devinplombier
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| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT The less people understand something, the more they fight about it. You rarely see people fighting about amps. | |
| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? It seems that nostalgia becomes a big part of this, and people want to listen to the music that was the "soundtrack of their youth". For me, I have almost no feelings of nostalgia associated with music, so when I listen to music, I listen based ... | |
| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? What I find interesting that even when I find something that sounds new or is in a different style I didn’t listen to before I am still kind of looking for the same things. @chmaiwald That is insightful. I find I do the same, although I don’t... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @soix @russbutton You are both correct. Streamers are nothing but computers, and often not very good ones (think Raspberry Pi 4 or 5) unless you’re in the mood for something like a $31,000 Taiko Extreme which, besides being an exquisite ... | |
| Favorite scream in rock? OK I’ll throw another one in :) "A Change Is Going to Come" by Baby Huey Great song, too! | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT I guess I will just continue to ask dumb questions until I arrive at the right answers @nubiann First, sorry about the above post. It's just that all-caps grate. Second, your questions are thoughtful and on point imo. They are far less dumb ... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT THEY ARE IF YOU BELIEVE THEY ARE What’s the deal with all caps titles? | |
| Can we make major musical discoveries at age 50, 65, or 80? @asvjerry Thank you for nudging Pop Up the Volume out of memory's deep storage... I may have forgotten much of the 80s, but Art of Noise has been one of my favorite bands ever since Into Battle | |
| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? @allenf1963 I haven't pulled any of the woofers but I think you are correct. I recall reading they are Watkins Dual Drive. Thanks for the link. Watkins is still in business in Kingsport TN. They will refoam, realign and thoroughly check Infinit... | |
| Thiel Owners beetlemania I totally hear you :) Then again, you had the invaluable benefit of being guided by perhaps the most qualified person on Earth. This, I think you will agree, is an unusual circumstance. I was on my own for my last rebuild, short of ... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? Packing and shipping 500 or 700 lbs worth of speakers is expensive and not for everyone. Relying on the local market is usually an exercise in futility, unless your speakers are much sought after, or extremely competitively priced, or you live in ... | |
| Thiel Owners Most crossovers use film caps in the HF circuit from the factory. In LF / MF circuits, I tend to replace same with same when I rebuild crossovers, figuring that where the designer used electrolytics they took the latter's inherently higher ESR int... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? VU meters are useful, too, all the more so on amps with dodgy power claims (not the case with McIntosh, obviously). Meters warn you the amp is getting kneecapped before it actually happens. Bob Carver always had the good sense to put meters on hi... | |
| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? @allenf1963 Right now I have Infinity RS-II speakers driven by a pair of Classé monoblocks. I just rebuilt the crossovers and they sound fantastic. They are very underrated speakers imo. They do dip to 2 ohms across the HF range and they need h... | |
| Help with Equitech 1.5Q power conditioner So maybe I am conceptualizing this all wrong. I guess in my mind I view electricity like water. It flows in through the hot pipe and out the neutral pipe, if you will, and the ground catches spills :) Here we have 2 hots at 60V each flowing in t... |