jacksky
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| Lemons are an actual thing in high-end audio I took the initial responses as mostly negative aimed at the OP for no good reason. Why address whether he named the manufacturer or not. Or whether his definition of lemon stands up to yours. Or whether he hooked it up correctly.the main point he... | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? If I recall...Richard Hardesty’s white papers claimed that first reflections from side walls are the most harming due to confusing the brain as far as timing.reflections off the floor result in excessive brightness and reflections off the ceiling ... | |
| Why the truth is not in them ?? Zeroing back to opening post, imagine you go to a market and one stall has a guy offering something you want for $100. You tell him how about $50? He says “sure, done deal”.you walk to the next stall do the same thing and the vendor goes berserk c... | |
| Thiel Owners I have a pair of shipping crates for CS5, free to anyone who can pick them up in central NJ 07726.they are pretty big, I’d say almost 6ft high. I could barely fit them in my SUV.contact me here or PM. | |
| In Defense of Audiophiles, Bose, Pass, Toole and Science in basketball, one thing I can tell you is that stats are very deceiving.just listen to announcers give credit to players that do things that never show up on stat sheet. however, measuring human players performance is vastly different than measu... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world Memorable album was a story in itself. Went to the original Crazy Eddie store on Kings Highway and got a pair of Martin speakers to upgrade my all in one tuner/turntable/amp unit. Picked up ELP’s Tarkus and couldn’t help but get mesmerized. Partly... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Perhaps only slightly related to AI but enlightening to me, I was at an audio meet when someone mentioned he worked at a major communications company that performed an experiment. They created a machine to run wild with AI software, left to its ow... | |
| The Forest for the Trees When I was a kid in the late 60’s all my music came thru a hand held transistor radio. Even then I connected emotionally with certain top 100 AM radio station hits. occasionally I would hear someone else’s radio and recognized it sounded better... | |
| Audio discounts during Coronavirus A local dealer is taking an interesting marketing approach.they are advertising system that work outdoors in backyards. Everything from hidef TVs, amps, waterproof speakers, etc.they are anticipating as we go from spring to summer more people will... | |
| OMG, just removed my speaker grills and the sound just opened up to a new level! Gave it a try and listened in the nude. At first deep bass passages made my chest hairs oscillate and it felt strange. Then I wondered is the the deep soundstage I’ve been missing all this time? | |
| Mmmm Crow tastes good... @wyoboy: what's the difference between the aerial 7T and the 7B., If you don't mind. | |
| Audio Troy Capital Audio Fest the good, the bad and the ugly! @glupson, the lady handing out cookies was mrs Katz, refreshing to see a family affair at the show. She baked the cookies herself, while Mr Katz builds.In general, the limitations of the rooms made it impossible in many cases to discern what the s... | |
| The 5 stages of making a bad audio purchase To EBM; I too have only made great purchases....that includes 5 sets of speakers, 3 receivers, 2 complete home theater systems and 2 amps sitting in my basement while 3 sets of speakers are on my main listening room rotation. They were such great ... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom/jafant,is there a code to the different models names... i.e. 1.6 was named as such for the 1.6 cm interior volume.....or 3.5 stands for 3 series (like BMW) and 5 stands for number of drivers including passive radiators? | |
| Most annoying song, period. Gotta love this thread and jump on.Call me crazy but Eddie murphy's Roxanne in the movie 48 hours when he's in jail singing with headphones on is a better version than the Police.And a warning to y'all, do NOT put Kung Fu Fighting on this list, t... |