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How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers?
When Danny specifies "No Rez" for Klipsch speakers bad things happen.  
Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?
Stroll into any crowd, and you will find people you can't listen to.  
I replaced the volume pot on my tube preamplifier.
With pot size matters  
Critical listening and altered states
Being stuck in a room with disagreeable music for long enough could certainly bring me to cough up certain PIN numbers or whatever else my captors might desire of me. We here have to admit that music is both our strong and weak point and can somet... 
What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you?
My relationship to music listening often reminds me of my relationship to people, but not, however, to my relationship with dogs which seems never to fatigue.  
To Battery Or Not To Battery (12 Volt)
As a woodworker I could dress that up in a vented cherry wood box, but the off-gassing of the batteries inside a home might be a problem. Of course, one could place the whole assembly outside and wire it into the house. Then the problem becomes ve... 
To Battery Or Not To Battery (12 Volt)
I'll raise you a harrumph.  
??? My First Classical Concert,What Can I Expect ???
And if the piece is a real drum crasher you will gain an enhanced appreciation of what drums can do in a hall.  
We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes
So am I misconstruing here that a high end battery backed power supply for the whole hi-fi system should be conducive to a cleaner signal even from the packeted network servers?  
Critical listening and altered states
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSDzI0_I4U The "rub" according to Chris Rock.  
Cable Quest
I inventoried all the clothes hangers in my home and found quite a variety of "gauges" which would have to be taken into account if I could figure out impedances relative to copper or silver wire. My foremost problem, though, is that none of these... 
Cable Quest
Which color are they painted, or what coating are they using?  
What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you?
When the music won't listen and I am not really listening to my wife either she advises me to get my panties out of a wad by suggesting that I "take a hike" - not in the colloquial sense but in the literal meaning of the expression which I do. I h... 
Please Recommend some Charlie Parker Recordings!
A lot of of my jazz friends regard "Charlie Parker With Strings" as sort of a betrayal of Parker's most riffiest riled up playing, but to me the strings tracks let him play more mellifluously and with more room to breath. His deftness and spot on ... 
HOW can components be so expensive, and yet customer service is so bad.
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