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| Why "Cryo" anything? It's your money...what you do with it is your business. At the very least it helps the economy keeping rolling."It's always ironic to me that most of those.." people that find science objectionable fail to realize that life as they know it, in eve... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Naturally, everyone is free to believe what they wish, but some of the sheep shearing I see in this hobby sets new highs in lows. I just took a break from working on my sailboat. If sailors bought into & embraced as much hokum as some audiophi... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? I'm not an MSE, but I am a chemist & have had some materials science...and I've used liquid nitrogen (I'm guessing liquid N2 is the cryo liquid being used in the cryo 'treatments') more times than I can remember. Liquid N2 is a pretty generic,... | |
| Kenwood L-02 tuner actually a unicorn Yet another unicorn...I did see a Sansui TU-X1 on the German Ebay site a few months back...I don't remember specifically, but I think it sold for somewhere between $1500 & $2000. | |
| Kenwood L-02 tuner actually a unicorn I thought I saw one once...but it turned out to be a weather ballon.. | |
| Distortion with Jolida JD100 I too run a Jolida 100 (Raytheon 5751 blacks) into a Jolida 502B and haven't noticed the distortion you're talking about...though I'll try similar tests to see what I can hear..so to speak. | |
| Who makes an active speaker that isn't ported? "I'm trying to think of a 3-way active speaker that isn't ported... "How about the Linkwitz Orions...3 way, active & no ports...no cabinets either :-) .Orions. | |
| Burned out Audiophile - Trying to Find some Zen There was a post by someone a while back, or perhaps I read it in the archives during a search, about two types of personalities...a "satisfier" and a "maximizer". The satisfier will buy something of good quality and be happy with it while a maxim... | |
| Sound Insulation- how much can it help? Line your floors, ceilings, & walls with 1/2 lead plate...and then acoustically treat the resulting room, or buy a home, or pop for some headphones. I'm guessing the headphones are looking pretty good at this point. | |
| Best Cd Player under $100,000 Hmmm...under $100K?...I wouldn't bother..everything is junk in that range...unless you have some of those new transuranium wafers that selectively absorb all bad things and only let the clean transparent signal eek through. | |
| Integrated Tube Around $1000 I run a fully modded (underwood, used Have you considered the Jolida tube/SS hybrids(more power)? | |
| Could somebody please explain Slothman...you are what you is...Frank wasn't ecletic..he by-passed eclectic and went straight to genius. I saw him in concert five times when I was a younger man. While I don't listen to him anywhere near as much as I used to, I didn't doubt then... | |
| What is a good polish for black acrylic? How about Novus on the clear-faceplate of a tuner?I've used a plastic polish by Meguiars on the carbonate windshield of a boat and it did a nice job with small scratches & cleared a little haze. | |
| Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc? Opus 3Limited collection, but there seems to be great attention payed to the recording.Opus 3 | |
| speaker excursion..."mo power"..and bass..Sean All I can say is "wow"...thanks to all for taking the time to explain this. The big-power pathway does make sense and as usual there are always excpetions, like the Orion/active-types, to generalities.Drew...your numbers-based approach really expl... |