cd318
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| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? @glow_worm, “Footnote: I almost stopped reading the post when I saw the poster “has been involved in the hobby for over 40 years.” It’s kind of a tip off of what’s to follow.”Any possibility you could enlighten us as to what you meant by this? Gue... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? This thread is in danger of being strangely hijacked into a pro advocacy of tweaking via various parties with financial interests in doing so. Strange because there is a concurrent thread advocating tweaks running right now.Useless plausible tweak... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? @mahgister,"...My experiment with stones and crystals were great tweaks with positive results but less evident one by one than with the resonators...My tweaking of mechanical vibrations were also evident but less so than the effect of the resonat... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? @kqvkq9,"While I do have to offer my compliments to the original poster for a fun idea, it was inevitable that the thread would descend into argument. Why? Well, speaking as someone who has been involved in the hobby for over 40 years, I've watche... | |
| The Day the Music Burned Unfortunately because that thread title mentioned Elton John and Nirvana it was all too easy to overlook. The full extent of the loss is incalculable."Among the incinerated Decca masters were recordings by titanic figures in American music: Louis ... | |
| The Day the Music Burned OMG! This is appalling news.The way archives are often treated borders on criminal neglect (as any Doctor Who fan will readily tell you)This is a big argument for safely digitizing and double/triple backing up everything to the best of our abilities. | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? @flapjack," 'You ever try and ask your power company to correct the direction of the wires connecting your house to the local transformer?'Yes, the restraining order is still in effect I believe...."Thanks for that! A great example of what can hap... | |
| Most useful tweaks that are sensible and really make a noticeable improvement Another vote for speaker placement.Some sound better closer to boundaries some don't - it just depends upon the room and what the designer wanted.For me, it's tweeter aimed at ear level before anything else. Then it's proximity to rear wall, as ve... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? I'd say 99% of all tweaks are useless and hence likely to be both ridiculous and overpriced at the same time.Can we audiophiles really believe that manufacturers and designers operating in an highly competitive cut throat field would deliberately ... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? @kqvkq9, "When I was a kid working in the amusement park I would sometimes work the Carny side of things. You quickly learned who was savvy and who was a mark. Some of the marks knew they were but played along because they were only throwing away ... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Favourite Clash lyric - great reminder there’s always worse places than where you might be now.Straight to Hell If you can play on the fiddleHow’s about a British jig and reel?Speaking King’s English in quotationAs railhead towns feel the steel mi... | |
| Why all or most audiophiles are men? @maguiar102, "I wonder if men use music to tame their male harshness.."Well, looking at some of aggressive chest thumping that seems to be an ever present part of high end audio (also cars, gaming PCs etc) it is pretty safe to conclude you are right. | |
| The Science of Cables The Rime of the Ancient Audiophile (excerpt)'God save thee, ancient audiophile! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look'st thou so?'—With my credit cardI bought the OVERPRICED CABLE. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime... | |
| The Science of Cables I could go on and ask which ones for decades now have been seen as gullible idiots waiting to be parted from their money? Join the dots if you need, scratch your heads if it helps...but love, desire and passion can be dangerous impulses which all ... | |
| The Science of Cables Engineers vs audiophiles?I wonder which ones have studied electronics and have a firm grasp of principles?Which ones have passed difficult examinations requiring an understanding of physics and maths?One side is responsible for building the entire... |