don_c55
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| Good CDs Bad Recording If the recording is bad the CD is bad! | |
| Headphone no cost limit. I hate these "what’s best" posts. Nobody has heard everything. It comes down to personal taste, and there really is no "best"!Ok to be fair here are more opinions. FYI, you and I will never hear them! They are an unobtainable, very limited run IMO... | |
| Headphone no cost limit. tis49The author is a marketer for Sennheiser. Speaker Boxx and radiohead music ?????Read the followup comments on the Wired article.The new Sennheiser-Orpheus is nonsense, and a ripoff IMO! I do not see the $55,000 cost in them!It is not even tru... | |
| Headphone no cost limit. Head-FI is the largest and best headphone site. Biggest forum. Thousands of posts. Many reviews. World views from many experts.Forget innerfidelity. It is one person’s opinion. He tries to measure and fails.Like any ’BEST" post, YMMV, and IMO.Read... | |
| Headphone no cost limit. STAX SR-009 with the right driver amp (usually tube or FET/Tube hybrid).I use an old Stax SRM T1S driver amp, with NOS RCA clear top tubes.STAX R&D uses a similar driver amp Today.The driver amp makes a big difference, and only a few are real ... | |
| Etiquette for a listening session? Today I only play my system for certain audiophile friends, that have similar musical tastes to me. Sometime these rare listening sessions go on for hours!I tell non audiophiles my system is only for concert type listening, simulating a dimly lit ... | |
| For Old Timers who experienced the "Golden Age" of Audio of the 60s and 70s. In 1975 I went into Wacks Audio in Milwaukee, and it started my journey.I talked to the owner, and he knew I had a big interest in audio.He took me up a flight of stairs to a locked room, that only certain customers got to see.Inside were Magnepla... | |
| VPI TNT Turntables @jollytinkerI know a lot about design, having worked in design, in the medical device industry for years.I would never work in the high end audio industry, because most all customers are irrational! | |
| VPI TNT Turntables @jollytinker They made 100 per year of the TNT turntables, and less profit then now.VPI sells much more, and makes more money now.Good for them. Harry knows a lot about hype and marketing!However the TNT series is as good as (or better) than anyth... | |
| Why are so many companies like harbeth making old speakers designs and charging thousends? Because they can!IMO they are no better than Acoustic Research speakers from the 70’s.I owned and liked AR speakers in the 70's. To each their own. | |
| Relationship of amplifier sound to transformer quality? The heavier the better! | |
| VPI TNT Turntables "I do find you have to be careful with vpi, a lot of their changes were made to lower manufacturing costs and marketed as "better"Very true, especially the last 15 years! | |
| VPI TNT Turntables The VPI Scout and many VPI turntables that have the motor in the plinth, send vibrations throughout the turntable.The heavy TNT motor using the "VPI designed" motor case, mounted outside the plinth, does not send vibrations throughout the turntabl... | |
| VPI TNT Turntables I like the VPI TNT motor and find it has very low vibration.I bought a spare, in case it can not be repaired.phoenixengr - You have issues with Harry of VPI, because he did not distribute your products, and your grudges show up here, and on AA. | |
| Tube dampeners on ARC gear ... FREE TWEAK Never liked dampers on tubes.They affect the thermal flow within the tube, and reduce the "Natural Bloom" of the music IMO! |