boxcarman
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| Mystery with woofers. Help! Remember that jumpers are part of the speaker cable line and get good ones. I replaced standard stamped metal jumpers with cyro treated strand jumpers and it made a big difference. | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" Yes, wrong forum for this subject, but to hear this music on an excellent pipe organ and choir is very moving indeed. | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles I agree with all that is said here. More expensive cables are better only if YOU like them better. In my experience, they can clean up the higher end of the signal, but again, some will like it and others won't. | |
| 2025 Audio System Wish List Time! @pkatsuleas. I know what you mean. At axpona, I hope to look at Fyne loudspeakers, but realize I will need a new amp as well. Fun to dream, isn't it? | |
| Merry Christmas One and All Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks to all for all the good info on equipment and music. | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? If you have an internet radio tuner there are hundreds of jazz stations to sample various types of music. A lot of us like different forms [not hard to tell that]. Lee Ritenour is an excellent guitarist a is Peter Frampton [yes indeed] "Fingerp... | |
| MusicDirect,, I love those catalogs. Have bought a few things out of there as well, equipment and LP's. Always happy with those guys. | |
| Shrink Totem 1's? Here is a solution.....Hollow out 4" of the wall to make room for the speaker. Tim Allen will come to help. | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! I could never buy an exposed horn speaker like the one lubachi has shown, or Avantegarde no matter how they sound. For a positive comment, those Vitus amplication products from Denmark have me drooling for an upgrade. Just gorgeous. | |
| The rat’s nest of cabling. Large transformers in components. My discovery. All of us with tinnitus don't have to worry about EMI or other noise in our gear. | |
| Help me identify an amp Man, this should be in the HI-FI hall of fame. I would love to hear what it can do after you get it in working order. | |
| Enough is Enough I was a retail owner for many years, now retired. We offered personal service and hired [and fired] many salespeople over the years. Some of them, you could tell would thrive at this and others were pretty obvious that this was not their calling... | |
| Music Hall Classic Turntable Four stars for what Elliot said. | |
| Acoustic Panel Help Doing this will be a trial and error experiment. I have used Maggies for about 30 years and have been through more changes than I wanted. These dipoles are tricky as for room treatment, just a small change in treatment will produce great effect. ... | |
| another one passes. Another one that recently passed is Vic Flick, who was the guitarist for Ian Fleming's James Bond theme. I will never forget Dr. No, first saw it as a teen who rode my bike 5 miles to the nearest theater for a Saturday matinee. |