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| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones As professor Choueri explains in the generally fascinating Audioholics video below (around the 22 minutes mark). "A $100 pair of well designed headphones has a far better impulse response than a $100,000 pair of speakers, it’s just a fact." I... | |
| Turntables I've not heard the 10, only the 8. It was easily amongst the best turntables I have heard. By that I mean to say that if someone had told me that I was listening to a reel to reel tape deck I would not have been surprised. Virtually no surface ... | |
| Articles You Feel Should be Shared Siegfried Linkwitz at Burning Amp 2017 A great lecture but somewhat painful viewing for those of us with box speakers (at 40 mins 48 secs). | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @nyev Wow, that was lucky. I've learnt the hard way that you should always get someone to help when working with heavy cumbersome equipment. It's a pain to have to wait but the alternatives are not worth thinking about In my experience deco... | |
| The Audio Critic @busboy I have every copy of Audio Critic. Wow, that’s impressive! A complete set must be quite rare these days I can’t think of any other magazine that I’d want to keep as a reference. The few that I do still have are there mainly for nos... | |
| Beatles Get Back documentary @larsman Yes, Phil Spector was later drafted in to try to assemble an album out of the wreckage. Probably by Lennon or Harrison. Definitely not by McCartney. I’m a fan of Phil’s work on Let It Be but I wish he’d included Don’t Let Me Down in ... | |
| Beatles Get Back documentary @larsman George Martin is present throughout in a kind of overlooking role as Glynn Johns sets about trying to produce the album. I've not heard the Glynn Johns mix of Let It Be but apparently the Beatles didn't like it and lost interest in the... | |
| Beatles Get Back documentary It's simply amazing what Jackson has done with the picture quality. Looking at Let It Be and then at Get Back and it's hard to understand the difference in image. One looks dark and grimy and the other looks bright and clear, uncannily clear, (s... | |
| Why don't we tire of music? Good question. I remember reading that James Joyce once sought acknowledgent amongst close friends that his famous novel Ulysses was as good as a work of music. He didn't get it. What about that Nietzsche quote? "Without music, life woul... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @atmasphere Well... The LP has continued to advance as well. QRP (Acoustic Sounds) sorted out that vibration was the primary cause of surface noise in LPs and so installed damping to reduce it- and makes vastly quieter LPs as a result, rivaling ... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? @cptrips JBL L100 It was summer 1970, best friends older brother invited us to listen to his new stereo. Big Marantz receiver, Dual 701 turntable, and the L100s. Changed my life. I have been chasing the sound ever since. For some reason ... | |
| Does a turntable make a DRAMATIC difference? @mglik "In fact, the RP8 will get you 90%+ of the 10. And either can be compared to tables costing much, much more. The 6 is also good, but definitely worthwhile to go for the 8." Yes, the RP8 is an awesome deck. Compared to any Rega 3 you... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @dover "But the apex of lunacy arrived when he advertised a "real" Dynavector Karat Nova 13D here on audiogon with the cartridge mounted in the unique headshell upside down." it's nice to see credit still being given where its due. When... | |
| What's going on with the used audio gear market? @harrylavo It's not only the used audio market that could collapse...but if it does, it's likely to be temporary, and it's likely to recover. The recovery is usually triggered by an increase in spending as those with capital seek to take advant... | |
| Busted! Reviewer copies manufacturers sales page in review? @2psyop I am not sure why anybody would believe anything written in these magazines. I always looked at them for entertainment value only, I never took them seriously. Did you? I'm afraid I did. As a newcomer to the world of separates audio... |