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Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
@stuartk No Christy my wife framed it that way. I know semantics but I do see it as both also. Okay break is over.   
Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
@curiousjim I try to sit for at least 2 hours in the evening and truly listen, not background noise, but spin up some LP's and fire up the tubes and really listen. Helps me to power down after spending the day fixing the world's problems, well at ... 
Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
@cey No she just has the misfortune of being married to me, a gear head, audiophile, engineer. So she is most definitely a casual observer, and the center of my universe along with our children.    I am deleting and doing over my post also as I w... 
Phono Stage_Skoll-by Schiit Audio
Very nice.  
300b lovers
My son lives in Japan and has worked and lived there for the last 4 years. ??    but any kind of immigration is nearly impossible. Visit, yes, but don’t stay. This is a demographic problem with a rapidly declining population and no effective gu... 
Whats playing on your system today?
     
Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
@mahgister it was all in good humor not a dig friend. 🙂  
Audiophilia: Is it the pursuit of audio excellence or just a desire to tinker.
@erik_squires I agree and get the same levels of satisfaction doing overhauls on old Cummings and Cat diesel engines for friends. I may get a kit from that fellow on youtube GR Research.  @roxy54 You have met my wife 😄 No you are 100% right and s... 
Blue Jeans Cable Iconoclast
@navyachts that was a snip it from their website, BJC/Iconoclast. I did work as a service engineer for Belden 20 years ago in wireline for the oilfield.   
ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS?
So I guess there is a tone to a couple of post here.   
ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS?
@roxy54  very well, all the best.  
ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS?
Easily offended, put out, delicate, emotional, wear it on their sleeves. @bpoletti Tone of a thread, as it happens were your two posts deleted? @roxy54 just asking, no offense.   
ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS?
I am very satisfied in the hobby, my system and sound. What bugs me are the manic street preachers and most of them are measurements crowd. Experience in application is worth more to me than a specification sheet, not demeaning a spec sheet it is... 
Finally arrived !!
Beauty is in the eye or the beholder. Bet it sounds nice.   
Blue Jeans Cable Iconoclast
No this is a pure Belden wire design. The cables are made by Belden and Blue Jeans is only terminating and marketing. This is not a BJ design. I did watch an interview of the chief engineer at Belden and the principle in this design, he now consul...