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| Is this an right time to buy hifi? In Miller's world, don't buy hi-fi, gold, silver or even food.Buy weapons. | |
| Warning: China-Hifi-Audio.com Unfortunately it's still the Wild West out there (Wild East?).Their government has no interest in enforcing western business standards, presumably feeling their people should be modelled in their own image. Don't expect improvement any time soon.... | |
| Bang for the buck vs. “money no object” cable recommendations The OP asked us for 'cost no object' recommendations, so here goes:Most of us don't have the money even to rent these cables so we won't have heard them but I did 10 minutes googling.Siltech Triple Crown power cable costs £55,000 for 2m. Price of... | |
| Am I crazy? Definitely! Miller, you've hyped Moabs five times here already.Repeating your msg will not get it across.It just annoys me and many other people here.Can it. | |
| The Contour System – Directional Wiring of Audio Parts Anton, "...your perception begins to confidently distinguish it from everything else..."Differences in SQ can only be confidently distinguished by properly run blind testing.If you are not testing blind, your results are personal and subjective an... | |
| Analog upgrade path You don't say what cartridge you are using.It isn't a good idea to upgrade turntable and skimp on the phono amp.Getting a nice phono stage will certainly be the single best sound quality for money move for you now..I have had many ARC pieces; unti... | |
| My journey to find a speaker + amp + setup for classical music (piano) Yes, +1 Spendor for your programme, at the relatively budget end.I note you don't list any electrostatics. Piano is very suited to full range electrostatics giving a very lifelike rendering. Full range is a real advantage because piano is full-r... | |
| Speaker Spike Philosophy Morning Miller. Boing boing!A spring so unstiff that it is compressed to half its free length by the mass of the speaker is certainly going oscillate all day long in response to the cone/membrane movements in the speaker and the air moved by them... | |
| Finally found a space for the speakers I’ve been storing... and I don’t love them any more Don't buy Tekton. That would just be compounding your error.+1 Douglas When comparing speakers always use the same partnering components, so you are only listening to the speaker differences. That's fundamental.Perhaps also listen to the Pa... | |
| One Cord To Rule Them All Thanks cakyol.You are surely right! Save that I've got a lot of sense :-)You've probably read my posts elsewhere about the juice coming from the power station via the sub-station and your house wiring. Unless it contains active filtering circui... | |
| One Cord To Rule Them All Well Koestner, perhaps you borrow 5 foot of fancy cable and buy 5 foot of cooker wire. Do a listening test.Please come back and tell us all about it. | |
| One Cord To Rule Them All Power wire is power wire guys. End.Miller, you're forgetting Class A.My Krell KRS200s pull down more than a kW per side full-time.Ready to provide instantaneous fully powered action. | |
| What is the average life expectancy of a DAC? DACs are of course the bane of digital audio.The residual distortion and dither they cause may be reduced to close to nil, but never to nil.For sensible people, their expected life must be inversely proportional to the cost price.Perhaps a table c... | |
| For all you Vinyl lovers! In the final scene in the workshop, the record is warped.Just saying.I love vinyl. | |
| I just bought a Steinway which sounds like a banjo. Most of you guys can't read. But then we already knew that.The OP isn't complaining about his system.Indeed he says nothing about his system at all.Nor is his system relevant to his post.OP is saying we are using the wrong terminology to describe... |