hilde45
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| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? @cleeds Thanks for posting that paper! I myself have heard differences. But for those who tell me it’s snake oil, I had a thought. If I believe them and listen again and then -- voila! -- hear no differences, isn’t it in my self-interest to cut my... | |
| Considerations prior to your next purchase So the OP is suggesting paying prepubescent girls to come 'listen to his stereo'. I'll pass.@dadork So, you're a prepubescent girl? Welcome. | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? One need only look around us to know that the phrase "hysterical cult" could never apply to people with preferences about speakers. We have hysteria, and we have cults, and they ain't talking about this. | |
| Tube Preamp - What to buy? Recently there was for sale, used, a Quicksilver Linestage for $875 and a Belles SA-100 mono block pair for $1900. That would have been an incredible deal. The Belles is gone, but the Linestage might still be out there. That leaves you a reasonabl... | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! A while back, I suggested that Audiogon have a FAQ category so that newbies could be directed there to thoughtful and well composed replies rather than get some of the short or snarky answers to their newbie questions, the kinds of answers being l... | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! I was a newbie about 18 months ago, and I would have appreciated your post back then. One reason I stuck it out on the forum was that there was a good mixture of sound advice which took a sympathetic approach. By sorting out who the jokers were an... | |
| Considerations prior to your next purchase Interestingly, it turns out that while we lose the ability to hear high frequency sine waves with age, there is little if any deterioration in our ability to hear these ultrasonic frequencies.MC, this is an incredibly interesting fact. I’m current... | |
| Considerations prior to your next purchase Proposal rejected. Hearing is part ear, part brain/mind. Those with weak minds are bad at hearing, seeing, speaking, writing, or formulating reasonable proposals. | |
| Magico A1 vs KEF Reference 1 (META) vs KEF LS50 + KEF KC62 "Jump on MAGICO A3s ASAP!!!" -- because....why? Because you own it? Give some reasons once in a while!!!! | |
| Power Consider running a dedicated line, too. That’s not expensive, depending on where your panel/speakers are. | |
| What do you have on order RIGHT NOW. @elliottbnewcombjr AHA! that was made in jest. I said,Doing an 11.1 home theater setup with some MBL speakers. Guy on Craigslist will drop off between 9-11 am tomorrow.The notion of an 11.1 home theater system with MBL speakers was the joke and t... | |
| Power This was suggested by Almarg on this forum.Total cost: $622Audience Adept Response aR2p power conditioner used, $326Wiremold UL210BC Power Strip (w/tax, shipping) new, 91.63Porter Port Audiophile electrical outlet audiogon, new, 44.30Shunyata Veno... | |
| What do you have on order RIGHT NOW. @elliottbnewcombjr I wasn't getting an 11.1 HT system! I think you've confused me with someone else. | |
| Transport needed ! https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649751010-cambridge-audio-cxc-v1-cd-transport/ | |
| Schiit Lokius anyone? If this trend keeps up they might actually put some controls back on the preamps/integrateds themselves. Quelle horreur! |