kahlenz
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| What is the best BNC Digital Cable under $4,000? I have heard $250,000 systems was scooped off the curb. If the data is identical at either side of the cable, there will be no sonic difference. Don’t waste your money unless it makes you feel happy! | |
| Classic Sub For A Reasonable Price It all depends on what you are looking for. For modern speakers being driven by appropriate electronics playing anything other than electronica, EDM, heavy bass rap, or serious pipe organ music, REL makes some great subs that typically integrate ... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? Horns, properly selected for the application and room, sound great. The ones I like, however, are too big for my room. I can get them to fit, but I only have one room in my house that I can use for whatever I want, and I do other things in there... | |
| "You cannot handle the truth" 1.5 hours a week. I posted about this on another thread ( https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/what-a-sad-world-we-now-live-in/post?postid=1752367#1752367 ).Of course, that is for those of us that work and have lives outside of audio. I think ... | |
| What a sad world we now live in....... "Teo-audio" apparently lacks the mental authority to understand how modern technology can enrich one's enjoyment of music. Rather than trying to come up with a unified theory of the end of the world, I might advise a subscription to Tidal and list... | |
| YOUR AUDIO JOURNEY COMPLETION! Well, first of all I'm not going to lug my system to an audio event to verify my purchasing acumen. I've been to those events, and opinions are all over the place (and the rooms mostly suck). I prefer to keep my listening non-competitive.I have ... | |
| "You cannot handle the truth" 70 hours is probably a years worth of listening for most of us. The guy probably just wants something new, or something that works better for his system, or he needs the money.I have been burned both buying and selling audio equipment. As far as... | |
| What a sad world we now live in....... A paper released last year ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3285436 ) determined that the average "free" time most working Americans have is around 2.5 hours per day. Here are some of the things I like to do (in their general... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music One of the posters correctly pointed out that Maggies are not electrostatic. They are actually planar magnetic, a different beast, but both planar magnetc and electrostatic speakers share certain characteristics such as high detail retrieval and ... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music I have owned many speakers over the years. Here is my general take:Horns: delicious, sweet sound with lots of dynamics. Huge and directional. Sound best when loud. Example Klipsch Heresys.Electrostatic: Detailed and resolving, very direction... | |
| Is There a Speaker for Me/Impossible Requirements? (budget: $2000) I have the Harbeth P3esr speakers. I bought them a few years ago as part of my "downsizing" project – a more compact hifi that didn't take up half the room for listening at sensible volume levels. I no longer feel a need to impress anybody but m... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! Spending $3k on outlets may be a reasonable expense for somebody that has speakers that cost $10k or more. Once you get to that level, $3k increase in the cost of speakers will likely be a marginal improvement. If, however, you have $2.5k speakers... | |
| Best solution to send digital files to my DAC Another thing to consider is streaming services. I use both Tidal hifi and Idagio. Most anything I want to listen to is available from those services, so the need to go out and buy music, either physical or downloaded, is greatly diminished. I ... | |
| Best solution to send digital files to my DAC I use a CD player, digital out to DAC. I also stream wirelessly from any Apple device to an Apple TV or an Airport Express. I also have a Chromecast Audio that works well.This works for me because I can't really hear any difference between 16/44... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! It's a shame these audio engineers are so stupid. To think they would invert the playback polarity and rip off billions of music listeners. Hmmph!Kevin Edward Collins the First, CA, BSLA, member of the Society of Late Night Audioholics |