bubba_buoy
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| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. I get it. I don't find it or him that funny and certainly not smart nor clever. I think Ron is attempting to tap into the "everyman" vibe that exists online that mocks the the things that they can't afford as some sort of "al Bundy vs. the snobs"... | |
| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp Mazda/Radiotechnique from France are really good. Great detail without being bright, and a very nice amount of tubey-ness and dimensionality. Bugle Boys too. Otherwise I think the current version of the Gold Lions is really good. I think they ar... | |
| NODE as just a streamer / Airplay device Yes. Go for it. I have had the Node 2i for a few years and over that span have graduated through 3 outboard DACs with increasingly great results. The Node as just a streamer, is a great option with easy and stable software. Mine's been extremely r... | |
| MoFi controversy One-Steps suddenly seem drastically overpriced. I don't own any of them. Though if they were fully analog I would have no problem with their charging that amount. My small collection, 10-ish, MoFi albums are absolutely fabulous values to me. Trans... | |
| MoFi controversy How one feels about vinyl vs digital, about prices for 1-Steps, or about the sound quality of MoFi products isn’t the point, compared to the issue of the little banner across the top of MoFi albums....there are 2 and they used to have a meaning...... | |
| Speaker polyamory -- or, stories about getting a second set to alternate with your primary Great topic. Currently own a pair of Magnepans and Klipsch heritage horn speakers. For me, there's no point to having multiple "lovers" if they're a lot alike. 😉👍🎸🤘✌️ | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Score vs Soundtrack? Score: Star Wars Soundtrack: Dazed & Confused | |
| How Audiphiles are Different My "ear" is an amalgam of having played music in concert bands, singing in choirs (school and church) and listening to all kinds of live and recorded music thanks to my parents. I can freely admit that some systems I’ve heard lately could be said ... | |
| Which DAC is better ? Try both, but I had an eye-opening experience with a Marantz outboard/stand alone DAC and headphone amp (with a Node 2i) and I strongly preferred the Marantz sound. Better highs and separation/spatial cues. If the "voicing" is similar, there’s ce... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? My dad, a true Baby Boomer, always said "If there are multiple great covers of a song, it proves it's a great song." My take.... Hendrix version of "All Along The Watchtower." Jeff Beck Group "Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You" (also a Dyla... | |
| Energy speakers Energy had speakers in Best Buy, but they also made higher end speakers as well. You’ll find great used options out there if you find the Veritas line, their highest... or Reference Connoisseur (RC) series, their mid-level which was a super high q... | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding Jazz after about ’64. Rush, Steely Dan, Radiohead, rap after 2002, I don’t get anything from them. They just don’t do it for me, but I don’t denigrate anything except christian rock (and I’m a preacher’s kid, so take it with a boulder of salt)...i... | |
| The Music at AXPONA 2022 If you were at an audio show and you didn’t hear Diana Krall, were you really at an audio show? | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? Pop/Rock/Folk together. Alphabetical by artist. Jazz/Blues/Hip Hop together. Alphabetical by artist. Soundtracks together by movie title. Mobile Fidelity titles together. Vinyl Me Please titles together. Box sets. | |
| What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile? The heavyweight slugfest between music lovers and audiophiles! lol You might be an audiophile if... ...you know "Keith Don't Go" but you don't know who Keith is. There's a spectrum most of us are on, in differing ratios...from pure music lover... |