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| Fed rate increase = lower hifi prices? @noske, I studied, a loose term I'll admit, economics for 3 years as part of my degree and whilst macro economics may have made a little sense, micro made no sense at all. In fact it was mindnumbingly dull. I remember discussing it with a postgr... | |
| Fed rate increase = lower hifi prices? @soix "In a few months the CPI comps to last year alone are gonna dramatically reduce inflation, and as supply channels gradually open inflation will fall even further and we’ll still have an economy growing at above 3%." Yes, that is one... | |
| Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation? The most contentious UK magazine was probably The Flat Response which later morphed into Hi-Fi Review in the 1980s. It was edited by one Chris Frankland who certainly had strong opinions about audio equipment. I recall reading that the SME arms g... | |
| Fed rate increase = lower hifi prices? @artemus_5 Fed rate increase = lower hifi prices? the rate increase has nothing to do with audio equipment! mostly on buying homes!! How do you come up with these ideas? If the rates go UP, the Mfgs,& the home buyer pay more for borrowi... | |
| I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged. @djones51 ABX and blind tests are the platinum standard. Sighted tests are dismissed as irrelevant, no way to have a control for bias. I fail to understand this idiotic aversion to science. This aversion to science seems to be endemic amon... | |
| Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation? @waytoomuchstuff And, who can forget?: "No highs. No lows. It must be Bose." Yes, and that simple formula continues to make millions for them. We here might want realism in audio but obviously many, manyore than us don’t. They seem to pre... | |
| Why Do You Post? I initially joined after reading a post by @prof a few years back. He seemed to be one of the very few who were even talking about timbre and tonal colour when it came to audio playback. That really made an impression on me and I decided to join ... | |
| Great Rock Bassists your Top 10.Rock not Jazz. But Hey what about Reggae @larsman I've only seen Hooky playing online, and he's always 'bloody good'. I can't help but like him, just a top quality bloke. | |
| How do you judge audio components and speakers? @dave_b @cd318 My comments were taken from my autobiography, “Sometimes a Stereo is Just a Stereo!” Now, now, you’ll start the rest of us off. Oh ok then, I couldn’t resist. My autobiography might be called something like "A Portrait of th... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? @lohanimal "I think the Roksan and Alvin Golds review of it then the Pink Triangle taught us there was another way. Hi Fi World were the magazine to open our eyes to what we missed out on with its classic section." I used to read Hi-World bu... | |
| I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged. @mahgister "The ears are not a PASSIVE detector system but an ACTIVE non linear one able to amplify" So far so good, just like the human eye is not a passive organ of perception. It is understood that the brain contributes as much to the int... | |
| How do you judge audio components and speakers? @dave_b The collective ID of most audiophiles is built from an OCD type hyper fixation combined with a need to gain control over some aspect of their lives, in this case, their audio system. It can be a release, a frustration and a friend. Kno... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? @lohanimal new decks - a lot of Emperors New Clothes IMHO. Harry Weisfeld of VPI once said in an interview to produce a Technics SP10 would require £30k - for tooling - the motor etc. In TT design the pinnacle of high tech relative to market us... | |
| Inexpensive Good Vintage Turntables? No to a vintage LP12. Even it's most ardent admirers often like to say how much it's improved in the last 20 years, and how the opinions of previous owners count for little. Besides, why subject yourself to sleepless nights fretting over poss... | |
| everything sounded great until the upgrade @audioguy85 Just do class A with some Tannoys and get off merry go round. Good advice but you know what we audiophiles are like. Only sheer exhaustion after many futile years of trying in vain can finally convince us. I’ve not upgraded my ... |