bishopwill
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| Question for users of bare wire ends speaker cable I've read so many conflicting claims from manufacturers and dealers and afiles about the supposed merits of solid v stranded, round v oval, thin v fat, (you-fill-in) that I've become convinced--sorry, Sean, and others--that none of you really know... | |
| Best Find Ever??? Swampwalker, that is EXACTLY what happened. A few months later, while moving, I dropped the Dragon onto a ceramic tile floor. RIP, draco.And a year or so after than, my then-adolescent godson kicked the woofer cone out of one of the KEFs.It's not ... | |
| What are we listening to...for...with? Well, cfb, I'm not at the point of having to give up All Things Considered but I stopped listening to car radio music a while back. Awdeeofyle frames the real question, of course: what is our motivation? What motivates a person to have, as I and m... | |
| What are we listening to...for...with? Thanks, Brulee, but no need to apologize, you haven't offended me at all. This is a great community, mixing equal parts of good humor, bad humor, genuine expertise, and very high quality bullshit. I'm delighted to be a part of it. Doesn't take too... | |
| Stradivari Drum Funny What's the definition of a perfect gentleman?Someone who can play the saxophone. And doesn't. | |
| What are we listening to...for...with? An excellent observation, Sugarbrie. Between the recordings that I don't listen to because my revealing system makes the engineering sound so bad and the ones I don't listen to because the playing/conducting is so bad, my list of favorites is gett... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Corks, pbb. Corks. A simple cork upgrade can open whole new dimensions in your tastebudstage. I recently replaced the corks in a case of Chateau Montelana cabernet with Lafitte Rothchild corks w/Van Alstine mods ($350 for 12). Wow! It was as thoug... | |
| Best Find Ever??? Got a Nakamichi Dragon some years back, NIB, for five bucks at a yard sale. Also a pair of mint KEF 103s for $25 at the same sale.Will | |
| If there was Nobel prize in audio... I'd recognize John Marovskis, designer of the Janis subwoofer, for bringing audiophile quality (by the standards of the day) to low frequency music. | |
| Hall of Shame Maxgain, my friend, have a nice, tall iced latte and relax a bit. This is a hobby, not a quest for revealed divine truth. Esmeralda is just as entitled to strong opinions as you are and ought not become the target of your wrath for expressing them... | |
| Ear Candy: Most startling recordings. Thanks for the info. I think (but am by no means sure) that it is the gigue fugue in which you can hear the image move during the recording. I wish to heck I could remember where I got the scuttlebutt on that recording. I know it had something to ... | |
| Hall of Shame But Brulee, that was my point exactly. Listen to what pleases YOU, using the equipment that pleases YOU, selected by the methods that satisfy YOU.My first paragraph was occasioned by the many, many convos I've had over the years with ardent audiop... | |
| Who R U? I can tell I'm in the right place. Actually, Albert, if you read either of my posts carefully, you could not possibly miss my appeal for tolerance and mutual acceptance. Willaka the Slithy Tove | |
| Ear Candy: Most startling recordings. I no longer have the vinyl nor can I remember the label but it was a direct-to-disc recording by Virgil Fox. On one of the tracks you can actually hear the engineer move one of the microphones while Fox is playing. There are also a couple of polic... | |
| Out of Control Something tells me that if I were smart I'd stay out of this.... Nonetheless, a few very brief observations.1. It is naive to think that people who have spent thousands of dollars on cables, for example, are going to be convinced to try DBX testin... |