denverfred
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| Stratospheric audio gear prices Thanks to Hilde45 for that great quote from Chen Xi. Here's another from the same paper:A large body of empirical evidence finds that low socio-economic status and resulting feelings of relative deprivation diminish people’s well-being, indicate... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? Right on, Hilde, MC, Nonoise. We are dealing with abstractions. Abstractions are abstract because they defy concrete explanations. We should welcome and commend the contributions made by the righteous electricians to our understanding of cables, s... | |
| My Apologies to Miller Carbon ITYS (I told you so.) Leave SS gear ON. Tubers . . . try it.I can hear the righteous electricians howling now. Electrons in/electrons out. I like my electrons HOT! | |
| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. OMG! It's MC the gay Motor! | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices To me, a piece of audio gear that costs as much as even an inexpensive car is just a manufacturer cashing in because they can. Wouldn't you?Whatever you make, sell, service?I just got back from lunch at I-Hop where I had one cup of decaf (no pots... | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV Big tubs of flab! | |
| McIntosh Took me 2 weeks to get an Apple watch! The $399 basic unit, not the Hermes. Chip shortage or is someone artificially constricting the supply chain to set new price floors? | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? I humbly suggest that the skeptic clan should reverse the cables between their pre and power amps and enjoy them that way for a few hours, if you can take it. Who's going to provide the data proving there is no difference? | |
| what is "B" stock I agree. B stock has already failed at least once in someone's system. You'll never know why or what happened. If the price is one you can't refuse and the source is a known quantity, I'd still do a lot of research. | |
| For Your Edification and Enjoyment re "Burn In", etc. Once again I ask: When are you guys going to prove empirically that all cables, caps, etc. sound the same? We're waiting for a full test on induced noise of all types plus study of impedance matching, phase coherence, etc. Do you really still use ... | |
| SQ vs. Music After suffering the slings and arrows of relatives’ braying about how I’m just "listening to the equipment" I began to catalogue all of the things that I listen to besides the music and equipment: noise; vinyl quality; vocal quality and timbre; ac... | |
| Best Server To Run Roon Core I found no need for extra computing power when I first installed Roon. I just put it here on my desktop iMac (old, 2009, 24", 4GB RAM). It isn't the fastest in the world, but acceptable for and old retired audio nut going on two years in the bas... | |
| Schumann Resonator I too can credit Mr Magister for turning me on to these guys. I bought 2 and must admit I didn’t expect much. Literature seems to emphasize the "calming" effect. I can attest to that. Improvements in SQ are very subtle and I would hate to predict ... | |
| New Audiophile going crazy What the hell are you going to do when you get to heaven! You need to trade one of your nicer old pieces to a young audio freak in exchange for his labor as your shipping clerk. If she's really good she'll be able to handle monitoring the ads too.... | |
| What exactly is textural density?? Another great catch by Mr Magister! That link is a great portal into the science behind all this audio psychology. Music is the MOST abstract of all art forms. The result, when trying to describe abstract ideas, is usually metaphor. Try writing ... |