carlso63
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| Review: Mad Scientist White Magic Interconnects @foggyus91 : NOT trolling, sorry to burst your bubble. Didn’t realize that stating an actual experience of mine - one that actually (somewhat) supports your position - is considered trolling just because it doesn’t blindly 100% support your asse... | |
| Review: Mad Scientist White Magic Interconnects I run a vintage MacIntosh - powered system that, quite frankly, is not "audiophile" enough that I would ever consider cables like these... however, I am open-minded enough to entertain the POSSIBILITY that, on sensitive enough (read that as "very ... | |
| Ultimate Cheese- Beatles TV variety show cover? That was actually not too bad. Interesting (very early 1970s -ish) interpretation. Original air date says April 29,1970 - so a couple of weeks after Paul's announcement of the band split up. | |
| "I Trust My Ears" I would not consider myself a 'true' audiophile because I have always had the philosophy that my goal is to create a sonic experience that I find the most pleasing - and not necessarily to try and replicate exactly what "...the artist intended / t... | |
| Speakers "Too Big" for room I think the speaker design and (to an extent) amplifier design would play a bigger role than the physical size of the speaker itself. At least from a sonic perspective. Aesthetically, huge speakers in a smaller room might look out of place but the... | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? I've done probably 50 sale transactions out of my home. Never had a bad experience. Probably the worst thing that ever happened was a guy who stayed 45 minutes, talked up a storm, then told me he wasn't going to buy... he was definitely an audio p... | |
| Old SS amps I am running a pair of MacIntosh MC2100 SS Amplifiers that were built in the early to mid 1970s... one has been fully recapped; the other is (I believe) all original. They are fed by a PAS3 Tube Preamplifier that was built in 1968 I believe. The P... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Not sure if "competitive" is the correct term here. I think a better question would be "how do you brag about your system and, if so, to who and how often..?" Hard to be 'competitive' when the vast majority of hobbyist 'alumni' interactions are ... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I'm pretty much there at endgame with my 'vintage' system: Radio Tuner: 1977 Marantz Model 2100 AM / FM Stereo Tuner Preamplifier: 1968 Dynaco Model PAS-3X Tube Preamp Amplifier: (2) 1975 MacIntosh Model MC2100 (210 wpc running as monoblocks... | |
| A controversial takes on low cost speakers with a lesson... I am here laughing at this topic for 3 reasons: 1) What the video guy said has both a lot of what I'll call general truth; and also a bit of what I'll call specific truth... The general truth is basically just a take on the law of diminishing ret... | |
| Brian Wilson Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Different musical genres (obviously) but a lot in common: Their songwriting and musical styles created new paths in music that basically did not exist beforehand; their (Top 40) popularity was only a few years each - ... | |
| Another great gone Have "Riot Going On" and "Greatest Hits" on RtR... Sly was massively talented and the band had a truly unique sound... Coke did him in, if my memory is correct. He got hooked so bad that it cost him his band, his record contract and he basically f... | |
| Don't Neglect to check your Caps! An especially good idea if you have any 'vintage' equipment (like I do)... I have seen almost "night and day" differences in speaker performance after a recap. Recapping a speaker crossover is very easy to do (in most cases); all you need is some... | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? @rvpiano When you say 70dB where are you taking that measurement? At the (speaker) source, X feet away from the source? At your listening position, if so are you seated or standing and how far above / below your ears are the speaker drivers? ... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I refer to this point in time not as 'the end point' or 'endgame' but as 'hobbyist maturity', as this can happen with other hobbies as well... Basically, it's the realization of 3 key facts all coming together at the same time: 1) There will ALW... |