jhills
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| Cable curmudgeon @thyname This is funny and ironic. Apologizing to the OP? 😂😂 Never occurred to you that the OP is the issue here, and the subsequent follow through. Disgusting 🤮 Wow, judging from this post and many of your others, here as of late, I'm starting ... | |
| Cable curmudgeon @twoleftears So would a whole bunch of bibs and bobs be a month of sundries? Professionally or subjectively speaking? | |
| Cable curmudgeon @terry9 +++ It seems that, on this forum, those who have an opinion based on their experience as a musician, recording engineer, equipment technician or otherwise professionally involved in music or it’s production, receive the most amount of ire... | |
| “House” Character of Popular $20-$30k Speakers @nyev my main issue with panels is that they ONLY sound good (and really good) in the sweet spot. Not at all what I've found. In fact, I find my Maggies, after detail to placement and set up, to image off axis better than any box speaker I've hea... | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns @ghdprenticeThe incredible positive reinforcement I have received by attention to detail and paying attention to what stuff sounds like has been so rewarding it is amazing. I can agree. I greatly enjoy exploring and auditioning fine audio gear, ... | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns I Can't quite determine if OCD is a pre-requisite to becoming an Audiophile or is an affliction brought on by being one. Not that I don't believe in matching components and speakers to work together; not that I don't believe in proper set up of r... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? Just my 2 cents: Worked with several internationals from India (all very intelligent and well educated) some had family come over from India for a tour of USA and spent a few days at our work site. Joquime introduced his family visitors by name a... | |
| Why do folks spend more on electronics than on speakers? @Ryder In general, I think your assessment is pretty accurate. Regardless of cost or allocation of costs, I think, aside from one's overall budget, some important things to consider: 1) Matching your speakers to the size, aesthetics, and overa... | |
| Intergrated Amp suggestions for B&W 805d4 Sorry if already mentioned and I missed, but, if you can find used anywhere available to you, an Ayre AX-5 or AX-5e (not the newer 20 series) The original AX-5, to my ears, for ultra detailed diamond speakers like the B&W Ds and the Raidho dia... | |
| Fedex and Ups Damage thread @coltrane1 Even with very good packing, trusting the shipment of high dollar Jazz Archtop guitars to Fedx or UPS and never having an issue, I would say not only were you lucky but maybe charmed. Except for the speakers mentioned, which were total... | |
| Fedex and Ups Damage thread Small, double boxes well packaged items ie. CDPs, CD transports, etc I’ve had good luck with. Several years ago I bought, from a seller with a record of good feedback, a pair of B&W 802, Matrix II Speakers, to be shipped half way across the c... | |
| Electric cars will ruin late night listening? Sometimes I think we spend more time listening for and obsessing about noise than we do listening to music. I live in sunny hot AZ where everyone has large power hungry HVAC units. I also have one that, in the summer, day and night, runs most of ... | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? I found that with detail to set up and positioning (using measurements and tape tape to mark changes) and by positioning with the tweeter section of my Maggies to the outside rather than inside, I was able to get very good and detailed imaging and... | |
| Magnepan and Bob Carver Raven amps Was running my Maggie 1.7s with my Rogue Cronus Mag.II until last AZ Summer persuaded me to switch away from extra heat of tubes back to my old stand-by ADCOM 200/350 W SS amp. I don’t listen at ear numbing levels, so the Rogue @100W per channel,... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Makes you wonder how the designers, engineers and builders of the (some very expensive) audio equipment we've had over the past 50 or 60 years, were able to develop a single thing without the use of a special high dollar magic cable to let them kn... |