khughes
Responses from khughes
| My pet peeve: "revealing" speakers Review speak:Revealing = you will need ear plugsRuthlessly revealing = you will need ear plugs and AdvilNeeds careful system matching = you will need ear plugs, Advil, a tube amp, and a glass of Scotch LOL, truer audio words were never spoken ;-) | |
| Are manufacturer AC cables good enough? Electrons don’t move. For the umpteenth time! Yeah, right. Tell that to a CRT. And they move between orbitals all the time when sufficiently excited. And of course, every time you "look" at one, it's in a different location ;-) | |
| John Prine, singer, songwriter, legend - Dead at 73 from COVID-19 One of the best. My wife and I saw him twice last year, and were lucky to see him at least once a year in the prior 3 or 4. After the throat cancer, his voice was obviously not the same, but he took such obvious joy in performing that it was infec... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? @nonoise - Incite to an action, not to lawlessness or anger...poke the bear don't you know.KH | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? So--Why bother commenting ? You haven't tried it, don't want to try it--don't believe it--how is that helpful to the OP ? Who's handwaving now? @Wyoboy - I was commenting that with the recordings being the most important determiner of sound ... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? Note to self: there appears to be a growing schism between advanced audiophiles and the average Joe Blow in the street As I said, it's been a hoot. Pronouncements from high atop Mount Pretentious are always quite comical when viewed in the light... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? And in the end, there is no "tweak", nonsense or not (nonsense IME) that makes, or could conceivable make, a calculable fraction of the difference that exists between a good recording and a bad/mediocre recording. A good performance or a bad/medio... | |
| The 5 stages of making a bad audio purchase based on their simplistic renderings - and their clamoring to be treated as "adults" suggests that they aren’t. LOL; while, sadly, superciliousness is lost as a word in common usage, good to see you haven't lost yours Curtis. | |
| Beware: New (at least to me) scam being run on Audiogon members Maybe I'm missing something here, but IF this was legit, why wouldn't the "seller" have contacted the OP via USAM instead of creating a new acct here to do so? May have been legit, but for the most part if it smells fishy, it's a fish. | |
| Is Meridian dead as a product company? You could check with Stereo Design in San Diego. They've been a Meridian dealer forever. I've used nothing but Meridian amps for over 25 years, and love them. I used 557's for most of that time but both eventually failed the same way and could not... | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl Clearly, the OP and many others in this (and the zillion identical) threads, conflate *preference* with *fact*. Both mediums can sound great, with recording and mastering having the greatest impact IME. In the end, though, when *you* think the vi... |