larsman
Responses from larsman
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» @bolong - I've read them all, and 'Rant' is one of my very favorite books from Chuck. It was actually the first one I read... | |
| Susanna Hoffs + Travis Travis is a Scottish band who had a big hit back in the 90's with a song called 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?'.... | |
| Best Exercise To Improve Capability Of Handling Heavy Amps Go to Jay's audio channel on YouTube and ask him - HE should be able to tell you! | |
| Trojan Warning? @nonoise - for me, every time I went to the Forums, I'd get that warning message from my virus detector. | |
| A question about tube rolling Yep - bought a pair of Western Electric 300B tubes for my headphone amp to replace the Gold Lions, and they made it sound like an amp farther up the product line from the original, but there is nothing farther up the product line. At about $1200/p... | |
| Trojan Warning? That was happening to me on here a few weeks ago, but then it stopped. | |
| any members in Montana Did anybody run into any dental floss tycoons there? Dental toss flycoons? Pygmy ponies? Of course I'm referring to Frank Zappa's "Montana". | |
| Are Headphones Fit for Serious Music Listening? @musicaddict - I've got a 5-figure 2-channel system and am not short on funds, and I also have about $15K worth of headphone gear which I love just as much. Real quality headphones through quality headphone amps and DACs bear no resemblance to 'n... | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones @mulveling - while I've not personally heard them yet, the Empyrian 2's and the Elites are not supposed to be as dark/thick as the original Empyrians are. | |
| Do you listen to your music with your eyes open or closed or a combination of both? Both - it often depends on the music.... | |
| Who's winning? In my philosophy, the person who is totally enjoying an experience is 'winning' over somebody who is not. Might not even be 'winning' or 'losing', just 'different'. | |
| Hearing Aids The low/mid/high 'EQ' on my Jabras works fine for me; I usually don't need to touch them when listening on the 'music' program, but if I'm watching telly and want to hear the dialogue better, I just turn up the mids and highs a bit and that works ... | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning of 45 flexidiscs? I wouldn't test it out on something you don't mind sacrificing in case it turns out you can't clean flexidiscs in ultrasonic... | |
| More on XLR vs RCA considerations? Sometimes the output voltage is different between a SE and a balanced; I know it's that way with some DACs, like the Holo Audio May... For whatever reason, a lot of tube headphone amps tend to be SE only. | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? @jreiter - Styx opened for Marty Robbins??!!! That's inspired! Dang, somebody should start a thread about the most unlikely-billed shows they've ever gone to.. |