geoffkait
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| The ups and downs of tube vs. SS... Uh, when most people talk about tubes in the context of tubes vs solid state electronics I am pretty sure they’re referring to the whole electronics package. It’s an expression. You know, like I like tubes. Or I like how tubes sound. In that vein.... | |
| Balanced cables Just to clarify, even if there are some recording engineers with 4 year educations they are not equivalent to 4 year science or engineering educations, you know, like BA Physics or Aerospace Engineering or Engineering Physics or EE. That would be ... | |
| Balanced cables Well, let’s be honest. Recording engineers get what, about two years of training? I wouldn’t necessarily call it an engineering education since they actually don’t take any of the real important and difficult engineering and science courses, you k... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Sorry, we’ve eliminated placebo effect through careful testing. Better luck next time. | |
| WHAT HAS WORKED FOR YOU? ISOLATION PLATFORMS, FOOTERS, ETC. for a DAC? Lol. Lead is one of the worst materials for sound that has ever been perpetrated on naive and gullible audiophiles. Yes, I know it seems like a good idea, all soft and heavy like. 😛 Even the esteemed Pierre Sprey at Mapleshade grew to detest lead ... | |
| speaker cable prices Another vote for Goertz cables. Plus they understand wire directionality. | |
| speaker cable prices That last post makes too much sense. Ban that person! | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? mitch2Geoff, I did indeed try reversing a fuse and the most noticeable difference was the 15 minutes of my life I will never get back. I have now vowed to only try stupid audiophile parlor tricks at midnight during the fall switch from daylight sa... | |
| speaker cable prices stereo5I feel for you. I need 22 foot pairs of speaker cable and the cost is more than my first brand new car. I paid 2500 for my first brand new car in 1971. 47 years later, that 2500 would be more like 5-6K.Whoa! Maybe move the amps closer to th... | |
| Dealers hijacking the discussions Hell hath no fury like a troll scorned. | |
| re capping Cap and Recap were riding on a horse. 🐎 Cap fell off. Who was left? | |
| re capping Hey, same thing happened to the Quonset hut full of Volkswagen size non oil-filled capacitors the US Navy replaced oil-filled capacitors with on that secret communications project back in the 80s. They exploded. Of course the millions watts might ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Another great, great Wagner CD is the Solti Das Rheingold on Decca Heritage Masters label. Thus performance is from 1958, in extremely good Stereo sound, at Vienna, with London and Flagstad, and predates the more famous Solti Ring extravaganza jus... | |
| Naim and Elac Adante, Wow This is going well. 🤡 | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados You betcha! EMI label. Printed in Germany. 3 CD box set. |