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| Question for the older folks- did you ditch vinyl when cd arrived? I was actually employed as the Audio Guy in the wood paneled Audio room at a Newmark & Lewis store. Demoing the very first CD players for an amazed audio public. At one point I started to believe my own bullshit and I hopped in with them. ... | |
| The Best Music You Have Ever Heard? Sinatra’s You Go To My Head from Nice & Easy. G’head, go get yourself in a Love and Lust vacuum with someone from the Top Five list of people you very much shouldn’t have...intoxicating your soul with her eyes is fucking real. Paul Simon’s H... | |
| Roon changes the music I'm not streaming and I don't think I ever will, but I'm finding this discussion extremely interesting. | |
| Is anyone still using a CD Player Definitely not using the CD player. I long ago became way too lazy to dig out a CD. The heavens know that I can’t even organize them effectively, which prompted me years back to use large CD carrying cases where I get rid of the jewel case and sti... | |
| Anyone knows these speakers? blackbird55 Sounds great... keep listening. And don't buy anything new unless you absolutely have the need to. DON"T CHASE THE DRAGON WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE THE FIRE AND SPEED OF THE HAWKS ENJOY I f'king love it. 'Don't chase the dragon...' | |
| 10-15 year old hi end DACs are still great. In Reading and Responding to this thread, it makes me think about how interesting it might be to start looking back to these classic pieces that thrilled us back in the 90s. The thing that tickles your 'listening mojo' the most can really come fro... | |
| 10-15 year old hi end DACs are still great. With a few exceptions, I’d think really good sounding stereo hasn’t Earth shatteringly changed in the last couple of decades. Delivery Systems changed, the way we deal with bits changed, but a really good rig from 1999 still sounds like a really g... | |
| Estate planning question noromance 06-17-2026 at 05:40pm Actually, there’s a service some entrepreneur, or Audiogon themselves could provide. The entire system could be listed, Blue-booked, and auctioned when the time comes. And they too will be in business to give ... | |
| Visited a Store and was shunned How interesting this whole Lynch Mob thing gets. You heard one side of a story and you’re convinced that the store is a whole bunch of things, seriously, too numerous to even recount two pages into the subject with all these vitriolic us against t... | |
| Visited a Store and was shunned parkergetdean 06-19-2026 at 10:25am my wife would say: "you are not buying zilch!" What are you doing with my wife and what time are you sending her home? | |
| Visited a Store and was shunned To the OP, your entire experience is completely on those two sales guys. Because they're not here to give another side of the story, we don't know what really transpired at that moment or what kind of vibe, maybe you might have given off when you... | |
| Concert Ticket Prices - Not a Rant - Just an Observation I’m pretty sure I posted this before but I use it as a measure of a few things. Elvis 1975, $12.50. And he happened to have been magnificent that afternoon. My friends and I were very active through the 70s and ’80s between clubs and College tour... | |
| Do you buy new, used or new or used gear? https://forum.audiogon.com/users/kennyc Thanks for the clarification, kennyc. However, my life and my money, more importantly, is based on choices. The Hobby can run on anything you think it should run on, but for the practical amongst ... | |
| Do you buy new, used or new or used gear? https://forum.audiogon.com/users/mark200mph Amen, Mark. | |
| 2026 best deal in audiophile class D stereo amp? I second the PS Audio Stellar M700 monos. I find them extremely adaptable to whatever I’ve sent through them and they do the job, expertly, without banging you over the head with a particular sound. It’s just power that doesn’t sound like it’s th... |