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| First, Fix Your Skull No doubt about it. Size of ears is likely relevant, as well as actual acuity. Just as some people can see better than others (some folks don't wear glasses) some people can hear better than others, "better" in the sense of being able to discern a ... | |
| First, Fix Your Skull I've posted more than once about how different ears hear differently. If your ears stick out from your head, you will hear much different from someone with closer to the head ears. This is why there is disagreement among people about what sounds "... | |
| Watkins Audio Generation Four Bookshelf Speakers ? I tested and matched every resistor and capacitor and wound every coil in every WE-1 speaker to ensure a matched pair. But I don’t believe that 230 were built; if I recall it was considerably less than that. But it was a long time ago. | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung I say you're going the opposite way you should be going. None of these new production tubes can match tubes from the 50's and 60's. You'll never live long enough to find out, but your new Russian or Chinese tubes will not be around 50-60 years aft... | |
| Mattresses, not stereos is where the money is I like to go to at least one mattress store each week and rip those tags off that they put on mattresses that say "do not remove under penalty of law." These tags would not even exist except to try and alleviate the vast subliminal guilt those pla... | |
| Mattresses, not stereos is where the money is I always sleep standing up and often wear a tuxedo while doing so. | |
| The sonic rightness of a mono system. Well, I know that I am not using any product you designed; even by accident. | |
| What is wrong here.. on Audiogon? Ah, you've been inflicted with the "expertise" of the self proclaimed experts. Many of them say they have 30 years experience in audio but it's more like one year of experience thirty times. I have never heard any of Nelson's recent amplifiers; al... | |
| Do people know what they are missing? It is likely that the general public has never heard any sound system better than the one in their car. Additionally, not many people other that us, actually sit and listen to music these days. Back in the 30's and 40's when radio was pretty much ... | |
| Matching Gear matter to you? My integrated tube amplifier, tube CD player, and tube phono stage are all from the same manufacturer. I've never had any regrets about any of it, but I did do some rather diligent research before I got any of it. One of the things that stood out ... | |
| most realistic sound from a stand mount Loudspeaker active or passive I stopped watching when she said that the guitar "sounds like a guitar."But I did start wondering if Pete Townshend could break it. | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! 96 TearsQuestion Mark and the MysteriansOh, larryi, I remember "Sock it to Me, Baby" from Mitch Ryder; just slipped my mind. Good one | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! "Devil With the Blue Dress On"Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels | |
| Old school analog system My first "good" stereo system was a NAD 3020 integrated amplifier, Dual 522 turntable with a Stanton 681EEE cartridge, a Teac cassette deck I bought in Japan, and Infinity Qe speakers. Only listen to the radio in the car.Edit; the old Dual tables ... | |
| most realistic sound from a stand mount Loudspeaker active or passive MDF is also rigid and strong. A lot of speaker manufacturers bleat about "natural wood cabinets" but they never mention that wood rings like a bell. The ideal cabinet would be something like a cinder block or even a rock, but adequate damping in t... |