your kind thoughts about me...

I was not well but now it is very good... I sold my house and the ordeal was very hard on me... No acoustic room.... but a benediction in disguise, now i regret not my research around the AKG k340 headphone, one of the more complex and best designed headphone ever on the ratio Price/sound quality...

I did not even see your thread because i lost my password here and being ill and in a turmoil with no audio room i was not motivated at all to try to reenter here ...And even now i am not sure i will be able to reenter with my password when i will close the computer... my computer did not close for the last 24 hours...It is the reason why i am here... I must ask for my password each time i come and i dont know why...

Now i wanted to come back because it is different my health is good and my system is even better than in the past with my room because the headphone goes under 30 hertz and go beyond the higher frequencies of my past Mission Cyrus speakers and no acoustic control can replace that....Thanks to Dr. Gorike patent for the K340...Becauase of his acoustic tuned resonators the soundfield is speaker like and out of the head...But i needed to figure out how to modify them , anti- vibrations two different products and cutting off the internal obstructive grid... I even go beyond my beloved Sansui AU 7700 for an improved more powerful and cleaness Sansui AU 607i... The K340 are the hardest headphone to drive and not only because they are hungry ...

The difficulty to create a working hybrid is so great and costly, i spoke to Kennerton headphone in Russia and they candidly said to me that they tried to create a hibryd headphone for years but it is too complex to do right et too costly... AKG for these reason never improved the K340 and did not enter in a new hibryd race ever even if this K340 was their flagship for some years and trust me it is a good headphone ... It is an unrecognized marvel...

I am in heaven ... But it takes me 6 months to figure out how to drive them... :) I do not recommend this headphone to the average beginners at all... All negative reviews on the net comes from reviewer who put them out of the bag and connect them and listen to them few hours... I experimented all their negative first impressions in the beginning  but i figured out why their impressions was not a true description of the real K340 potential at all but reflected their complete non- understanding of what is a true hybrid headphone and how to improve the dual  shell/chamber  where the tuned resonators acted the same way the Helmholtz resonators i used worked in my room...  Most reviewers are most of the times useless...They sell products one after the other... Acoustic is more  helpful... For me at least...

My enthusiasm for audio and music is then there again more than ever...Even with no acoustic room... ( it takes me 2 years to tune my room by the way then i was sad when i closed it definitively because my big house must be sold  )

I am vey glad to speak to you again and i hope you had been healthy and will be...

My best to you my friend...

Hi @mahgister , and welcome back! It was me who started a thread in your absence, asking if anyone knew what had happened to you. I missed your contributions, and I’m really glad to see you back with us.

 

By the way, i tried and did go on many forums. but the best ever is audiogon, for the human dimension...In some forums "tweakers" are not welcome, in some others they are bent to sell products mainly and dont like too much criticism about some products even in an indirect way ... In many forums the human discussion is not as free and interesting as here , it is one of the best...