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| If you had to narrow your choices to 4 - 5 speakers I'd visit the High Water Sound room and listen to whatever speakers they have brought. Pretty eclectic and not for rock, but to my ears, the sound has been breathtakingly natural, which I attribute to their love of music and their skill of matchi... | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices Yes, I'm aware. I watched a family member try on a $700,000 ring in the diamond district of New York. They liked us and knocked off $100,000 but we were running late for a show. For the low-volume manufacturer, it's not the cost of materials th... | |
| New Synergistic Master Fuse The increased pricing of each new Synergistic fuse is pretty strong evidence that the game afoot here is expectation bias, leveraging trite, shallow assumptions that you get what you pay for. and newer is better. The money-back trial is just a ma... | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices Taking a chicken or egg view, I think the customer already existed for the $5000 power cord and manufacturers use packaging and marketing to be the one that customer chooses. It's like the $20,,000 engagement ring or the $500 perfume--someone wan... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! Zen and art of HiFi maintenance. You become one with the equipment, drawing closer to the experience. Same phenomena with old British automobiles. At some level, being an audiophile is the feedback loop of obsessive "taking care of" with attenti... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero Seems to me, the companies should invest in their dealers by providing one unit that is only for demos in the store or customer's home. Paint it purple as a not-for-sale unit. If the purple people pleaser satisfies the customer, they can order a... | |
| Best DACs under $7,000.00 I had the original Terminator and found it a little dull in my system. Then I upgraded to Terminator 2 with Gaia clocked from the Terminator 2 and have been quite satified to the point where I think the system's weakest link has moved to the spea... | |
| DAC diminishing returns I really think the Benchmark DAC2 is the steal. Yes, there's a DAC3 but even they feel that's getting into diminishing returns. They really know what they're doing, have impeccable credentials in the recording industry, and you can have what many... | |
| Linlai E 6sn7 tubes @invalid Thanks. | |
| Linlai E 6sn7 tubes Has anyone tried these in a VAC tube amp? I have their 200 IQ and wondering if they would fit and work. Thanks. | |
| How do you judge audio components and speakers? Is my foot tapping? Has my mouth quit jabbering? Can I faithfully repeat the lyrics? Is there space between this and that? Have I quit thinking? (Tricky to measure) Is my body leaning in or flinching? Does an egoless "Yes" rise from my heart? | |
| Axpona 2022 I continue to think the Estelons are the best speaker I've heard, but my purchases have to be no taller than my wife or fatter than my wallet. I always want to discount KEF as polite but the Ref 5's sounded very, very satisfying top-to-bottom in ... | |
| Audio Research Refernce 75se Unplug all the inputs and see if it still hums. If not, you might be hearing a humming phono input or cables that are picking up electromagnetic noise. | |
| Paypal Changes for 2022 I'm ticked at PayPal for taking a sizable hunk of the buyer's payment to me then sitting on MY money, first promising to give it to me the day after delivery, then sitting on it for two more weeks because "I hadn't used PayPal for awhile" (sounds ... | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good Byrds--Mister Tamborine Man Beatles-- Help soundtrack Jethro Tull--Stand Up Kinks--Muswell Hillbillies Warren Zevon--Excitable Boy Dylan-- Blood on the Tracks Janis Ian-- Breaking Silence Sharon Shannon--The Diamond Mountain Sessions (Irish... |