cmariner1

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What do "audiophiles" use to judge equipment?
Complete Guide to High End Audio is not a spec sheet. 
Does listening to music increase your IQ?
Music increasing IQ is not going to happen. You need to work the brain; you need to exercise it; you need to challenge it. Sitting back with a glass of wine listening to music is relaxing - you may lose IQ. Here is how to increase your IQ if you a... 
Tubes or Solid State?????
"Audiophiles" are mostly techno-cats who listen with their eyes. 
Trelja and friends in New York, 2004
Wow! What happened to this forum? Here, in 2004, we have an actual rendition of something interesting in audiophile land! Now, all I see on this forum is BS-whiners and know-it-alls. Here's to the old days... 
What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire?
You hear it dragging on the floor. 
Bi-wire changes for non bi-wire speakers
Bi wire is senseless. It does not produce better sound to the listener.  
At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home?
Certainly. All you need is a concert theater and a full orchestra. It's easy. 
Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components?
Music’s effect of washing your emotional baggage clean and refreshing your soul is something that can’t be tested. You either have music appreciation or you do not. Jabbering is not music appreciation: it is BS, and so much on this site is just that. 
Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again
Commie rig. 
VINYL SUCKS!
Good music on a good system is good. Period. Why all this duncedom?