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| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? As time passes, sometimes things change dramatically and you don't even think about it. Back in the Stone Age, we didn't have the Internet, email, and nobody carried a cell phone. Audiomart was a "magazine", not a website. I say magazine generous... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? I had a turning point in 1968 when I heard my first pair of KLH-9's at a house in the West Portal neighborhood of San Francisco. A teenager at the time, I had no idea such things existed. Reading Audio, Stereo Review, and such had not really prepa... | |
| Does Age Matter? No. | |
| Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned? I remember putting a nickle on top of the tonearm head shell and getting much better sound. Total cost? You guessed it. | |
| is this the greatest live band of all time? Did I actually say Jimmy Page screaming off key? That should have been Robert Plant screaming off key at the wrong times. Jimmy Page every once in a while would get a good run started, we would get some hope, and then the band would descend back i... | |
| is this the greatest live band of all time? In person the Tubes in their heyday were quite something.Now a lot of how we perceive a show does depend on us, not on the show itself. I remember seeing Todd Rungren once and being bored out of my mind. Man he was sleepy time. The crowd loved it ... | |
| Why don’t tube amps sound like tubes anymore? Oh what a bunch of utter hogwash.What is tube sound exactly? I've built hundreds of tube amps from scratch and I couldn't tell you what "Tube sound" is. You can make tube amps that sound great or terrible. You can make them hard and brittle or lus... | |
| Any reason not to place stand mounted speakers upside down? Try it with the stands upside down. | |
| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) While I'm more in the Bowmore camp than Ardbeg, they're not world's apart at all. Very cool. | |
| Amp newbie? Adcom GFA-555 vs Mcintosh 2505 The receiver should be fine with the Maggies. While Maggies do like a lot of power, those are small ones. You should be okay there.Now when you go off the deep end for bigger ones, which you will, it's nice to have preamp outs on the receiver so y... | |
| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) I greatly prefer a good single malt, hopefully an isle of Islay, to Welch's and ethanol.At least I think I do. I've never tried the latter. | |
| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) Old iron IS better than new iron. Not that it specs better or anything like that, you just can get old iron for a lot less than new iron and almost without exception transformers are well made. That's the most expensive part of an amp and manufact... | |
| Budget Tube Amp (newbie) Don't overthink it. Look for something that you can sell for about what you pay. Don't consider anything glittery and new that will drop in value overnight. Regardless of what you hear on these forums, sound quality has not had the quantum jump th... | |
| Saxaphone vs. Trumpet...Which do you prefer? Accordion or bagpipes, which way to go? | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? I always thought that the 15 ohm LS3/5A was way overrated. Same for the original Quad ESL. I know, that goes against HiFi canon but I've had both for extended periods, years actually, and they just didn't do it.Underrated, well the Acoustat 2+2 wa... |