alaric62
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| Snowballs Eagles fans used to throw iceballs at the Dallas Cowboys. It was generally regarded as uncouth, until it was discovered some of those iceballs had D cell batteries in them. I think it was then regarded as felonious. I would imagine the NFL has a... | |
| Inherited a pair of JBL 4350 -- Need Advice $13k for some nice originals. | |
| MoFi controversy Good luck finding any vinyl (from the last 10? 15? years) that wasn't pressed from an original digital master. I'm sure someone, somewhere, is still using tape but they would be the rare exception proving the rule. | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Pioneer HPM60, when I was a teenager, but they weren't mine. The ones that I owned long after that did it, they were A/D/S L1530. | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing I find it interesting how many people believe any speakers, or any component, costing over X dollars (X being what they spent) is a "waste of money". Good $100,000 speakers do sound 5 times better than good $20,000 speakers. A lot of people just ... | |
| Top 10 vintage cassette decks Nakamichi Dragon was nice, but I'd pick the ZX-9. The Dragon did everything automatically, where the ZX-9 allowed for manually fine tuning the heads, etc.. With (I think) Maxell CR02 tape I made the best sounding cassettes I ever heard. It did a b... | |
| Is There A Device For Home Use That Can Measure How Low The Bass In My Speakers Is? I use an online tone generator. It shows the sine wave frequency being generated and it's pretty easy to hear when it rolls off. | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? I don't know what my A/D/S L1530 speakers weighed, but at almost 5' they were the tallest (and possibly the heaviest). Heaviest I can remember are my Paradigm Studio 60s. 4' tall and weigh 70 lbs. each. Ok, a quick Google search puts the L1530s a... | |
| Why should audiophile deniers be allowed on an audiophile forum? "You can drive a Mustang. You can drive a Porsche. You can’t drive a dubious power cable." And you can't plug a Porsche into a wall socket to deliver power to an amplifier. Idiotic, childish, simplistic, and ill informed dreck like that is ... | |
| Cassette decks. How good can it get? Nakamichi ZX9. Metal tape and the heads adjusted correctly after a degaussing. | |
| Are you a special snowflake? I came back after several years away (had to reregister) and it's worse now than it was. Too many people who never got smacked as a kid for running their mouths and it seems most threads have some representative of the political dregs who think ev... | |
| Sonic effects of 20+ year old crossover capacitors? I'm recapping a speaker protection circuit on an amplifier right now. They do go bad, heat kills them faster, and very good capacitors (in DIY quantities) are cheap upgrades. Throw in some nice Mills resistors and you're golden. If you don't notic... | |
| 10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts I parted ways on the opening shot. Most people's hearing cuts off around 20,000 kHz, and that doesn't mean higher frequencies don't color those below them. I have heard a super tweeter change the character of the overall sound regardless of whethe... | |
| Badly recorded albums needing upgrading Albums that were digitally mastered or digitally "remastered" are a waste of money on vinyl. Get a decent Redbook or SACD copy and player and be done with it. | |
| A philosophical question. Never thought about it. I listen to music for me, not anyone else or their sensibilities. It's something I do because I wish to, so I listen to what I want when the whim strikes. Never thought about it further than that. Dear God, what a great way... |