tomaswv
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| Visited a Store and was shunned Opposite experience. Many, many years ago I was in California on business and decided to stop in a brick and mortar audio store. Not really shopping to buy, but the staff was friendly and insisted on showing me the new Dali Epicon 6s, way out of m... | |
| Startling AI results. Nogaps. Love it. Calling me out for clickbait. I have met the enemy and he is…wait a minute… | |
| Did The Absolute Sound use an AI chatbot to review the Soulution 717 monoblock amp? This is our future. It’s schlock. | |
| Startling AI results. As for being exacting in word choice, the burden is on the technology. Way too many variable in people’s language skills. In fact, one the the benefits of AI is that I don’t have to form a complete sentence to get a reasonable response. Years ago... | |
| Startling AI results. In the words of a 1928 New Yorker cartoon “I say it’s spinach and I say the hell with it.” Joking aside, I’ve been asking “is a better than b” and the ai answers often are incorporating what I believe to be marketing hype—either from the manufact... | |
| Your top 3 Charles Lloyd and the Marvels: Tone Poem Charles Mingus: Three or Four Shades of Blue Jack DeJohnette: In Movement | |
| Streamer/preamp question Lanx0003, I agree about biased expectations. I’m very happy with my Atoll IN 300 (Evolution model) because of the rich midrange and precise imaging and overall weight. These are individual preferences— my hearing doesn’t go much above 13,000 hz so... | |
| Streamer/preamp question Thanks. That’s basically what I’m doing. I’ve switched to the Cambridge as preamp and have listened for a couple of days already and will continue in this configuration for a week or so. I have a trusted list of tracks that I’ve used over the yea... | |
| Your oldest gear? Speakers. Dali Mentor 6 purchased in 2012 if I remember correctly. I started to replace them last year with smaller lighter speakers but ended up keeping them and buying a pair of Dali Menuet SEs which was the start of my office system. | |
| Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection Andy McKee and NEXT: Sound Roots. Hard to find Mapleshade CD Rosanne Cash: Rules of Travel. My go-to test CD for many years. Cleveland Symphony: A New Century. Three SACDs and hi Rez download. Especially Strauss aus Italien on disc 2. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Chieftans: Water from the Well Andy McKee and NEXT: Sound Roots | |
| XLR vs RCA In my system XLR has always sounded better than RCA, using same company same level cables. And when I ran monoblocks, XLRs never had a hum issue. I kept one pair of RCAs for emergency use but everything I buy will be XLR compatible. | |
| I'd like some recommendations for speaker cables My long term speaker cables are Morrow SP5s (bi-wire). My journey included Audioquest Bedrocks, Acoustic Zen Sartoris (shotgun) and Nordost Heimdall and Frey (both version 1). They all sounded great, and each company sound was different. I kept ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? New Gwenifer Raymond release: Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark. John Fahey lives! Very clean recording. | |
| New house, wife reveals she hates my Maggies- looking for stand mount speaker suggestions + on the Alta Alyssa. I love the sound and finish of my tiny Dali Minuet SEs in my small office set up. Their larger high end standmounts may be worth looking into. Epicon 2s for example. |