jjss49
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| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! @tcotruvo Trained Listeners were by far the most reliable. Next, a group of Audio Retailers. Professional Audio Reviewers were third, but with about one-fifth the reliability of the Trained Listeners. referring to your post, i am curious to k... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? yes - certainly - absolutely - without qualification essential aspect of creating a reasonable, credible facsimile of a real performance not all recordings have good soundstaging info... but when you have heard a proper setup playing material th... | |
| Shout out for Vlad @ Audio Mirror vlad is a prince... one of the nicest most sincere people in the business i have his 6c33c mono amps as well, love them, he upgraded them from the prior gen for me at a very reasonable cost, then i received one damaged from him in shipping, he th... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! a big part of being experienced in this hobby is understanding room interactions and how gear setup (most importantly the listening triangle and proximate room boundaries) affects how the sound is heard by the listener with a good understanding o... | |
| FAVORITE POWER CABLE under $100 (1M) it is usually best when the discussions here are about music and the gear that reproduces it | |
| A SHOCKING DISCOVERY ABOUT DIGITAL AUDIO Looks like Agon has jumped the troll shark. Time go away for awhile of find a new sight for intelligent conversation! this is overstating it, and not apt given the situation, imo you hang here for some time, read what is posted, reflect, and s... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! always get info, if possible, on a reviewers listening room -- it is important context to their review output the beloved herb reichert for instance... steve guttenberg has well documented herb’s apartment and the set up in his yt vids... it is b... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? hp was certainly a very flawed individual... but he (and jgh) added something significant to the discussion and assessment of high end gear art dudley was also one of my favorites... rip art | |
| Integrated amp recommendation for Maggie .7's i for one am a big fan of hegel - as amps for maggies they are superb for delivering the current and damping factor to get the best out of the speakers -- further, the hegels fully support the magnepan sonic ethos by not editorializing on the abso... | |
| How do you stop house guest from damaging your speakers? my solution is to have a dedicated listening room to which i keep the door closed when entertaining guests in prior homes without the listening room i would discreetly ask guests to wear pet shock collars | |
| FAVORITE POWER CABLE under $100 (1M) cullen, signal cable and pine tree audio all build excellent high value high performance cables i happily use | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? @bdp24 is spot on | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? All DACs are a trade off between detail, image size (height/width) and depth. to these parameters being traded off i would add quality tone/truth of timbre, prat, and (non sonically) build quality/ergonomics/feature set | |
| Best speakers around $130k? bill clinton deepak chopra malcolm gladwell bob kiyosaki ...but op's budget is kinda low | |
| A SHOCKING DISCOVERY ABOUT DIGITAL AUDIO ho ho ho... |