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| I had a few drinks and bought some speakers OP, thanks for a terrific thread. I don't drink, but it hardly matters: this topic is 100% about human nature... | |
| What Is The Most Romantic Song That You Have Ever Listen To? Too many to list, so 3 suggestions. 1st is from the '60s but I didn't hear it 'til 2 years ago. 2nd is very recent. 3rd is classic bossa nova. All 3 are quite romantic (and blue):Irma Thomas/"Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)"https:... | |
| What Makes your System Special? I’ve had a number of systems over the years: at least 3 different 2-channel setups in 1st house; casual 2-channel system in TV viewing area of this 2nd house; and a series of ever-changing gear in home office which has a complicated desktop/nearfi... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? +1 to jjss49’s comment about Wyred 4 Sound. I have the ST-500 in my desktop system, and it has worked with synergy and real impact powering some excellent 2-ways (Aerial Acoustics 5Bs; ATC SCM12 Pro’s; and now the vintage/beautiful-sounding KEF 10... | |
| I'm here for the sharing, not the snobery This thread is welcome, given how many other threads are bulldozed off-course by rude, insecure individuals who pollute discourse with attitude & snark. "Rude" is the word for it... I’ve learned plenty from this or that thread on Audiogon and ... | |
| All things being equal (hypothetical) which do you prefer, XLR or RCA? This construct of "which do you prefer, XLR or RCA cables" is kind of backwards. Choice of XLR vs RCA (single ended) cables follows the design of source equipment such as DACs & preamps, in which either balanced or single ended designs may be ... | |
| My NAD 3020 D proves your Class D tropes are wrong I kind of backed into class D amp’ing when I set up my 1st real desktop audio system w/discreet DAC in this home office ~2008 (after years of 2.1 "computer systems" running of a soundcard). There’s no room on this crowded desktop for class A/B or ... | |
| Low gain dac! My rather complex desktop audio system has gain issues. They first emerged when I went from delta-sigma DACs outputting 1.9V to a NOS DAC outputting 2.5V. Gain issues worsened when I went from that NOS to another NOS w/3.0V output. There are all k... | |
| Tube Dealers 2021 +1 for Brent Jesse. He's an unusual combination of knowledge, apparently vast NOS inventory, and honest business practices. | |
| stereo review magazine I read SR from the late '70s to the end-of-the-line. But along the way, I figured out that when it came to audio, subjectivity rules, at least in the buyer/user side of the house (though not for mfr/designer). I wasn't getting anywhere when I foll... | |
| Backup Generator transfer switch I’ve been reading Fremer’s articles with interest (and horror). It seems like an audiophile’s worst nightmare.I had a 20 KW Generac whole house generator (propane-fired) + ATS installed ~12 years ago. I was running a lot of billing through my home... | |
| Help Me Choose or Confuse Me More To O.P.: If you mentioned distance from back of speakers to back wall, I didn’t catch it. And that distance really matters in a small home office.My home office is maybe 13’ x 13’, but a large double closet bump-out makes it more like 11’ x 13’. I... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Not a concert, a musical play: Les Miserables, a show by the touring (not Broadway) company at West Point's Eisenhower Theater. I suspected it would be bad music, but went because we were with another couple who professed great anticipation of thi... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Thanks to the O.P. for an entertaining thread--and a great attitude about audio in general.Example: "I decided I would try to have Oriental Patience from then on." | |
| I nominate this company as building best speakers! I’m happy for the O.P. in 2 ways: he found speakers that thrill him; and he apparently can afford their price. Those 2 things don’t often happen together!Side comment about the Ohm Walsh speakers mentioned above: one of the many pleasures of Prime... |