No brand names?
What will you not buy?
No brand names please and choices need not have any particular aesthetic or technical justification.
For me:
No black ash.
Nothing with more than 4 tubes.
Square or rectangle headphones.
Cables with batteries or box like protrusions.
Gobbly gook word salad descriptions. (It can be bs, but needs to be good bs.)
I won’t buy anything from companies whose products I owned, but the products had issues they didn’t fix. I had a high-end power amplifier with transformer hum. The manufacturer didn’t suggest a DC blocker (and obviously didn’t build one into the product). At the time, I was a young audiophile & didn’t know about that, either. I would hope the manufacturer would know better. Another manufacturer pushed their streaming solution as "state of the art," but it didn’t do gapless playback. They promised a fix. It took years and years and required spending more money. Both those firms are OFF my buy list permanently. |
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@secretguy + 1 |
LOL! I feel that was worth at least a +2! |
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@ozzy62 And why would you, you still have a wall to build. One thing at a time. |
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1) 68 years old and never bought a vehicle that was not UNION. No foreign vehicles. If it wasn’t built in US. Canada or Mexico, and Union I pass. Think I’m at about 40 of them now. 2) Only Snap-On Tools 3) Nothing but John Deere lawn equipment. 4)No disco, Rap, Hip Hop or Twangy Country 5) No junk audio components. No matter how good the deal. Currently have all Legacy Audio, Amps and all. |
mapmanWhere's the like button! Me neither. |
@mikelavigne Thank you.
Shame the usual partisan's don't feel the same. (Maybe they should go back and read Thumpers Mother)
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@secretguy, +1000. Thank you for saying what I thought. I’m with you! |
@ozzy62 +100. 👍 |
It’s easy to love those that look like us, think like us, and agree with our views. Loving those we don’t agree with is much harder, if we even try. But we all want mercy when we need it. We want our family members respected out in the world regardless of their beliefs. To think that a child, or elderly parent, or someone we love would be mistreated because of political views is scary. It’s happening too much, and we are all less safe because of it. We are chewing each other up, and none of us know the entire truth in any of it. Just the truth the people we listen to tell us. I don’t trust my ‘side’, I know that. I find loving those I don’t agree with and understand helps me justify my selfish life to a degree. But I’m a world away from loving my neighbor as myself, that’s for sure. Sorry for the sermon, I’m tired of fighting. Surely loving can’t be as unfulfilling.
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@mikelavigne: So you’re not, for instance, anti-racism? How about record companies ripping off artists? Greed? Rape? Murder? It’s okay, we all occasionally say silly things. 😉
As for myself, I will never again buy any non-dipole planar loudspeaker. A speaker with 3, 4, or 5 dynamic drivers trying to reproduce a musical signal? Surely you jest! For less than the price of those huge behemoth monstrosities containing multiple dynamic drivers and complex crossovers, you can have a pair of full-range SoundLabs electrostatic speakers, a pair of Magnepan MG30.7’s, or even the cute little Eminent Technology LFT-8’s. Add a pair of the GR Research/Rythmik Audio Servo-Feedback Open Baffle/Dipole Subwoofers (your choice of two or three 12" woofers), and enjoy the seamless reproduction of all frequencies, for lifelike vocal and instrumental timbres. Many speakers employ crossovers which divide the frequency spectrum into separate parts, sending those parts of the recorded sound to different drivers, and do so right in the heart of the musical signal, where vocals and the center of most most musical instruments lie. Like humpty-dumpty, they will never be put back together again perfectly enough to satisfy me. I learned that the hard (and expensive) way. And I haven’t even mentioned life-like image size and scale. A 5" dynamic driver reproducing the sound and scale of a grand piano? Can’t be done, never will be.
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