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| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl Mach12Based on 2nd law of Thermodynamics, if you play the same vinyl track 10 times in a row, you will experience different sound every time and every next play you will DEVIATE more from the ORIGINAL RECORDING due to DISORDER (like tiny particles... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl Unless you go through a lot of hoops, digital generally still sounds thin, unnatural, bloated, bass shy, inarticulate, congealed, zippy, two dimensional, generic, metallic, electronic, like paper mache, bland, hard, piercing, compressed, airless a... | |
| Speaker toe in Toe-in is essentially an old school left-over idea from the 70s and 80s, prior to the whole concept of tweaks, especially room treatment. You know, before Tube Traps, Corner Tunes, tiny little bowl acoustic resonators, etc. and before speaker set-... | |
| Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker! Pop quiz! Are spikes couplers or decouplers? | |
| Favorite cover? The Ramones cover of Eric Burdon and The Animals' When I was Young | |
| Worth pursuing analog sound from digital? Listening age is an old wives tale. | |
| Different systems playing same music simultaneously One imagines nobody has heard of the problems associated with multiple speaker rooms or, if they have, assume just because the speakers/systems are in separate rooms they don’t affect each other. Even if they don’t act acoustically. It’s similar t... | |
| Interconnects and Speaker Cable, What in your history hit your pleasure button? tubesandhornsHaving used a lot of manufacturers interconnects and cables over the last few decades, one product stands out for me. Inakustic cables (and their remarkable AC conditioner) are the finest I have heard.Perhaps not the highest profile i... | |
| Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker! Oh, brother! | |
| Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker! Is it just me but don’t springs seem like the obvious choice to put under a sub? | |
| Worth pursuing analog sound from digital? Sorry, not buyin’ it. Digital is a pale facsimile of what it should be. I don’t even have to compare it to analog. Unless you’re extremely motivated and pugnacious you simply can’t extract all of the data on the CD. No way, Jose! And if you don’t ... | |
| Worth pursuing analog sound from digital? Good catch! | |
| Would switching amps make a big difference? The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. TTTTTTTTTTT | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? I’m a poet and don’t know it.Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bi-atchesI’ll recruit my army from the orphanagesI been to St. Herman’s church and I’ve said my religious vowsI’ve sucked the milk out of a thousand cows | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl Digital frequently sounds “super clean” - hyper-analytical you could say - but that’s because it’s missing a lot of the harmonica and other information, like the bass harmonics and sweetness and air. The missing information also gives a false sens... |