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| Devore Nines and amp match Thanks Ralph. Much of my understanding about tube / speaker matching is from what you’ve written here. Much appreciated. I’ve made one expensive mistake already and I want to avoid another. I’ve also read about the somewhat high output impedance w... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Important note on the €2000 Maxiimus P16... be sure to buy the right one:“ Note: if your home has 3 phase electricity, only one of these will be harmonised by the P16. In case you would like full harmonisation, the MAXiiMUS P40 is the right choic... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? When I wrote the OP, I thought that some of the stuff being peddled these days is SO outlandish that there would be a general consensus, and we could share some examples. Oops. It wasn’t a conspiracy to divide people into “two camps” (and then d... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Frank,A $5k power conditioner to improve the picture of a rear projection TV?Does this mean that I could breath new life into my Philco fridge, Zenith radio (6 transistors), and Admiral TV (color) with one of these babies?Would that be $5,000 each... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Frank,If you look at the first comment to the OP, it makes the very same point as yours. So here we are, 144 comments later, back to where we started. Full circle, full stop. j | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Or...you could start your own, more “positive” thread. That would pretty much be an entirely different topic, no? I’ve explained my post ad nauseam on this thread! | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Yep all good! 😊 | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Lalitk,After all of the great examples of absurd tweaks in this chain, I notice you haven’t budged on your position one iota...which appears to be, don’t dare express skepticism about a $4,800 record clamp made of rare wood from the swamps of Afri... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? That one belongs to millercarbon, Google it it’s easy to find. Worth a few minutes because it’s truly a beaut! | |
| Your vote: Most Useless Audio Adjective Referring to speakers as "polite". | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? So you see frustration here somewhere? Yet another bummer comment.You are right about pigeons though... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? I am hoping that this will be a thread we can have some fun with, but I'll clarify a bit. What got me thinking about this is that I was at one of the retailers I frequent, where I’ve spent quite a bit recently. He actually asked me to buy one of t... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Teknikk7...there’s a place in Lake Forest I found if OC is ok. Classic group of old timers surround by vintage tube gear, amps, radios etc. Used them once but only to replace preamp volume. Contact me direct if you want details. | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music On a great system, crappy recordings should sound like crap. If they sound good, it’s not a great (accurate) system. To get a real handle on the nuances of your system (good and bad), use some recordings that you feel are excellent and use them to... | |
| Audio Doctor goes to Axpona observations so far +1 Piega. I heard these at the Irvine show last year. Anyone that’s into classical should audition these (if you can find them). |