devinplombier
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| 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... | |
| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? @allenf1963 Yes that was me, and you did do a good deed indeed :) Incidentally, that started me thinking about musical discoveries later in life and I just posted a new thread about that. I’m looking forward to hear what folks say https://foru... | |
| Help with Equitech 1.5Q power conditioner So, essentially the outlets on the back of the Equitech are wired the same way as old 240V appliances, the kind that had 3-wire cords. Correct? How does it handle floating-ground loads? I’m a bit confused | |
| New In 2025 Ministry is still recording? I was a big fan of theirs, and their side projects like 1000 Homo DJs and especially Lard featuring Jello Biafra | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato Jazz is no more only black as in 1930, no more American as in 1960 it is universal music phenomenon Besides the fact that holding forth on which culture belongs to whom is kind of a hazardous pastime nowadays, it is also misleading. Take the b... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? The problem with many sellers of high-end audio is that they don't actually have to sell. They can afford to keep ridiculously overpriced gear ads up for months on end, polluting resale sites for other users. This contributes to a paradoxical ma... | |
| What were your top musical discoveries of 2024? Most definitely Bohren und der Club of Gore. | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato so I say, let's agree to take Greenland by force! @goodlistening64 for a sec I thought the AI actually wrote this! hahaha | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato I sincerely wish that I'm wrong and you (@tyray) are right about this, but I have to confess that I'm skeptical. Not to take sides here, but @tyray is right, definitely so in my experience. You say you don't see many young people at concerts. ... | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Heads and shoulders above any and all of the above is Suicide's 1977 classic song Frankie Teardrop. Play at maximum volume And to reassure those who feel disoriented outside the genre boundaries of boomer rock, Bruce Springsteen did cite Frankie... | |
| «Today’s Lyrics Are Pathetically Bad» Rick Beato How about a protest song for the 2020s, folks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sER0FzJO-c0&pp=ygUNQ2hhdCBQaWxlIHdoeQ%3D%3D If Bob Dylan were 25 he might sound like this |