gbmcleod
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| After a while it’s just sounds. Music has been one of the joys of my life for the past 70+ years. I’m just glad I got to hear it when it was analogue. I find I still enjoy it more when it is vinyl. The delivery system counts in my book. I have an excellent CD player, but still ... | |
| Question for the older folks- did you ditch vinyl when cd arrived? Not A Chance in Hell! I accumulated all the records I hadn’t gotten during the sixties, which meant the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Moody Blues, records I hadn’t collected in the 1960s 1n 1970s. I was still in San Francisco, still... | |
| Do Audiophiles really like music? @kjweisner Fantastic response. And it made me smile, thinking back to sneaking peeks at Playboy in 1964, and how 'naughty' that was. 😃 | |
| Do Audiophiles really like music? Some of us LOVE our music. And have love it long before the audiophile movement showed up, circa 1971. I’ve loved music, even on my father’s old stereo, since 1955, when I was a kid. And I know music: writing, playing it. So, yes: it is the music... | |
| Do Audiophiles Hear Real Differences, or Are They Justifying Expensive Purchases? An interesting thread. | |
| Furutech GTX NCF receptical break in, how long As LAK suggested: a fan. It draws current steadily. I’ve had Furutech outlets since 2011, and yes, they take that along to burn in. However, mine doesn’t sound as horrible as some other posters seem to have. I just notice it as "stiff," like a n... | |
| Nordost vs Shunyata speaker cables- and the winner is . . I would agree that Nordost adds ’nothing’ to the signal, but it does subtract from the signal. It is still "lightweight" in the upper bass and lower midrange, although far better than the first generation, top of the line Nordost cables (circa 200... | |
| Wilsons new flagship @audioman58 HOLD ON, pardner. I think you added an extra "0" to the cost of a custom paint job. I saw an additional price of 12 -15k for custom colors for this speaker. I knew Dave Wilson before he was DAVE WILSON!!! And Dave, while expensive,... | |
| “Civilian” reaction to your gear? That was supposed to read, "It's no surpise that the young 'uns think audiophiles are delusional and 'hearing things.' | |
| “Civilian” reaction to your gear? @kerrybh I agree with your comment about how people used to congregate at audio salons and learned about music. A corollary though, is that the music we had available spanned the time from analogue to digital, so many of us were accustomed to ac... | |
| Do you buy new, used or new or used gear? Both. I used to buy items new, but that was when I first began buying High End components, circa 1985. Twenty years later, I bought a used speaker system (Hales Revelation IIIs), and have often bought used components, although some things I will ... | |
| Is AI taking over audio gear research? The Editor in Chief of The Absolute Sound, in an editorial several months ago, talked about how he’d written an article, and AI, without his input, regurgitated a stream of information - and none of it was what he’d said. He said, in fact, that th... | |
| Do Audiophiles Hear Real Differences, or Are They Justifying Expensive Purchases? @rauliruegas You misunderstand what I wrote. I said high end equipment was designed by designers using acoustic instruments to complete their audio designers.What I did NOT say is that musicians didn’t use them. Who would dismiss electric guita... | |
| Do Audiophiles Hear Real Differences, or Are They Justifying Expensive Purchases? @ten_ton_bass I would amend "poor hearing" to "untrained listening." I’d been going to opera/symphonies for at least 6 decades. But when I got into High End audio, I did not know HOW to listen. Some people think they’ll plunk themselves down ... | |
| Is anyone still using a CD Player Well, I have DCS, Arcam, and JVC players. I can’t imagine ever selling the DCS. Music is music to me, although vinyl (and tubes) have qualities I don’t yet hear on CDs or streaming (not my own; I don't have a streaming service). But, for all that... |