gerryah930
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| Why are Ayon tube amps not mentioned very often? I do not know of an audio equipment company called "Acoustic Research", but I love my Audio Research monoblock amplifiers. You also left McIntosh off of the list, which dwarfs the marketplace for tube equipment in the U.S. If you like Ayon then en... | |
| The Placebo Effect Is any person on this thread a scientist/clinician who has actually conducted clinical trials in which the placebo arm impacted participants? Placebo effects:Can act on so-called "objective" clinical measurements;Do not only last 15 minutes - that... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? I do not want to hear about politics, religion, or sex on this forum - it is about being an audiophile, and frankly, this forum is contentious enough without injecting that junk into the conversation.From my point of view, although the demographic... | |
| Townshend Audio F1 Fractal Interconnects - Less is More! I have grown to respect what millercarbon says, because I have arrived at an audio system something like his is configured. I do not have Tekton speakers, just Wilson Sasha 2's. I do have SR Euphoria and Shunyata cables, but I only listen to CDs o... | |
| MQA is for chumps I have a great, MQA-enabled Esoteric K-01XD SACD/CD player.The MQA CDs that I own, from Hilary Hahn, Joni Mitchell (Blue), and Chick Corea (Return to Forever) are UHQCD-MQA 24 bit remasters and they sound better than the same CDs in SACD and Redbo... | |
| MQA actually tested I have the Esoteric K-01XD SACD player with MQA and the few UHQ-MQA CDs that I have sound incredibly good. But so do the XRCDs, HDCDs, SACDs, and CDs, etcetera.I do not stream because I live in rural Michigan and pay for data from satellite intern... | |
| Anyone using Luxman m900u with Audio Research Ref6 I had a system with an ARC Ref6SE preamplifier and a Luxman M900u amplifier, and now I have a Luxman CL1000 preamplifier and ARC 250SE monoblocks and it sounds much better. Driven by an Esoteric 01-XD SACD player, streamer (and a clock). Wilson Sa... | |
| Is it just me? I have bought several Porsche race cars and a Ruf Turbo without "looking under the hood." But there was provenance available on these vehicles, some of which were transported from thousands of miles away. | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion Humans vary tremendously in their ability to resolve musical details. It is not a bell shaped curve. No device can provide an absolutely accurate measure of what will work for all listeners. There is no single audio component solution, including c... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I haven't read the last 500 odd posts on this thread, in part, because I do not know who likes jazz and does not consider themselves an aficionado. But in any event, I'll throw a few recent ones out there in memory of the great Chick Corea, who ap... | |
| Luxman tonality Amateur astronomers perform tasks such as the discovery of new comets, planets and stars in the universe [1,2].Listening and measuring are not mutually incompatible tasks. I love the neutral sound of my Luxman CL1000 preamplifier with my ARC 250SE... | |
| Looking for my Final Pair!! Go to the Blue Note in NYC if you want live jazz. I highly recommend Wilson speakers - I have Sasha 2's, but I have heard all of them and the Sabrina 2 is great for a smaller room at its price point. Monitors are what recording and mixing engineer... | |
| WILSON AUDIO.....BIG NAME, BIG PRICE........ARE THEY THAT GOOD? My Sasha 2's sound nice with powerful ARC monoblocks. | |
| The Most "Analog" CD Player? The best that I have heard are:1. MSB Technologies: The Select Transport coupled with the Select DAC (too much $$$ for me);2. The new Esoteric K-01XD SACD/CD player with similar technology to (1) above, but cheaper ($23K), but not that cheap.I do ... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Eric Clapton's band in 1973 at JFK Stadium in Bridgeport, CT, My mom went with me - he was so drunk he could not stand up. |