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Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ?
asvjerry142 posts10-03-2016 12:09amgeoffkait, Absolutely. And then it was subject to the space it was in, how it was set within it, the materials within that space, the equipment combination....were there others in the room (audio show ’extravagan... 
Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?
czarivey3,278 posts10-03-2016 11:55amthey’re not part of signal path.The wall is not part of the signal path, either. Yet....The bus passing by is not part of the signal path, either. Yet.... 
Must speakers have certain volume to sound convincing ?
Your hearing is only as good as the best HiFi system you ever heard.  
Tinnitus remedy?
Actually coffee is at the very top of the food chain. If you don't drink coffee you can die. You can even go without water for several days. Not so with coffee. 
are digital recordings on vinyl any better than CD
Can anyone explain why digitally remastered cassettes sound so good? Take Kind of Blue for example. The digitally remastered cassette is powerful, dynamic and engaging, quite unlike many of Kind of Blue CD incarnations which can sound kind of blah... 
are digital recordings on vinyl any better than CD
Tape is a natural medium. It breathes. The cassettes I have of Heifetz violin concertos on RCA Living Stereo exceed their CD bretheren in terms of forcefulness, tone, detail and overall musicality. It actually sounds like a Guarneri and not someth... 
Tinnitus remedy?
tooblue119 posts09-29-2016 12:00pmCoffee/caffeine as a cause for tinnitus is very bad news for me, I likes my coffee too and have already cut back to half decaf but my drink of choice are black Russians so I need to just go lay down now.The good n... 
Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters?
Oleschool,Try it. You'll like it. It's what the pros use. 
Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters?
What ever happened to placing LPs between two sheets of glass in the over at 150 degrees for ten minutes?  Some experimentation with temperature and time might be advantageous. 
Equipment Rack
hifiman5@geoffkait My bad on the ebay listing instead of Audiogon. I just looked at the ad. again. Is the stand designed to support components within a certain range of mass? It looks like it could be applicable to supporting a large power regener... 
Equipment Rack
hifiman5@geoffkait I am not trying to be at all snarky here, but is that eBay posting a gag of some sort. The pic looked to show a nicely crafted product but the write-up sounded like a comedy bit followed up by the dismissive questions. This whol... 
Equipment Rack
Oleschool,And speaking of school, education is what’s left after you forgot eveything you learnt in school.cheers 
Equipment Rack
The link that works is posted below. Apparently a hyperlink CAN have too many http's in it.https://www.audiogon.com/listings/stands-machina-dynamica-bio-mikro-g-isolation-stand-2016-09-03-acc... 
New cutting edge cable tech!
One assumes the Graphene is added as one would add pepper to squid for seasoning. 
Turntable Platter Demagnetizing
Thanks for the exception. Now that I think about it a demagnetizer wouldn’t work on a steel/ferrous platter, anyway. Oh, well.