hickamore
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| How to prevent visitors from touching your system Only trouble I have had is people thinking the premium-finish floorstander nearest the entry door is a bar table for their drinks. The solution was directing traffic quickly away from the audio equipment wall. Visitors tend to be intimidated or in... | |
| Stephen Stills @roxy54 @bigtwin And "Powderfinger." Look out, mama, there’s a white boat comin’ up the river With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail I think you’d better call John ’cause it don't look like they’re here to deliver (pause) the mai... | |
| Stephen Stills "Yes, Neil has produced a lot of music, but quite a bit of it has been sub-par too." The only reasonable way of comparing songwriters is best-to-best. Say, best 10 vs. best 10 (even Dylan wrote some crap, you know). But this gets tricky, because ... | |
| How rare is an audiophile I personally know one aspiring audiophile who can afford anything and is ready for an system upgrade; have met a radio engineer who admired my system and wished for something equivalent; and today learned that my cousin's son is a music blogger. S... | |
| How does one pick in this situation? Wanted to see @labguy's system to understand the discussion, but the link sends me elsewhere. Just a bad link, or do I need some higher level of membership? I have certainly viewed many other systems in the past (e.g., who could forget MC's cable ... | |
| millercarbon Once upon a time I wrote a post in MC's defense which he quickly honored as "Post Of The Year" and reprinted in full. Few months later, he delivered one of those insanely paranoid political rants that has no business here (or in any half-serious ... | |
| Mystery Of Red Plating Support your local electronics man. Surely would if there were one. Fifty years ago there were three crackerjack electronics repair nerds in a town of 6,000. Today, 12,00 people, zero repair guys. | |
| Tim Bachman of BTO passed at 71 @audioman58 "Randy Bachman was he main talent" True, but the one immortal cut is "Blue Collar," written and performed by Charles Turner, with an extraordinary jazz guitar break from Bachman. Otherwise, calling the President a "senile pervert" ... | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. @ronboco @soix Private Equity doesn't give a f****** s*** about Brand Equity -- preserving it, that is. They will fake a savior pose, as they always do, while draining everything for asset value. What wealthy, generous, public-spirited, devoted a... | |
| Audio Research in Receivership. As we know from Dutch tulips to the U.S. stock market to bank runs, consumer expectation tends to outrun economic reality. I'm hearing signs of "two channel audio paradigm" panic. In this environment, how sensible is it to hoard one's pennies for ... | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? +1 @ghdprentice. The listener needs a sonic standard of reference, however this might be described in words. I share the "recreate the live event" standard. Just finding this much easier to achieve via LP than streaming (the quest continues). | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? "Seeking to reproduce the sound of real instruments in a real space . . . might be possible to achieve with chamber music (string quartets, etc.) but many people listen to jazz and rock." Given the large listening space @tomcy6, realism should a... | |
| MQA Declares Bankruptcy Someone here once described MQA as a stopgap solution to a temporary problem that had served its purpose and needed to die. What has changed besides the company's finances? To my ears it was always simply unlistenable. | |
| The best part about MQA bankruptcy.. Unlistenable. The only surprising thing is that it lasted so long. | |
| un-becoming an audiophile OP: "I’m sure michelin star chefs face the same thing in their own right...can’t enoy or even eat the food unless it’s up to a certain standard." Actually, no. Top chefs get tired of fancy food and gather after hours at late-night joints with eth... |