hilde45
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| The Absurdity of it All Few points:First, your general point -- "dogmatism is bad" -- seems easy to grant. To that I would only add, "Mean people suck."Second, people who have learned to listen may have more to say than people who haven't, regardless of age. I used to t... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? @chakster I do NOT listen to any form of digital in my system at all and I don’t have TV at all. I only use wood for heat and power and I don't have indoor plumbing at all. Not bad, eh? ;-) | |
| Can Any Bookshelf Speaker Be Used Nearfield? I've not looked at the references above, but the short answer is "no" if there are multiple drivers that need some distance to integrate. Concentric drivers are helpful if you'll be really near. Some desktop speakers disperse the directionality fr... | |
| Tube/Hybrid Tube Preamps Below $2000 I love my Quicksilver Line Stage and it has paired nicely with power amps (or power amp sections) of Atoll and Adcom. It adds dimensionality and warmth, and a change of tubes from JJ to some nice 1960's Valvo tubes ($200 for the pair) really made ... | |
| MQA is for chumps Possibly of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy58d5Y4J_s&ab_channel=TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel | |
| Speakers The single most critical component Room+Speakers get my vote. The whole system is an ecology so the "everything is important" argument is powerful. But, the question of "which is the most important component" provides the frame in which the question must be answered -- and the "eve... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Zappa: "Help, I'm a Rock"Beatles: "Number 9."Cage: 4' 33" | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice @yogiboy @djones51 Thank you for the reference to that thread. Hearing the argument that "P.S. Audio claims they are perfect and why do you believe them?" wasn’t providing the technical details I repeatedly asked for. So I appreciate YOU reading a... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice Perhaps you don’t have an engineering explanation. This is not about claims or perfection or whatever. I’m trying to get to the bottom of what their product does and whether that obviates the need for a conditioner. They claim to take AC power and... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice @lowrider57 @millercarbon It does seem that each unit is stand alone. P.S. Audio claims that, based on how their unit works. Decware, however, says that it is and it isn't stand alone. His website clearly says that using both units can be complem... | |
| Band names made up of audiophile jargon @samhar May I amend that to "Telefunky"? | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice @millercarbon I love House! Great show. And I understand why manufacturers mislead or lie. But if a regenerator’s very design obviates the need for a conditioner -- which is a statement of fact (either true or false) -- then its being uttered by a... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice Circling back to the Decware vs. regenerator issue. Here is what P.S. Audio wrote to me when I asked them about using both: "I don’t agree with the statement from Decware [that Decware's conditioner can be used in addition to a regenerator]. We d... | |
| Why do some think "music" (not gear, trading, etc.) is the ultimate end? @rvpiano Know exactly what you mean. I won’t prattle on about this, but Pirsig’s Zen and the Art novel does a good job of explaining why we take these different moments of ourselves and divide them into categories -- such as "left brain/right brai... | |
| Band names made up of audiophile jargon Ok, these really got me!Classless DThe Bi Wire FlyersTone def |