clearthinker
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| High expectations when listening to an orchestra The key reproduction issue on full orchestra is massed violins.However good your system is, they just sound mushy or glassy with an applied gloss or sheen that is not present in the concert hall. This certainly degrades the listening experience f... | |
| What is your favorite album cover? Blonde on Blonde, one of the first rock gatefolds.It really used the space with a fold out half-length photo of the artist in a suede jacket, the image slightly out of focus, seemingly alluding to the complex instrumentation of the music inside.Th... | |
| eBay / PayPal: Beware - enough is never enough. 50 years ago most big companies treated customers fairly most of the time.Now most big companies cheat their customers most of the time.For a big company it seems honesty is not the best policy.The only way to redress this is to vote with our feet. | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? It'll be a bit like Tektons. | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? 10% as good as $25,000 cables.Not. | |
| Drivers and how to clean them: Notes from ScanSpeak Thanks Erik.Surely it's about time to reintroduce activated water for the benefit of the many snake-oil customers here?Oh. I just searched for information about it and find it's already back with hits on suppliers and phoney tech stuff on 'the sc... | |
| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... " Electric charges typically flow as slowly as a river of warm putty. And in AC circuits, the moving charges don’t move forward at all, instead they sit in one place and vibrate." Hi EdgewoundSeems like nonsense to me.Suggest you buy a mile of ... | |
| Seller ants my credit card info First time ever 20+ members have all agreed on something.Rather suggests OP asked a silly question. | |
| What Is The Most Romantic Song That You Have Ever Listen To? Romantic songs always sound more romantic thru a $100 fuse. | |
| Does length matter ? If cable length doesn't matter you can be damn sure cable type makes no difference either. | |
| So done with audiophile fuses Yeah, sorry. There are already nuts in earlier threads who think fuses are directional.It also makes a difference how they are twisted in the holder.I put a little bit of salt inside, it brings out the high frequencies very nicely. Must draw out... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Glad a lot of us like Zappa.Anything from 'Shut Up and Play Your Guitar, 3 disc vinyl box, good sound too.Yes guys, 'Watermelon' is right up there. | |
| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... Brilliant analogy MillerBut it destroys your position.The car is not moving or changing shape. But an intermediate effect makes it look like it is.But the car is still not moving or changing shape.It is just an induced error in the viewer's perce... | |
| New ebay payments require SS#? Madness in the USAAre you really saying that sellers will pay tax on the gross proceeds of sale?What about the cost price. Crazy.Does Walmart pay profits tax on its turnover??Someone's got something wrong, even the US government isn't that stupid. | |
| Keeping backup equipment? I have two systems but one runs fully balanced with mostly no option, the other single-ended, so I cannot exchange electronics. |