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| Updates on the Toronto Audiofest 2024- 10/18-10/20 It’s still on and closimg today. Preliminary reports are that because it got hammered in the preceding two years because of COVID, this year offering is “okay” but a noticeable step down from its fine and robust shows of yesteryears anecdotally,... | |
| Updates on the Toronto Audiofest 2024- 10/18-10/20 https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68673 | |
| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? Without prejudice to: (a) The oxymoron embedded in the title now ignored for purposes of a reply herein; and, (b) Before the bespoke merits of stepping up into the thin-air or oxygen-breather audio performance strata choices saddled with their u... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @ghdprentice +1 (emphasis added ) Nailed it …point, set, and match in tennis jargon….. full stop. There is no vinyl superiority over digital high resolution and properly mastered files played on a quality-build 2-channel system with worthy h... | |
| Oldies that stick in your head... EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Barry McGuire https://youtu.be/h-V1t0PLQ2E A protest song in 1965 that’s an applicable redux of those same or similar fears repeating today in 2024, with chaos in the Middle East, the continuing war in Ukraine, the China thr... | |
| Oldies that stick in your head... “Turn, Turn, Turn “ - The Byrds https://youtu.be/x8wKBJv4zCg?si=6-CaxXW97wLDWtW6 "Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger . The lyrics – except for the title, which i... | |
| Oldies that stick in your head... https://youtube.com/watch?v=UzgpB9xpyT8&si=o1293hwpFiNZhRt7 Never My Love" is a pop standard 1967 recording hit by The Association. Recorded by dozens of notable artists in the decades since, the music publishing rights organization (B... | |
| ??? How Much Would You Spend ??? @immatthewj +1 ( emphasis added); Two factors present themselves IMO in this thread where arbitrary and highly variable amp budgets are relegated to a distinct secondary notion. (1) To push that it’s some kind of a 100-year old accepted rule t... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands @soix. +1 .,,Nailed it. (1) each OEM brand option has its own bespoke sonic signature.System synergy matters = One size does not fit all. (2) Most of us are constrained by budgets in constant tension with a ceaseless urge to improve, includi... | |
| Classic Marantz and Citation vs modern Check out the numerous prior posts about “vintage” versus modern equipment. here is just one thread among many. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/the-allure-of-vintage-audio-gear/post?highlight=Vintage&postid=2728936#2728936 there a... | |
| Oh my goodness! @ozzy62 +1 A very first post on AGON that is a rambling manifesto about nothing other than audio class envy? Not a good look …. | |
| Best Bookshelf Speakers for "more" than near-field listening @soix nailed it ….. full stop. It’s a could-not-be-any simpler in-house A-B-C-D direct bakeoff exercise, just waiting to be implemented. | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear @artemus_5 +1 Give me a reason to go back with outdated devices? Nope… I’ve been in this crazy hobby since my early 70s university days (...the Jurassic Era of home audio) . “Vintage” in audi... | |
| Aliexpress Marketplace practices, be for warned. CARDAS AUDIO. https://www.cardas.com/counterfeit “…. Assuming you don’t work here (and statistically, you probably don’t), avoid AliExpress. They pretend to have a mechanism for reporting counterfeits, but it is littered with dead links and butt... | |
| Desktop - Nearfield Speakers: Totem Mite or Quad S1 FWIW, there is a contemporaneous post on near-field speakers currently on AGON https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/recommend-a-desktop-nearfield-speaker-for-me |