jssmith
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| Would you donate a dollar to have these Members Review a Product? I can count on half a hand the number of people whose subjective opinion I would pay the least bit of attention to. And neither of those are on this forum. | |
| So What Is Real? mahlman OP170 posts01-26-2020 4:59pm if being a professional listener is the only way to accurately judge cables how do you do this? Harman has a course called How To Listen ( http://harmanhowtolisten.blogspot.com/ ). If media-connected audiophil... | |
| WD-40 for electronics Every professional restorer I've ever talked to uses DeoxIT. | |
| Streaming + DAC questions. Please help this noob! Don't go down the rabbit hole. Get the $99 Schiit. You won't be able to tell the difference. Blind tests have proven this over and over again. And any streaming service 320kbps or better will do. | |
| How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog? About $25. | |
| Why discussions generate into personal affronts... It's the nature of subjective disagreements. They are by nature different and inaccurate because humans are different and inaccurate - and passionate about subjective beliefs that are important to them. The solution is to discover objective answer... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl I dislike:snap, crackle, pop, hissthe inconvenience of the manual processspace hogsthe expensethe degradation I like:nothing about themHaving started my "audiophile" hobby when there was nothing serious but vinyl, I just don't get the vinyl nosta... | |
| Do you guys like Adele's music? No. Especially after she butchered Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me. | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? prof08-25-2019 3:36pmTo me, LPs and CDs are like ANALOG PHONES and FILM CAMERAS...JUST OUTDATED.....Turntables have an aesthetic, tactile and engineering appeal to many of us that no CD player or iphone app can replicate. I guess that’s what I do... | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? Yep. The record collection went in 1991. Don't miss the snap, crackle, pop, and like the space savings. Still have the TT (NAD w/Shure V15 Type V) because I was too lazy to dig it out of storage to see if it was worth anything. Next move it'll go.... | |
| (Brutally) Honest Audio Reviews No speaker measurements. I'll pass. | |
| What was your first big eye opener with regard to audio? My first blind amp test. Saved me a lot of money over the years. | |
| What Sonically is the Difference between a $1,500 CD Player and a $10K-$25K One? There's no difference between a $50 and $5,000 one, except for the fancier box. | |
| Metal cabinet speakers My Paradigm S1 is metal. | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? I agree with everything prof1 said. These things have been physically measured. The changes that occur are quick and inaudible. It's listener break-in. |