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Tune of the Day
Hans Theesink, "Mercury Blues" from Songs of the Southland It's shocking how lifeless and staid most music on Youtube sounds even with headphones  
The Snob Appeal Premium
Some of the biggest snobs I know are very good at getting good stuff for a steal. More power to them, but they can be every bit as insufferable as a high end snob.  
Magico's M9
Sorry about your dog, dude. LOL  
The Best Tweak?
What we are doing is supposed to be fun and a bit reckless - just ask the musicians.  
The Best Tweak?
  The Cannabis Beat   By the way, I do not bring Schumann Generators anywhere near my equipment or any form of ionization near my equipment. The orgonite pucks atop some equipment is for damping mostly - those are the heaviest pucks I ma... 
The Best Tweak?
No comprendo: "---Minerals for filtering and protecting from EMI and RFI... ---Ionization... ---Schumann generators... This is unorthodox..."  
The Best Tweak?
Was referring more specifically to audiophile equipment doings being as how our equipment includes our brain and its perceptions however modified.  
Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
Why Valve Amps?  
Magico's M9
If you can never fulfill your lust for an M9, you can always use the other one to end your sorrows. They bear a resemblance! M9  
Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
I first came to tubes because I could not stand those Sabre chips.  
The Snob Appeal Premium
You're bragging about what you don't have. It's pretty much the same thing.  
AI and the future of music
Audiophiles should be wearing copper foil hats or at least tinned copper. Anything else would be disrespectful to our avocation.  
Your "Many Worlds" Audio System?
Are the advocates for the primacy of audio measurements for things like cables and wires actually measuring runs of music streaking through the conductors, or are they measuring simple signals? I have seen graphs on this site purporting to show m... 
AI and the future of music
Indeed mimicry is part and parcel of the creative process if it is used to absorb and then to recreate, so AI just by recyling mimicry can bring novelty to the art forms. What I wonder is: can AI entities ever actually be inspired? What most both... 
AI and the future of music
@Itmandella That list of potential harms describes the harms already perpetrated on us via the invention of fast computing and the internet.