denverfred
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| Adding a “safe haven” forum for discussion of tweaks? Poetry is the music of print. If every single one of us was a tweak. Where would the entertainment come from? We all know that deep down we come here to get a good laugh--or whatever visceral reaction we’re looking for when we aren’t using music... | |
| HiFi vs MidFi Before the inevitable debate over how high 'high' is, may I submit that everyone--all of us here, certainly--listen to "Mid-fi" systems due to the fact that there is no metric for measuring this particular form of highness as though it was a measu... | |
| Why so many tubes? Reminds me of a midnight trip with a buddy to visit the transmitter building at KCMO AM in Kansas City. That's a 50KW clear channel hair dryer. Those guys were using some tubes big enough to be landed aliens. Anyone here ever worked a site like that? | |
| Why the hate for mcintosh amps? I broke-in during the 70's when Mac was making the most durable stuff ever and was actively marketing solid state gear. Their well-deserved reputation for quality-at-a-price was built on their still very desirable tube products. IMO that old Mac... | |
| Putting an end to the audio cable debate! Part 1 Amir admitted he could hear the difference! Dionysian audiophiles everywhere rejoice! | |
| Are Fall Sales Leveling Out in the Used Market? Wow! Never seriously considered it but 700,000 dead Americans of which 300,000 are male and maybe 10% own "decent" stereos. Can we figure 1% are serious "audiophiles"? 2%? That's about 6,000 deceased audiophiles this year just from Covid.The whole... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? Remember that NOISE removal is the problem we face. Noise being any thing not in the original source. Since it deals with low level information, the preamp is the most likely source of noise of all sorts. Listening to a truly low noise preamp can ... | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? Magnepan/Audio Research Remember the old David Beatty quote: "Buy the best and cry once." | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? NO | |
| Experience with HFTs I started out with a Level 2 installation of UEF's. A log of bang for the buck and you can move 'em around to custom tune. It gave me a baseline that was listenable in a difficult room while I figured out the rest of it--bass traps, dispersion pan... | |
| Are Fall Sales Leveling Out in the Used Market? The 2% got theirs from 45 and continue to prosper until new tax laws are passed. Notice the recent crop of hyper-expensive cars on the street? What about the new McMansions cropping up in older areas of town? The winners are finally working their ... | |
| Which component to upgrade to improve bass control? stuartk: Before you get involved in all the expense and to-do of all the good suggestions so far, are you using AC conditioning and upgraded AC cables? Both will really affect bass definition. Especially in multi-unit buildings. Even if you do all... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different Emotions being so fleeting and ethereal, their accurate measurement seems unlikely in my lifetime. We attempt the impossible all the time: Greeting cards, gifts, law suits, acting graciously toward others. Meanwhile, I try to enumerate things with... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different Maybe best to look outside the usual fields of study on this question. While very valuable research is being done by some of the righteous electricians--work essential to the design and engineering process--efforts to quantify aesthetics fail repe... | |
| If Power Cords Don't Matter... Give me placebos, or give me death! I have repeatedly called on our valuable electrician freaks to publish the tests proving lamp cord equal to Synergistic Galileo. Why are they hiding these definitive tests that would save all of us so much money... |