agitater

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We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often
Speaker designers are driven by their education, experience, practice, and their personal sense of hearing, and they're sometimes also biased by what they or their marketing partners believe is consumer preference at a certain price point. How eac... 
How much does DAC ‘Reality’ cost in 2017?
The North Star Audio DACs do it for me. The Supremo is the top of the line. It's a stellar performer. It's as transparent to the source material as anything I can imagine, and more important, more transparent than anything else I've ever owned or ... 
Speaker damage?
The static you heard is no different in frequency range from the loud static heard between stations when running through the FM dial on a tuner. Speakers are meant to produce sound at rather loud volumes. What happened was that you were startled w... 
Speaker Cable Questions
Blue Jeans Cable. Top quality Belden wire, top quality connectors (including locking bananas which are great), very good strain relief, proper termination loading, excellent insulation, excellent shielding. Made in the U.S. by a very good company,...