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| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. We are kidding ourselves if we think this forum is mainly fact. Facts are things that proven or else are universally acknowledge to be true by everyone apart from the mad. Facts are hard to come by. This forum is about 90% opinion and 10% fact.... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital Of course everything matters. If it were just 0s and 1s all digital would sound exactly the same and be a perfect reproduction of the original performance.This is very far from the truth.There are far more variables and unknowables in digital tha... | |
| Is there a magic formula for spending on components in a system Yes.Spend $nil on CD player.Don't be a cable chump. Don't allocate much to cables until system spend gets to $10k. Cables can never add as much as active components at this level. Don't buy used cables, they deteriorate over time.Yes. If you d... | |
| Why perfect speakers dont exist the truth revealed You started yet? | |
| Why perfect speakers dont exist the truth revealed millercarbonsYou shouldn't need to ask.'room of appropriate size'Kenjitposits 'the other side of the wall will be infinitely big'.Therefore the wall will be infinitely big.Therefore the room on our side of the wall will also be infinitely big.Even... | |
| 100W, 200W, or 300W? Morning millercarbons.Setting the bar at 90dB is cutting out 80-90% of speakers made, including an awful lot of good ones. Per hundreds of tests I have read, manufacturers ALWAYS overstate sensitivity, by up to 5dB. I have NEVER seen a test come... | |
| Harbeth vs Vandersteen vs Sonner The reason all athletes don't wear the same shoes is nothing to do with the shoes. It's the millions of dollars the shoe companies pay them to wear the shoes.In passing, regrettably running shoes have reached the stage where they are assisting th... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Goodmans did sell speakers in finished cabinets in the UK in the 50s. My father had a single one (mono) he must have bought then. He moved to stereo soon after so when I built my first stereo system in 1962 I purloined it and 'matched' it with a... | |
| Cerious Tech Graphene vs Synergistic Foundation SC You cannot be cerious. | |
| LP - first needle drop or 2nd or 3rd?? Why have LPs and listen on CD??You should copy at the highest resolution available. | |
| Why hasn’t B&W ever entered the ultra hi-end for speakers? Selling ultra hi-end speakers for north of $200,000/pair is a risky business. Based more on fashion than quality. Better business to capture the mid and upper mid levels. Volume speaks louder than pricing.I had 801s for 20 years. Can someone t... | |
| Best isolation platform for a turntable with suspension? If you go mass-loading marble, no point in getting small pieces.My base is 60inches by 18 deep and 5 high standing on 8 solid cones on a concrete slab floor. The player stands on a stonework plinth on top of that. Weight in all must be around 10... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? I'm steaming fish. | |
| What do you sit on? My arse. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I'm cleaning my turntable mat tonight. So easy to forget in the rush to hear another wonderful recording...which then gets covered in dust and debris and needs washing again. |