hartf36
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| User Error Disaster I've got an EX442 Sonata that is long in the tooth, but I simply love it. I expect I'll do the same as you when it starts going: fix it. John Hillig (Musical Concepts) modded the Hafler DH220 I've got in my office, so I expect I'd send my B&... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" My 1993 B&K EX442 Sonata (350 wpc/4 ohms) puts me right in the studio whenever I listen to "Kind of Blue". It's pairing with my MMGs (out 3' from the wall) gives me an excellent soundstage in both width and depth. | |
| So done with audiophile fuses I switched from plain glass fuses to ceramic and did detect a noticeable difference. Not earth-shattering, but noticeable. My fuse experiment ended there. Until I took the fuses out of my Maggies and replaced them with like-sized sections of si... | |
| How loud are you typically listening? If you're exposed to 85 dB on an 8-hour time-weighted average at work, your employer has to get you a baseline audiogram, have a hearing conservation program, get you an annual hearing test, and make hearing protection available to you. At a 90 d... | |
| Stirring Up Trouble Any two given people (take your pick) are as likely to hear something - anything - exactly the same as they are to have the same fingerprints. | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Ian Dury and the Blockheads "New Boots and Panties": one of punk's cutting edge figures with a talented band that can actually play some musical punk.The Tubes "What Do You Want From Live": highly underrated musicians playing some great, fun par... | |
| Combining 2 channel audio and home theatre Having said that, unless you get really lucky, you're probably not going to do that for $700. Agreed | |
| Combining 2 channel audio and home theatre I was in a similar situation, wanting to double-duty my audio system for 2-channel listening and H/T. I also have a Denon AVR (X-4000). Because my main speakers are Magnepan MMGs that require more power than the Denon has to adequately drive them,... | |
| Maggies to Tekton? I had considered the Spatial OB lineup before, but read several commenters who suggested that, in their opinion, there wasn’t all that much difference between the Maggies and Spatials. Others, like gkr7007, thought it was an acceptable trade. Howe... | |
| Audio tax write-off Another important consideration:The home office tax write-off is not available to employees of companies. If you're an independent contractor, gig worker or the business owner, you're good to go.If you're just an "employee" of someone else who re... | |
| Maggies to Tekton? I’m somewhat in the same boat (minus the divorce......been there, done that years ago).My family room is smallish and having my MMGs three feet off the wall out into the room (about 7’ apart) really takes up a large amount of space where little ex... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? If your standards are "very vague"..............how do you know they're "extremely high"?If this reported self-evaluation is sincere, you sound like an excellent candidate for professional assistance to help you shed any extreme asshattery once an... | |
| What other hobby... Try settling on that "perfect" set of guitar strings. Then do it for six guitars. For those of you with more than six? My sincerest condolences. | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? It sounds like you went from a ceramic fuse to a glass one. I’m not one for the exotic audiophile fuses, but I did swap out the glass fuses in my B&K EX-442 Sonata for everyday, "standard" ceramic fuses just to see for myself if I could detect... | |
| ls FM radio even listenable any more? ........you mean FM radio is still around? |