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Room color opinions
As it turns out blue is best for walls whilst green is best for the ceiling. And, no, don’t try to pull the old controlled blind test thing on me. 🤠 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
Take’s a lot of energy correcting, moderating, admonishing, fending off, and damage controlling the trolls, don’t it? 😛In the sweet old country where I come fromNobody ever worksYeah nothing gets doneWe hang fire, we hang fire 
Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions?
Without philosophy we would not be having this discussion. 
Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 2)
This leaves the door wide open for a sequel, Hurricane Part 3. Much like Sharknado. 🦈 🦈 🦈 Only this time he’s going to talk about all the stuff he promised, you know, like all the technical innovations and details and how controlling directionalit... 
Oh no, there's metal in your records!
He would rather not talk about it? Ooooo! The mystery deepens. Very scary! 😳 
Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions?
One problem I can foresee is some folks who demand or at least encourage are non technical. You cannot explain things that are technical to non technical people. Period. The issue is they think they know what the word technical means but they don’... 
Phil Collins Remasters
I heard through the grapevine Phil Collins is back in the stu-stu-studio. 
Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions?
Gosh, whatever happened to good old (1) psychology, (2) evolutionary biology, and (3) the study of sensory perception: philosophical, subconscious and physiological. Maybe add (4) flaws inherent in testing procedures. 😛 
Turntable sounds so much better when...
It reduces stress/pressure to slightly loosen screws.  
Oh no, there's metal in your records!
Not to mention CDs.  I didn’t realize the metal layer was steel or some other magnetic metal. 🤠 
New Tweak --- Its Fantastic
You don’t say? 😳 That’s very observant of you. 🤠 
why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable
I’m enjoying a system has virtually no cables or power cords, not so much for the cost issue but the distortion and noise issue. Once you eliminate all the power cords, interconnects, speaker cables and fuses you realize how much distortion and no... 
Anyone Using Crystals?
Generally speaking crystals are not conductive. That is not to say that some crystals, not all, exhibit electrical properties such as the Pyroelectric Effect or Peizoelectric Effect. Most, not all places where crystals are effective in audio syste... 
Recommendations for headphones under $400?
To anyone using Grado SR type or the similar looking Sennheisers or really any headphones that employ foam ear pads, like say, Sennheiser 600s, what I found out recently was that foam pads are very messed. The sound is much much better simply taki... 
Bybee Active Room Neutralizers
Not only is nanotechnology revolutionizing our hobby but quantum mechanics is, too. And it’s actually nothing new. One need look no further than Silver Rainbow Foil, The Super Intelligent Chip and it’s sharp as a tack progenitor The Intelligent Ch...