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| cajun zydeco Try BeausoleilP.S. Unless you speak French, lyrics are not a big concern when it comes to Cajun music. | |
| best preamp under 500 for cheap, poor student Subdoofus:To answer your question, if the DVD player's volume control sounds good to you and gives adequate gain, I would question buying a pre. If, however, such is not the case, or you need to switch other sources, then a pre would be in order.T... | |
| DACs with volume controls Creek makes such a device (OBH14???). | |
| Washington Post Article The majority of the above thread appears to me as though we're trying to kill the messenger because we don't like the message??? | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Jay, I think that you may misunderstand what I said. In your example, the gain in power may be real and thereby detectable as "statistically significant". But it is the practical significance of such a trivial gain that is in question. And I agree... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" The community should understand the difference between "statistical" and "practical" significance. Consider the following example.Through omniscience, we know that:Car A gets 20.1 mpg.Car B gets 20.2 mpg.Obviously, the TRUE difference between the ... | |
| New Maggie Owner; What amp???? I have SMGa's in one of my systems and with respect to the question "How much power do Maggies need?" the correct answer is always MORE. They really need as much power as you can give them to get them to "bloom." I am using separates with an amp r... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" I've done a bit of poking around the Net and looked at the North American Industrial Classification System maintained by the Bureau of the Census. The industrial structure is pretty much as I painted it in the last post, only with more levels in t... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Rgd, forgive me for my skepticism, but have you (or anyone here) actually observed or been involved in the manufacture of cables? I would think that the extrusion of the jacket/insulation over the cable would be very difficult to perform by hand a... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Uh-oh Plasma, you're up to it again :-) | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Leafs, I thought that you didn't believe in tests? So now why are you slamming MIT based on the result of a pernicious and feared test?Oh, never mind. I now understand that if it is a controlled test conducted in a systematic, unimpassioned, objec... | |
| question about BOSE reputation Jair, as you've noticed from the thread above, you've not gotten many specific recommendations other than avoid BOSE like the plague. This is good advice.Regarding your specific questions, most here are probably not that familiar with specific mod... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Why is it that several of the above posts hurl aspersions at John Dunlavy, yet not one post has hinted at any semblence of concern or displeasure with the cable manufacturers? Can someone explain the psychology at work here? | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Plasma, take a look at my post on the "Are Audiophiles Obsessive Nuts?" thread here on Agon, and I won't bother to repeat it here. Thanks for the link to the essay by Dunlavy; he sure speaks more authoritatively than do I. Thank God there are some... | |
| Are Audiophiles Obsessive Nuts? Larryr, I agree that not all of existence or experience lends itself to empirical confirmation. Yet, as imperfect as it is, empiricism is ultimately the only guard that we have against hucksters and opportunists. When you have a hobby that involve... |