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| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. This post has acquired an interesting and persistent energy. ASR is clearly neither trivial nor unpersuasive or why would so many try to denounce it? I occasionally go to ASR to read their reviews. Their contributors don't appear to be particular... | |
| From Audio Note AN/J-D to where? As you are in Europe and have an interest in horns, have you listened to Avantgarde's line of speakers? | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. petaluman: I am aware the small list of speakers I mentioned are "box" designs (stretching the definition for the Genelecs and the Dutch&Dutch) and am well aware of the several categories of speakers that are not of a box design. My comment w... | |
| Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc. Air Tight is very highly regarded, but probably gets more discussion on sites other than Audiogon, just as do other highly regarded tube amplifier brands, thinking Jadis, VAC, NAT, Nagra, Margules. Air Tight enjoys a reputation in tube amplificati... | |
| Somebody Please Make This Already... This seems to be a device more like a professional mixer than a preamp. | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. petaluman: Amir has explained his choice of speaker measurement, the Spinorama, because of its closeness to the measurement in an anechoic chamber. There are explanations giving details of the setup on the ASR site. He has posted his main system... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. People here get their pants in a bunch over ASR, its contributors and its methods. You would think they were doing something illicit. Their methods are explained and disclosed, their results are published, the results are open for comment. As that... | |
| Air Tight 300B Flame Out Red plate, from the sound of it. Is there a failure on your bias board? | |
| looking for bookshelves - Another usual boring speaker discussion The Alta Alyssa comes well reviewed. | |
| Replace tubes yearly? Yes, change those bad year-old tubes. Send them to me, I'll take care of them. | |
| What would you save in a fire? Clothes on my back, a couple of days worth of clothing. Any money, some small sentimental items, a watch, my laptop and phone. Peeps and pets. Old family photos. Everything else is replaceable. | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? "But folks, you can rent virtually anything - cars, dump trailers, DJ equipment, $50k RED cinema cameras, boats, Ferraris, someone’s personal house, etc. Seems like the only thing you can’t rent is hifi gear. " Not really the same. If I am a land... | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? Camera rentals are usually done by pros who need a specific piece of gear for a short-term project. Lots of professional equipment is rented this way. A DAC at $14K (ridiculous, IMO) is rented to someone who wants to hear a particular piece of ge... | |
| Would you rent a $14,000 DAC for $75 per day? No. And it might have been $14K to the initial purchaser, but rental value would be calculated on used fair market value since a used article is what is rented. And then there is the issue whether any DAC is worth $14K given the considerably lower... | |
| Your journey with lower-watt tube amps -- Can a kit be good enough? Have you checked out the offerings by bottlehead? |