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Responses from clearthinker
| Anyone else feel like they are “transported” INTO the music Yup. That's what it's all about. | |
| A Serious Subwoofer VERY silly. | |
| user poll on seperates vs integrated Response 1. Three boxes cost more to make than one. At a total spend of $10k too much in hard dollars is being spent on boxes (and leads between them). At a bigger total spend, boxes and leads are a smaller proportion of the whole. Respons... | |
| Taylor Swift Concert Prices The artist takes only about 15% of the gross. All sorts of other people have muscled in, including the taxman. Not for me. | |
| Monitor Stands - Made of Stone @erik_squires "In general I believe we should: MInimize the contact surface" You mean spikes. Indeed. You're talking my language. Also, remember that if you put your speakers on a concrete floor, that is like a very big stone. I have a l... | |
| How rare is an audiophile Whilst there must be doubt about actual numbers, what can certainly be said is that we are getting rarer.. Gen Xers, Zers and Millennials are not at all interested in the quality of sound, that's how MP3 and all the other competitor low-grade sys... | |
| Picture worth a penny LOL!!!! Sure beats worrying about problems that really matter and can't be solve. | |
| Poll: Most impactful component Fuse connecting turntable, anyone? | |
| Your audiophile chair +1 @mbmi Don't use a high back chair. Padding behind the ears doesn't fix room boundary issues by simply shutting off reflected sound from the rear. The room has to be fixed. | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? A very silly question but I will respond from my usual from my usual standpoint. Probes could be entered in the brain that measure the concentration of dopamine being secreted. The more dopamine, the more pleasure. I'm sure scientists will have... | |
| What sonic qualities connects to you deeply and emotionally? Piano. Must be expertly played, Cello. | |
| A ridiculously cheap cable riser. Extremely silly. Cheap plastic is never going to cut it. Cable risers only work if made out of rare earth metals. And the effect is better if you can get the cables more than a foot above the floor | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? Pace John Atkinson and his bass, but it depends on how much processing. If he just amplifies the sound direct from the instrument using a vanilla amplifier then yes, a direct comparison between systems can have validity. But if the signal is pro... | |
| "But it sounds better at night...." Please let's not. | |
| Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component? Wrong question. I know I wouldn't spend £300,000 on a pair of speakers, however much I like their sound. I probably wouldn't spend £100,000. But I found their sound to be far, far better than the £25,000 speakers I have now I might do. If they... |