asvjerry

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How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing!
@paulgardner ....Leave well enough alone....until something gets under your skin about it.Stop reading everyone else's neurosis' about 'this' and 'that'....or what they feel is an obvious shortfall of a system in a space they've never been to, nor... 
BEST SPEAKERS AT A REASONABLE PRICE
...I'm a big fan of the KIS principal.  I only add the 2nd S if I think it's deserved.... ;)Speakers are and will always be the Biggest Modifier of your experience.Going 'integrated' at the same time inserts another variable into your equation...w... 
BEST SPEAKERS AT A REASONABLE PRICE
@tblanka ...Keep the Onk for awhile (I looked up the specs...it's far from 'ghastly', y'all. *S* Stop pushing the bias....), and buy the speakers you Want and Like the sound of....(Currently that model is $200~350 on eBay....just for reference sak... 
Advantages of owning equipment from major audio brands vs. boutique shops?
*S*...and I, for one, will thank y'all for the 'product R&D' that your $ support in the name of 'better audio reproduction'.'Boutique' equipment....*pause*....I'll put it on a par with F1 motorcycles and cars....What was once 'unobtainium', is... 
i'm looking for something that may not exist
*L*  ...and how paranoid can you be?So sorry....That's not enough. ;) 
i'm looking for something that may not exist
Happy New Year & Decade, y'all....*G*^5's*....(Since absolutely nobody seems to be taking this thread seriously...)I hear there's a new player that plugs into your cortex via a plug installed at the base of your skull.  The IAR (Implied Audio ... 
What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why?
...I can crack sheetrock more efficiently these days...*L* 
What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why?
@jaytor   *L*  + on the 1B's...I had a pair of those....became an amt driver fan to the point of buying a pair of Just the drivers.   Didn't bother with what was underneath them.... ;)  An amazing device...'Most fun'?  Mmm...dialing the Wayback ma... 
Speakers or room
@kenjit   C'mon, one doesn't need to go 'stone cold' on the OP...he Knows he's got 'issues'...:(Better...Rugs, drapes, plants, anything to damp the echos down......and keep the spouse in a 'happy place'. *S*  She might welcome an opportunity to de... 
Me vs. JL Audio - An open discussion.
@spinaker01  There's perhaps 1~2% of 'what there is to know about me'.Google might fill in another percent or 3.The rest involves Time, and certain amount of patience...Cut me some 'slack'....and you'll get 50% more from me.My 'standard issue' for... 
Me vs. JL Audio - An open discussion.
Erik, I suspect that you & I aren't on 'opposite sides of the country' as much as one may assume...;)As for the 'start point'...one begins with The 1st Assumption.  Set up, check, run the experiment... ("Well, that sounds like...*expletive*" *... 
Me vs. JL Audio - An open discussion.
...and you've stumbled into the 'alternate definition' of 'assume'....Simplistic; try again. 
Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...
*L*  ...and back 'atcha...I've always wondered if babe Jez did the common trick that all infants do to the new parents...While changing the diaper (or whatever was appropo Then), the boy child takes a leak into the parent's face.It's happened to E... 
Me vs. JL Audio - An open discussion.
Room correction will only take you so far...(MHO...)Ears and 'taste' (levels, xover, all that...) is the final %.Having to 'make do' with 'non-pedigree' equipment for decades....but applying what now amounts to decades of 'tuning for the room' wit... 
Whats playing on your system today?
Talk to Ya Later > The Tubes > The Completion Backward Principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEaSlbTixI "...just save it for another guy!" ;)