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Responses from clearthink
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. cleeds why don't you come out from behind you're keyboard and reveal your interest, associations, and alliances within the audio community that lead you to these nonsensical, meaningless, illogical positions, arguments, and beliefs or do you prefe... | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. viridian "Manufacturers now post into the forums dogmatically espousing their myopic view of the hobby, shamelessly pimping their own products and view of the audio world and, even more disturbingly, running down opposing brands.IMHO, it may b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? rauliruegas"Did you mounted and tested that NOS stylus replacement?,"What would be the purpose, advantage, or benefit from mounting, installing, and aligning a cartridge that is obviously damaged, defective, and broken that does not make any sense. | |
| Reel to reel orpheus10"Reel to reel is ultimate audio, this is unequivocal fact"It is an "unequivocal fact" for those who enjoy the euphonic noise, distortion, and unlinearity inherent in the use of analog tape no matter the deck and tape formulation there i... | |
| Power - where to start? Mains, chords, conditioner, filter? There is no purpose, advantage, or benefit from adding potentially expensive, elaborate, or intrusive "upgrades" to your power delivery system if you do not first examine, study, and measure you're current service what is the voltage what is the p... | |
| Blind Testing is Dead - Long live My Wallet testing. cd318"if these esteemed reviewers with all of their years and years of listening and critically evaluating equipment cannot reach a clear evaluation through blind testing then we are forced to conclude that either the differences are so sublimin... | |
| Digital, Low Mass, ClassD, Less expensive, Let it happen! michaelgreenaudio "It looks like there might be more threads on Class D around the web now than other Classes."That may be because Class D has developed a cult like following of those consumed with religious fervor who seek to advance, promote, ... | |
| Blind Testing is Dead - Long live My Wallet testing. millercarbon"Components should have stickers like wine: 92 points- rich, fully developed acoustic space, strong wood notes but not too brassy"Those who are knowledgeable, educated, and experienced do not need others to tell them how equipment so... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? rauliruegas "Japanese entreprises as Sony, Technics, JVC, Denon, Accuphase and many others are almost second to none with the kind of research level and human been talent and economic resources that small companies can't even " dream " to approa... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects millercarbon" Talk about snake oil! System dependent? Not that I have ever seen!...if its good it will sound good in every system. Period. Or it ain’t good. Its literally the definition of good...the vast majority of cables are crap. Granted even ... | |
| Cartridge distorting progressively during playback It defies all sense, reason, and logic for you to suffer such an extreme problem with your phono cartridge and yet after coming hear for advise you state, declare, and pronounce that this cartridge "Tracks perfectly." | |
| Is there a difference in sound quality when streaming TIDAL Vs CD player larry5729 "doesn’t tracking needle against the groove on vinyl create a lot of noise?"No not unless something is wrong with the components, calibration, or alignment. | |
| A tubed integrated amp for Joseph Audio Pulsars? beeswax "You know what I suddenly just wished? That sales of all audio equipment were tracked and published and we could see, in numbers, what everyone, everywhere, is really buying."Of what value, use, or utility would such a sales record, rank... | |
| Blind Testing is Dead - Long live My Wallet testing. cd318"It is the elephant in the room as far as audio reviewing is concerning. They could and should do it, but know only too well the consequences."Of what practical use, utility, or function would a blind test undertaken by a critic, reviewer, ... | |
| CD Transports It is not true that CD transports "just spin the discs" so I would therefore consequently recommend, advise, and encourage you to listen for yourself before arriving at a conclusion, decision, or outright purchase or acquisition. |