berner99
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| The Absurdity of it All @desert38 I”I can’t tell you what you can hear, but I can hear a difference. Isn’t that what really matters? There is no wrong or right.”That is what should matter, but if you look at what happened in the last 12 months (outside audio) and all t... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. | |
| Considering the Parasound A23+ amplifier IF you want a parasound A23+ I'll be putting mine up for sale, PM me. | |
| Cat Scratch Fever? Journey to the Center of the Mind—a classic. | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget Interesting, thanks. | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget @steve59 “current ‘market spin’ would have us all buy wide dispersion speakers”Some of us prefer the sound of “non-box” speakers eg omnis (eg ohm), dipoles (eg Maggie’s), or open baffle which are not the same (I thought) as box speakers. I recen... | |
| Why not more popular? Non-box speakers often have qualities that I didn’t think one could find in box speakers eg a certain openness, etc. Non-box speakers:—open baffle dynamics (earliest Dahlquest DQ 10), spatial audio, pure audio project, tri-art etc.—electrostatics ... | |
| Rogers LS/35A Classic Mini Monitors Reviewed ! WOW They were great ?40 years ago (I had chartwell LS3/5As) but I'd at least check out LSA's book shelf speakers before buying one today. | |
| Brainstorm Thursday. Are we approaching the Audiophile Singularity? "are we heading toward a time when everything will sound great but kind of the same?"Maggies and e.g. JBL speakers are both popular so little danger of that. | |
| Classical Top Five Bach, replace Mozart with Haydn, Beethoven, replace Brahms with Schubert. 5th? Rachmaninoff. | |
| Audiophile Fuses: Helpful or "Snake Oil"? Listen to people who post from experience.Theories can be wrong (see last 12 months). | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? +1 I’d like them to describe their preferred sound types - we all have a preference - up front. Then I’d like them to say how the speaker under test satisfies their preferences. | |
| Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's... Let us know what you get and how you like them. | |
| Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's... Nice Amp. Had the speakers decades ago. They are open baffle speakers and have a wonderful openness that most box speakers don’t. Options that do:--Another open baffle: 1.Spatial audios start at $3500 2. Tri-Art B Series 4 Doug Schroeder wrote a g... | |
| Own Magnepans? Got Cats? I was once at a party of a host who was fostering kittens. I vividly remember a kitten leaping from the floor, digging her claws into one of those folding room dividers about 4’ off the floor, and the divider fall over (kitten of course was fine... |