berner99
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| Fascinated By GR Research Channel I didnt watch his videos like he was the great speaker saviour, or that I have to buy his kits. Just that he was pointing out typical problems with cheap parts even in expensive speakers. What these parts look like, and how to get something bette... | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer Frequency response is only part of the picture: pattern of sound radiation e.g. bipoles/dipoles/omnis plus wide dispersion vs (? more typical) narrow dispersion, etc. | |
| School Of Rock Students I like Salisbury (sp?) Hill and California Dreamin best. They just released another one Highway Star by Deep purple today. You'll have to search YouTube as it Won't let me post the link. | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? "What is unlikely is that you have any idea what my mind will let me see." You wrote lines and lines and lines of intellectual stuff when my whole point is that your mind filters everything. | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? "I do not subscribe to the idea that mind is separate from body, that there is a "mental interface" between me and the world. That’s called "representational realism" in philosophy" Your words here (and Allah forfend philosophy) have zero to do w... | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? ""We never really confront audio immediately, in all its freshness as a thing" We also never really see a tree, a person, a sandwich etc. It is the nature of being a person with a mind: our minds filter everything we see, hear, experience, etc.... | |
| Genre: Sacred or Early World Music, what's your go to? Einaudii is great. Perhaps he falls under the heading of minimalism and my favorite in that grouping is Arvo Part e.g. Alina is very bare and soothing. There is also a CD called Ancient and Modern by Anne Dudley with the best track here: ... | |
| Audio Friends Don't Let Audio Friends ... One person's bright enough to make me run screaming from the room is another's nice detail so ask what they think of it and are they happy first. | |
| Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs Two hypnotic tracks that may be what you seek are: Pink Floyd: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (agree with Dweller) and (Jazz) John Coltrane: Ole Coltrane | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon Renaissance: Turn of the Cards and Ashes are Burning Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman (some would argue a bunch of his) Cowboy Junkies: The Ca... | |
| WAudio 3900 "Hi-End Audio Grade" Noise Filter There is a video by Sean(zero fidelity guy on YouTube) under this product at Amazon. Bottom line: he’s not a fan of power conditioners but was surprised to find some benefits after listening to this one. | |
| Pet audiophile peeves - name yours “Snake oil” AKA my theory trumps whatever you’ve heard. | |
| How long do you or should you keep your gear. Been through both extremes: in my 20s went through decade long period in which many components came and went then i settled on mirage m3 speakers and a system which lasted about 30 years. This go around I've pretty quickly settled on electronics ... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears Continuing tony1954's theme of music to wallow in: Cowboy Junkies: Cause Cheap is How I feel Janis Ian e.g. Between the Lines Jewel: Foolish Games Warren Zevon: Knockin on Heaven's Door (Zevon was dying of cancer) Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Rai... | |
| Spatial X5 speakers Question: If the Spatial M3s work fine with tubes (and they must because they are sold together) why did Clayton previously create an M3 version called the M3 triode master: "The award winning M3 has been re-engineered [changing from 4ohm] to pre... |