jssmith
Responses from jssmith
| What are your Eureka Moments in this Hobby? When I and others participated in a blind test. | |
| Do You Regret Selling Your Turntable and Albums ? Yes I did and no I don't. Sold almost all my CDs too. | |
| How old were you when audio gear first caught your interest? I built my first speakers when I was 17. | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued My first album in the 70's was Black Sabbath's Paranoid. I've been a metal-head ever since. I've progressed with it right up until about two years ago. With few exceptions, every metal-head knows the 70's, 80's and early 90's albums, so I won't g... | |
| Room treatments and acoustics…. How to begin? Read everything on Ethan Winer's website. In addition, you could read his as well as Floyd Toole's books. | |
| Sum Total Cost Of All Cables In Your Rig? About $100. | |
| Is ASR for real, or is it only for those sub $1k or even sub $2K? @dynacohum Agree. | |
| bits is bits Retired IT here too. Started working with network packets from banks and retail back in the 80's. Totally agree with your conclusion. And the amount of jitter in today's DACs is consistently shown to be far below the level of human audibility. | |
| What building my own speakers has taught me... Nice. I built my first speakers at 15 from Radio Shack parts. Since then I've built Linkwitz LX Minis and BFM Davids. I usually discourage people from DIY unless they have woodworking experience and tools because it usually winds up costing more ... | |
| How to dispose of your system? @rvpiano With the direction the market is going it wouldn't surprise me if TMR does not exist when your time comes. | |
| How to dispose of your system? After all us Boomers die out no one is going to want it, much less care about its synergy. Most likely they'd be listening to it in a different room anyway. I made a list of all my possessions that have value and just recommended a price comparis... | |
| AI and how you use it. @mahgister I'm not concerned with societal change. The economic change will come first and that will affect the new societal structure. People worry about eating before they worry about other things. We've never had anything except a labor-for-c... | |
| AI and how you use it. I stopped using ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Claude for most questions because Alexa+ is much more convenient. But I don't use any before I post on a forum. If I don't already know the answer I figure the OP can look it up themselves. | |
| Where were you when you first heard ""Born To Run"? My high school parking lot and I immediately hated it. It sounded like he was singing (shouting?) out of time with the music. | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? Hi-fi is already dead. As for AI, I spent decades in software development and the last two years studying AI. The vast majority of people, including many software developers, don't understand the magnitude of how the world is about to change. If ... |