knotscott
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| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? Whether we like it or not, components with a physical suspension like speakers and styli simply need playing time to loosen up and perform optimally as expected. I’ve witnessed it repeatedly with new woofers. Many electronic components benefit fro... | |
| BEST SOUNDING SYSTEM FOR THE LEAST AMOUNT OF $$$$ My system is what I consider outstanding poor man’s high end, but it’s exactly what I like to hear and what I think it should sound like, so depending on what you like...YMMV. It’s important to please your own ears. I’m all about clarity, natural ... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? I’m a quality technician for a blood analyzer company. My audio budget has always been fairly modest, but I’m very proud of what I consider to be a very respectable poor man’s high end system for the grand total of $2300 over 30 year span (not cou... | |
| Audio Technica AT-LP120-XUSB Review Thank you for this review. As someone who has owned both cheap and expensive turntables, I always enjoy budget gear that performs well. I have been forced to re-evaluate my HiFi budget going forward and have my eye on the AT-LP120X with AT-VM95M... | |
| Looking for a speaker cable with a relaxed sound. +2, noromance.Silver cables tend to be bright. Get some decent copper cables, and you should at least be headed in the right direction. If they still sound a bit forward, I'd consider adding an absorbent ring around the tweeter, like felt and de... | |
| Bi-Amping with one amp? "Thanks guys. The question was mostly out of curiosity. Not sure if I will actually try this but it is good to know." Even though the amp you wanted to bi-amp with is gone, it's still worth pursuing at some point in the future. There are some ve... | |
| Long Speaker Wires/Short Interconnects or Long Interconnects/Short Speaker Wires Thanks to all. I'm going with status quo for the time being. The YouTube video offers a compelling argument for longer interconnects and shorter cables, but until a good time arises to dismantle the system, it's going to stay as is. The next ti... | |
| Need copper speaker cable recommendations $300 ish Over the years I’ve owned the basic Monster/Marshall Soundrunner type cables, Belden, Cardas, and Kimber. The Kimber Kable had sounded great on my system, but when I moved I needed much longer cables. I made my own from Monoprice OFC 12awg 4-condu... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? Creating music and music reproduction are very different endeavors with very different criteria for the materials used to accomplish them. Instruments can have a distinct and desirable sonic signature. Hi-fi music reproduction should have as littl... | |
| Audio Technica AT-LP120-XUSB Review Most of the VM95 series tracks at 1.8 to 2.2 gms. Their DJ stylus tracks 2-4 grams. | |
| Good entry level cables I switched to the Monoprice 12 awg OFC PVC coated CL-2 wire last winter. Available in 2 or 4 conductor. It sounds wonderful in my system.....as good as any of several I’ve tried over the last 30 years, and is very affordable. No marketing BS, just... | |
| Long Speaker Wires/Short Interconnects or Long Interconnects/Short Speaker Wires Thanks. All inputs/outputs are RCA. | |
| Musings from old school on High Fidelity " Then,,,I guess you take issues with most of my post above I think this hooby is not all biased opinions,,,forensics is involved, a good hunch,,a fair listening, ,,where luck has no place.research research researchHigh fidelity ain;’t gonna drop ... | |
| Musings from old school on High Fidelity ...One thing JGH certainly was right about, and deserves much credit for, is saying measurements don’t tell the whole story. Measurements are tools. What we build with the tools, that is up to us listeners. A great reminder that there are three s... | |
| Newbie to the awesome audiophile world My recommendation is to buy what you love the sound of. It’s like picking a favorite color....it’s unique to your tastes, and there’s no wrong way to do it. As a rule of thumb, speakers tend to influence the sound the most, but the more revealing ... |