alaric62
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| Two questions to make you mad. This thread seems very...kenjit. | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, Still happy with my v.3 Paradigm Studio 60s. I'd be happier if I had my old ADS L1530s back, though. They were very good, IMO. | |
| What happen to MQA on Tidal? Soooo, physical media isn't really "dead" and I should hang on to my CDs? My fixed income and 3 Mbps internet (I kid you not, 3 Mbps) seem to have kept me from going down the streaming rabbit hole. Best of luck to all the early adopters, but I s... | |
| What was your first record? First record (45) was "Little Willy" by Sweet. (I was 10 years old). First album was about a year later, BTO's "Not Fragile" | |
| Costliest Brainfart Thought my future ex-wife wanted my stereo, so I sold it cheap so she wouldn't get her grubby mitts on it. Turned out she was a better person than I gave her credit for and never mentioned my rig. I still miss that gear. Definitely a brain fart. F... | |
| What's the point of reviewing? After enough time (years in my case), I found a few reviewers who have reviewed gear I've heard or owned, own, or thinking about owning. Their reviews jive very well with my own impressions of said gear. I came to understand what Kal Rubinson mean... | |
| What should my heirs do to dispose of my vinyl and CDs? Once again I am shown another reason to be grateful my daughter shares my passion for music and appreciation for my modest gear. It all goes to her when I'm gone. I know she'll keep and love it as much as I have, maybe more. I wish I had a ... | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus Ted Nugent a dozen times, stereos, Black Sabbath, BTO, years-no, decades, of engines and race tracks and dyno runs...a lifetime of poor judgment regarding my hearing. Now I have a permanent noise floor that sounds like 1000 metallic crickets. A ca... | |
| Show off! Sheryl Crow's "Tuesday Night Music Club", and some individual tracks like Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man" and the Hollies' "Long Cool Woman". A good copy of "Rock On" by David Essex is good, too. | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? I can't believe how many supposed grown men are whining about what other adults spent on their gear. "Insensitive"??? Why does that even appear here? My main rig has under $10k invested and if someone spent a million plus, good for them. It doesn'... | |
| Snowballs Eagles fans used to throw iceballs at the Dallas Cowboys. It was generally regarded as uncouth, until it was discovered some of those iceballs had D cell batteries in them. I think it was then regarded as felonious. I would imagine the NFL has a... | |
| Inherited a pair of JBL 4350 -- Need Advice $13k for some nice originals. | |
| MoFi controversy Good luck finding any vinyl (from the last 10? 15? years) that wasn't pressed from an original digital master. I'm sure someone, somewhere, is still using tape but they would be the rare exception proving the rule. | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Pioneer HPM60, when I was a teenager, but they weren't mine. The ones that I owned long after that did it, they were A/D/S L1530. | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing I find it interesting how many people believe any speakers, or any component, costing over X dollars (X being what they spent) is a "waste of money". Good $100,000 speakers do sound 5 times better than good $20,000 speakers. A lot of people just ... |