asvjerry
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| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? Currently, my/our audio 'collection' is in the largest space in our collective past of 40+ yrs. But it has its' own faults, drawbacks, etc. A 'dedicated space'? SURE....That, and a Lotto 'big win' would do just Fine, thanx... ...and I'd have t... | |
| Not sure what to think @hilde45 ...and your POV is basically parallel to mine, scary as that may seem..... ;) One can only adapt or augment your 'average' living space with the various forms of treatments available to the point of: 1) SAF fading and replace with clenc... | |
| audible distortion and tube gear? Distortion is a personable sort of thing, likely reserved for 'umans. One could say all music and it's varied instruments just create "liked through loved" distortions not natural in nature. That, combined with a distort we call 'a beat' that li... | |
| Not sure what to think @hilde45 ...It still escapes me that room acoustics v. speaker type and its’ accoutrema gets bypassed by the ’well, maybe something else "upstream" will cure whatever seems....wrong....’ I know this after many spaces occupied got overtaken by ’aud... | |
| seeking advice on iso pucks /stands or similair that won't stain speakers? @goose + @yowser + @grislybutter ...Wax paper still has wax, which may still interfere with oil finishes without a sealer...plastic sheeting may work, but it and foam are still petrol based, so 🤷♂️ one rolls their own dice on this... I’ve be... | |
| A Better Way to Buy Gear - Help Needed @wturkey , great suggestion but my antenna agrees with the majority. A serious seller ought to know and keep on the well-beaten path of on-line major $ items on sale. If the r/t drive could be combined with something 'vacational' it potentially ... | |
| New In 2024 @limomangus ....yeah, lots of that....some newers' in there, and I can burn time elsewhere stumbling into it.....;) *G* More fun, too... | |
| Sometimes you just get lucky ....once a Brit, always a Brit..... ....'stiff upper lip'.... ...nightmare time...?... | |
| audible distortion and tube gear? *low-lvl lurk* | |
| SHALL WE PLAY A GAME ? Oh....Happy Saturns' Day.... | |
| SHALL WE PLAY A GAME ? @waytoomuchstuff ....and doesn't have to be totally intelligible either... 👍 The line after "....tell you Mona, what I wanna do..." has given rise to more obscene (some physically unlikely, but...) variants in those altered states than one can sh... | |
| SHALL WE PLAY A GAME ? @immatthewj ....hmmm...2 ways to look @ that question.... ;) ...there's the audioholics' approach..... and then, by the same f'n artist... ....the latter being the atheist version, a complex neuron argument that the 'srooms turned loose in your... | |
| 12 wire compared to Nordost Blue Heaven Speaker Cable? @tomic601 ....*G* You and I both....It'd be fun while it lasted, anyway....😏 Fuses, smoozes....Why hasn't someone wished up an audio-grade circuit breaker? 'Ell, it ought to be about the same $s as a TubeZilla after all the exotic bits are leas... | |
| Changing from European to American power supply on clearaudio emotion TT Sell it back to the EU? Otherwise, a potential bug chase....$s' unknown.... Another case of Buyer Beware/Look Hard Before Leap, always learned the hard way....so it seems....sorry that's your fate, @oldshanelistens | |
| Help me understand the current amp market Current SOTA, sorta.... Expensive and confusing, equipment match concerns, differences in 'what's in the box?' or not..... Happy to be 'sorta sota' (lower case is appropo....) and happy to listen v. 'getting all clinical 'bout it'.... I don't l... |