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| Difference between Harbeth SHL5 and SHL5 35th Anniversary model There isn't one, not in sonic terms. The Anniversary models are there to get the suffering audiophiles (with their constant demands for "better" cabling and "better" connectors) off Alan Shaw's back, at least for a while. Mr Shaw's views on the ma... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Yes another vote for both Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Then there's the Last Picture Show (awesome beyond words) and the classic rock and roll drive-in movie, American Grafitti.Not really my favourite kind of music featured but it works perfec... | |
| Your favourite music movie? West Side Story - is this the best ever score? Probably.Oliver! - Lionel Bart, what more do you want?My Fair Lady - timeless songsOnce Upon a Time in the West - epic scoreHarold and Maude - Cat Stevens circa 1970 | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Most useless tweaks? Or is this now an endless hijacking by the most useless tweak salesmen posing as posters?Anyway, what about moving coil cartridges? When you consider how good moving magnets are nowadays, plus their technical superiority... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? @yeti42 , sorry to hear about your experiences. I guess far too many of us were taken for a ride at some point in this hobby. Our needs were great but our knowledge was narrow.Talking of the Townshend Rock, surely the proprietary trough wasn’t a u... | |
| Blind fold hearing test @jssmith, "I've been in blind amp tests and I can emphatically say "No", I can't tell the difference in amps. I seriously doubt if anyone could tell speaker brands unless they've been repeatedly exposed to those speakers, have material they're fam... | |
| The Day the Music Burned Looks like this one is going to run as more and more affected artists like Sheryl Crow begin to realise. This could run for years and years..."A group of high-profile pop musicians are currently suing Universal Music for $100m (£78m) over the loss... | |
| Blind fold hearing test Perhaps we audiophiles are not seeing the wood for the trees. Perhaps most of the so-called huge, night and day differences in performance we often read about are in fact barely perceptible? I recall being struck by the sheer honesty when I heard ... | |
| Blind fold hearing test @8th-note, now that is surprising. I guess that until the differences become as large as those between Pepsi (smoother) and Coke (harsher/ more bite) we're just deceiving ourselves, or shooting in the dark in you prefer a pun. | |
| Spade vs bare wire @ieales, "Tremendous improvements in sound quality can be effected by removing ALL crimps / headers / connectors from the audio path and soldering the connections"Tremendous? Perhaps, but only if after 25 years or so they had become terribly pitte... | |
| Blind fold hearing test I can imagine the perfect credibility destroying nightmare scenario. You come into the room sit down settle in and have a good listen and then proclaim the system to be running large speakers off giant monoblocks. It must be so because the bandwid... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Turntable mats? Yes, they can make a difference but are they ever an actual improvement?If so, then surely something went seriously wrong in the design process if a detail so basic was overlooked. | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste Until you get to hear any product it’s best to treat all reviews as mere infomercials. The number of times I was left feeling underwhelmed upon hearing an hitherto highly recommended product...Basically, after buying a basic amp, CD player and som... | |
| Spade vs bare wire Bare OFC cable is the simplest and easily the most convenient. Issues with oxidation, if they exist at all, can be dealt with a periodic clean once or twice a year. Besides, concerns with any oxidation of speaker cable pale into insignificance com... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? So difficult to stick to the title of the thread isn’t it? The gravitational pull of FREE ADVERTISING still blights the audiogon forum. No thread is immune, not even this one. Let me remind you, we’re discussing ridiculous, useless, and overpriced... |