denverfred
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| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption I like to remember Nietzsche's description of the world's happiest creature: the cow in her pasture, chewing her cud, totally devoid of any lasting memories. Our memory of auditory experiences is notoriously poor and may partially explain a tenden... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Just a semantic difference. It's all Performance Art. Theatre departments are beginning to move from classes in "Oral Interpretation of Literature" to classes in "Spoken Word." Adding rhythm and sound effects to poetry is not new. There is convinc... | |
| Peeking inside a Carver Crimson 275 Tube Amplifier IMO Carver starts new companies so he won't have to be responsible for the cheap crap he designed while learning the craft and that's now breaking down. I once sold a new Carver piece for $5 as is just so it would leave my store and never return.... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? Most Rap/Hip Hop is poetry accompanied by music. Check out "Poetry Slams" to hear Rap without the rhythm section. I question the "musicianship" of many rappers. I question whether they can read music, play an instrument, etc. Anyone who thinks th... | |
| Audio Friends Don't Let Audio Friends ... Always begin a critique with as many Positives as you can come up with. Romance them. Then, when you smack them with one negative (phrased very carefully) the impact is not only softened but it carries more weight. | |
| Paypal Changes for 2022 Highly recommend anyone making a true PROFIT from this business talk to a good tax lawyer in your own state. I used to write off expenses in a high-end horse breeding project in which the difference between a hobby and a taxable business was deter... | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? The electricians are essential to our endeavors. Their input is incredibly valuable and important in the grand scheme. I just don't want them deciding what sound I like (or can't hear). | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses I've seen input here re: the directionality of fuses and the need for burn in. Question: If I install a fuse in the wrong direction will it eventually "burn" into the desired directionality? | |
| How to tame a bright system? I chose Dynaudio speakers over B&W for exactly this reason. The B&W tweeter may measure impeccably but it can really get edgy. Tube buffer? | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? Read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and discover that the physics/abstraction dichotomy is first dramatized as early as the fifth century BC. Collateral reading: The Bacchae by Euripides. The conclusion I draw is that BOTH the Apollonian electr... | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. @ted_denney +1 And an interesting view from the manufacturing end of the industry. Somehow, B&M retailers must rediscover the "value added" that used to come with shopping with a specialty store. It may actually cost too much money off the ... | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon Medical sciences today owe a lot to Germain’s doctors like Mengele Using these knowledges was once a big ethical question.. IT STILL IS! PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR POINT. | |
| Science that explains why we hear differences in cables? It is so reassuring to know that the venerable and ever-righteous electricians are willing to take time out of their busy measurements and calculations to instruct we Dionysians on our hearing! I'm sure all thinking audiophiles will agree that we ... | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? HOONK! | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. All of the excellent stories above serve to illustrate in technicolor the dilemma faced by anyone trying to sell music retail. Back in the day I sold pianos and organs at one time and then hifi gear at another, and I confronted the contradiction. ... |