jdane
Responses from jdane
| The value of embellishment? That listening rom looks like an over-priced dorm room, with the leather of no more aesthetic appeal than a pleathor hat 'tossed carelessly' on the table. Someone please explain for me the garden gnomes. Maybe this is a high-end bass conditione... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Tacitus (I think) says the Germanic tribes used to make decisions: (1) at night when they were all sh*t-faced, and (2) in the morning when they were sober. They only followed their own counsel if the decision was the same in both cases. | |
| and 30 min later.... Yeah, that pretty much brought back two decades worth of humiliation, embarrassment, and chagrin over various thoughts, feelings, and actions characteristic of adolescent life! (I didn't follow it through the 70s, when popular music blessedly be... | |
| REALLY vintage! Put a $300 fuse in that puppy, and the sound should be great! | |
| Stuck point! I'm guessing that room doesn't have a window? I run tube amps all the time. One in my small bedroom that I fall asleep to and stays on all night. The other in my basic 'crappy-apartment-8ft.-ceiling' living room. Amp heat is inconsequential c... | |
| OK, so I have to ask. Is this real, or is this a joke? dill1,571 posts08-20-2021 8:24am" Actually, for most of us, the analogy is spot on."Again, you are making an assumption."Yeah, you're right. The enthusiastic fit apparently got the better of me. For MOST OF US, Read: MANY OF US. I'm guessing ... | |
| OK, so I have to ask. Is this real, or is this a joke? You going for a ride in a car missing one front wheel? Think it might be dangerous? But, you are an idiot for never trying it first."Your pathetic analogy is absurd and completely non pertinent to the topic … as is your presence on this forum. If ... | |
| New cables - To judge now or after burn in period? 600 hours for your ears to adjust to the new equipment?As often noted, the break-in period is one hour longer than the 'warranty'. | |
| CD Player Recommendations… " nothing good can be bought for 1000 ... money wasted ... "In audio as in life I suppose. Cars, hookers, fancy meals, Lakers' tickets, concerts ... | |
| Premature gear defenestrations I think I've only defenestrated one piece: an old boom box/recorder (a Toshiba I believe) that was fantastic; one day, it seemed to develop a random CLICK that I could not trace. Within seconds of baseball-batting the thing over a chair-leg, I d... | |
| THE IRS HAS TAKEN MY TRANSACTIONS VIA PAYPAL AND IDENTIFIED THEM AS TAXABLE INCOME Not sure of your point. Did you make money buying and selling equipment here and on Audiomart? If so, it's income. You don't have to fight the IRS; just tell them the truth, pay up, and move on. They'll be very accommodating. ( If you 'lost' ... | |
| Why the cost increase? You're lucky. The last 2x4 I saw here was $12.50. Were you aware that there was a pandemic? And not all those you apparently consider flunkies (loggers, saw-mill operators, truck-drivers) were able to work full-time? Or that others, like you... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality CDs for me. I wouldn't know from streaming if it bit me in the butt. But even on my modest system, the best sound I ever had was digitally remastered LPs. But even though I've given away most of my LPs and 100s of CDs, I still have the collecto... | |
| New to Integrated stereo tube amps Ah, half-way through this I was thinking what a wonderfully genial, civil, and actually quite uplifting discussion! Although I am not in anyone's league here, I actually began to feel nostalgic and emotional for the sound of the last 6L6's I had-... | |
| Noise floors The neighborhood had a power outage two days ago. The silence was deafening. FrankOthers have said the same thing. My view is you don't get many power outages! I live in an area where they are common, and I assure you, after five minutes, every ... |