pesky_wabbit
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| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear The Hindu Love Gods eponymously named album. Warren Zevon backed b REM in a rather “relaxed” state laying down some standards in remarkable form. Really informal and never intended for release and all the better for it. Both Warren and REM show wh... | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? Townshend Rock II turntable Second hand Thorens TD150 - add some chassis damping, a solid base board, new springs Armageddon PSU and a decent arm and you aren‘t far off a an early Linn Robertson 4010A power amp - a Krell on the cheap if you get ... | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? Is it ok for those who follow false gods to use derogative language against the true believers? Ask Salman Rushdie….. | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? I like the quote 'Art is not a mirror, art is a hammer'. https://youtu.be/tUiP5eyx3NM Sigh….. | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? Organised religion is the single worst thing in the history of the world. We all wish Mr Rushdie a return to good health. +1 - It is becoming increasingly difficult to protect our hard won secular freedoms from the resurgence of global religio... | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? I believe that the Catholic Church has been found to act in a manner infinitely more blasphemous than could be accomplished by the spoken word.... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing As long as there is kudos to be gained by dropping that you just laid out six big ones on speakers at the Ukrainian orphans charity ball I am sure speaker manufacturers will be sure to oblige….. | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Gale GS401A, I bought a pair instead of a second hand car and got my first taste of real high end audio. More open midrange than Spendor and they could Rock ! Took them round to an ESL57 owner and it was immediately apparent what had been used to ... | |
| New equipment Quite often audiophiles will buy a component because it enables them to hear “things in the music they have never heard before”. This can sometimes be a real trap if you aren’t an experienced listener. Quite often it is the result of an unnatural... | |
| How Audiphiles are Different I think many listeners of my generation have developed an inbuilt noise rejection mechanism from decades of listening to vinyl. When someone points it out you can hear it, but otherwise it somehow vanishes into the subconscious part of the psyche.... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Speaking of ‘walk on by’. My favourite version and totally kick ass https://youtu.be/jqfqVDHNW6c | |
| Preamp help please! I would clean the pins and learn to sleaze it for a while.. | |
| I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged. taking a tube amp and measuring it against a modern chip amp is a lesson in futility. Engineers have been able to get cheap chip amps to measure perfectly for some time now, and the kinds of outcomes that Amir bleats from the rooftops were never i... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? combo of Takman Rey, Rex and Z foils I too have found that a very pleasing blend can be made from a combination of these, and at a pretty reasonable cost.. | |
| SQ or performance? the fact that you had to ask the question says a lot about audiophilia… |