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What I learned on Audiogon This Year

Things I learned from the forums this year:

1) In n Out Burger is the best fast food in the world, and Father's Office is the best Burger in LA (thanks BongoFury).

2) Widespread Panic and Arcade Fire are great bands.

3) All Digital is the wave of the future through downloads and analog is dead.

4) Analog is back to audio dominance and will continue to grow, digital is a trend and will die off except for convenience sake.

5) Don't ever say anything derogitory regarding certain types of gear that are defended by thier ______-mafia gangs. Especially___________________________.

6) Expensive Power cords are a still the biggest snake oil in audio.

7) Speakers are the most important place to start building a system.

8) Analog sounds better than digital.

9) Blu Ray is dead in the water, downloads for all media, video and audio is now the standard and will only continue to grow.

10) This is not a hobby, but a terrible affliction/addiction, and I need to change out some more gear.
macdadtexas
audiofeil
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Expensive cables are always better.

Tubes and solid state do not sound different.

Analog is superior to digital.

Balanced cables perform better.

Digital is superior to analog.

Unbalanced cables perform better.

There is no relation between advertising and good reviews.

The forums are completely uncensored.

Every cartridge for sale has less than 75 hours of use.

10/10 can be anything from 5/10 to 9/10.
mickeyf
153 posts
 
13) What jeans to wear....
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jsaah
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1.There are always at least two A'goners waiting for me to list an item for sale, so that they can list the same item for less at the same time.

2.Most items for sale on A'gon have the magical quality of staying "new' or "like new" or "still in the box" or "only opened to take this photo", even though they were purchased 5-10 years ago.

3.The majority of A'gon items for sale are "Reference quality", "sound better than the newer, updated model", and are used by some famous reviewer (usually "Mikey") in their personal system.

Happy New Year dear audiophiles! May we all retain our senses of humor, even as we continue to be driven to the brink of insanity by this crazy hobby of ours.
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r_f_sayles
872 posts
 


...talk can be cheap and listening can be priceless.

Happy, the later!
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porschecab
336 posts
 
a) Everything is Seller Suggested "Priced to Sell" - when in fact isn't that the buyers decision?

b) I love headphones.

c) A headphone system is not substantially less expensive than a nice small room system!

d) Sometimes you have less than 1 day to pay for something or you will get negative feedback.

e) Several folks here are into racing, especially those I met at the Monterey Historics (or whatever it is called these days).

f) Rockpile Zin rocks (2008 vintage).

g) Transducers can actually SMOKE if overdriven.......
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