kennyc
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| Vinyl Lovers I buy a lot from Discogs. I sort for price and condition. Then I look at seller ratings. Unless you can actually look at the media before purchasing, you’re taking a chance one way or another. I don’t expect 100% accurate, occasionally you may ge... | |
| What is the science behind audiophile fuses? Unless we dissect then do a chemical analysis, we’ll never know the secret sauce to blow correctly AND sound better. I suspect a lot of trial with listening scrutiny before the fuses were brought to market. With SR fuses, and much steeper priced Q... | |
| Power conditioners and power regeneration The quietest power seems to be by battery like the Stromtank | |
| Affordable SS that sound like Tubes SS that sounds like tubes: GaNFET amplifiers, Peachtree may be lowest priced, AGD, Atma-Sphere Class D, etc FirstWatt- low watt SS amps by amp guru Nelson Pass | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... Cables- a quagmire separating the wheat from the chaff. | |
| I have perfected my network for the nth time but before you do, share your relevant education and how many years of work experience you have with networks. Still prideful in your Ethernet knowledge trying to create a win scenario where you can feel emotionally better trying to make th... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? Thinking a bit further, if given multiple opinions, do you give the latest ones (in more recent memory) more weight? Obama was rumored to have this habit. | |
| How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions? 36-24-36 … good aesthetics… is there an “understood” metric equivalent? | |
| I have perfected my network for the nth time Feels like dealing with a hurt child. Prideful of knowledge about “x”. Goes on the forum talking about “y” to say their wrong because “x” is THE all encompassing answer, so everyone else on this forum, and by extension all other high-end audio rev... | |
| What Horn loaded speaker/ speaker system for $10k'ish and under I little more money but a ridiculous bargain is this used Volti Vittora. A definite step up from the La Scala. I’d buy them but I don’t have the room. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649998757-volti-vittora/ | |
| Power cable Zavfino OCC Silver Dart Graphene 4 years ago Audiobacon did a PC shootout: https://audiobacon.net/2019/08/17/27-audiophile-power-cables-reviewed/amp/ I purchased a few Kimber Kable PowerKord 10 Palladian PCs based on this shootout. | |
| Rant: PSA to builders, housewives, and general complaint My wife and I like the open concept kitchen to share in the room’s activities. OP- costly but you can move walls - seen it done on TV home improvement shows | |
| RIP Tom Jones It’s not unusual, Delilah, What’s new pussycat? What a strong unique voice. He will (someday) be missed :) | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps Like some have suggested, I highly suspect that the warm sound the OP is looking for is only available in lower powered tube amps. This will require an efficient speaker. In addition to my 89db neutral speaker running on a 300wpc neutral ss amp,... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It This seems like a discussion between a surround sound system vs 2 channel. Why, in 2023, would anyone voluntarily use only two speakers to recreate this illusion of a live performance in a large room? It simply sounds better. Usually, the soni... |