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| No God No! Say it Ain’t So! It’s an investor driven society and has been for a good while. Its all about the $$$. Bose sees an opportunity to make $$$ Pretty simple. Most great products start off with a single or small group of visionaries. They use their ability to make a ... | |
| Hagerman Trumpet MC review Thanks for the review. I too have a JLTi mk 4 which I bought new many years back. There was a big shootout of several phono preamps with The JLTi at least tied as best. most of the others cost a lot more. But I get the urge to look elsewhere. I th... | |
| Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing? Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drink Til I See Double (& Take One of You Home) Jon Pardi - Tied One On David Allen Coe - The Perfect Country & Western Song | |
| 1 song you never get sick of? Iron Man - Black Sabbath | |
| Amp Stands - Wood or Stone I've done a good bit of footer experiments. my findings are that very hard surface, IE glass, stone, marble, etc tend to emphasize the high frequencies. So I would stay away from those unless you need more high frequencies. But it can also sound b... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear @pooch2 +1 Harmon Kardan 730, my receiver for 40 years. Never had the bug to upgrade until it died. Same here except mine didn't last as long, probably because I played it every day for hours. Mine still works but a channel cuts out and ther... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear I had or heard the vintage before it was vintage. Some sounded good. Some was ehh, well. Some wasnt that good. I never heard Pioneer setup I could stand for more than 5-10 minutes. Denon was clean but all midrange. I had/still have a Harmon Kard... | |
| When I listen to my system....... @8th-note Good analogy and one I often use. @ozzy62 + 1 more. @ OP There is much information on our recordings, and generally, many of these recordings are just so so with the fidelity. I've often heard about the bad recordings. and how t... | |
| Do you Know a Trusted Seller of Chinese Vacuum Tubes? I had a Shuguang KT-88T Nature series blow and take out a power supply. The tube had just gotten broken in. Sure, I suppose it can happen with any tube. But the Nature series was a top tier tube. I've had tubes blow before but never take out a pow... | |
| Aliexpress Marketplace practices, be for warned. It's all for the cause Comrade SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Jack Ma, the head of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and China's best-known capitalist, is a Communist Party member, the official Party newspaper said on Monday, debunking a public a... | |
| Hearing aid question I got hearing aids about 1 yr ago. Since I'm retired, my health Insurance has a deal with Tru-Hearing. The audiologist works in an ENT dr's office, and the hearing aids offered are made by Signia. My hearing loss is in the same range as yours OP. ... | |
| Great song by the Clash Indeed, there is some very good music out there. Some is from duos who are not well known like this one | |
| RIP Doug Ingle Metamorphosis is their best album. Highly recommended | |
| Listening Room The room simply cannot accommodate a chair in the center or, most likely, your wife and/or significant other will not allow you to place a chair where it's supposed to be when listening WHAT??? "wife and/or significant other will not allow you"... | |
| ADD or Audiophile? I've noticed this when I listen to digital. I blame it on convenience. It makes us less involved because we don't have to be involved. I've never noticed this with my vinyl system.Then too, my vinyl system cost about 5x the digital so it should s... |