rick847
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| Buying Used Speakers I bought mine from a store that I'd been going to for decades with a strong reputation that given your s/n you probably know. The last pair of 2.4s they had were first sold months before I came in and found them, in the finish I wanted, no less. ... | |
| Maggie owners (past, present, future) what do (did) you love and or dislike about them? My first personal purchase was a 500 dollar pair of Maggie starters back in the early 80s. I noticed the usual weaknesses like they needed proper placement and had terrible drop off if you weren't on axis. This didn't bother me much since the spea... | |
| Vindication at Last! $500, about the cost of Analogue Productions Ultra Tape R2R. | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right I've always though two recordings sounded much better in analogue : Frank Zappa's Hot Rats and Harris's 3rd. I can't tell the difference with a lot of recordings but then again I'm just a sub-audiophile. | |
| Oppo Ceasing production It's a Chinese owned. Although operating independently it's finances come from China. I think the decision has more to do with Chinese retaliation against tariffs than anything else. | |
| Thiel Customer Service - New ownership is terrible!!! - WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS COMPANY ? I tried to call both American Airlines and StubHub. I was informed of a long wait time and offered a call back when my turn came, 20 to 45 minutes later. I tried 5 times with A.A. and never got a call, only once with StubHub and didn't get a call ... | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? I don't belong to any clubs but subscribe to the Spec and Absolute Sound. These pastimes are both examples of connoisseurship . In both there have been examples of the connoisseurs telling the scientific experts of a problem and being discounted. ... |