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| Did anyone else disconnect thier equipment due to the geomagnetic storms? «CMEs travel outward from the Sun at speeds ranging from slower than 250 kilometers per second (km/s) to as fast as near 3000 km/s. The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15-18 hours. Slower CMEs can take several days... | |
| Why even bother? Many people dont feel the moral duty pertaining to someone who sell something... For most "moral duty" as a concept had no more sense than biological sex, it is a free choice , no consequences for them... | |
| This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces Interesting for sure! Thanks ...😊 | |
| Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer! Let me say that we need electricity... I dont have anything to make my soup heating... And in winter here it is really cold at night ... I will pray for our grid to stay whole and working ... I remember very well the last time with a CME... 😊 ... | |
| Audiophile frame of mind I like buying gear pieces too... I will probably if i could afford it just by audiophile obsession...😁 ( But What active speakers i could pick to beat my actual heavily modified one? They costed me 100 bucks 12 years ago and i would probably be o... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados There is no best Brandenburg as there is no best Art of the fugue... But by far my prefered version is Hogwood ... but beware dont judge by the first movement ... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? Gear change are motivated by synergy before anything else... It takes me few minutes to decide to return back a TOP tube amplifier costing way more than my Old Sansui alpha a S.S. design. And the TOP tube amplifier i returned back is not a trash ... | |
| Solid state amp vs tube amps I use a tube preamplification to help my active speakers... It work... But if you think tube/s.s. make a difference and it does, acoustics control of the room had more impact than almost any upgrade improvement... Acoustics does not replace gear... | |
| Audiophile frame of mind Then generally "audiophile state of mind" is linked to the next upgrading gear cost... As illustrated by the OP statement... "acoustic state of mind" by contrast is motivated by real listening under control experience and experiments at no cost o... | |
| Audiophile frame of mind i remember when some mocked me few years ago after i called my grid of 100 tunable resonators : "mechanical equalizer" for system/room...😊 In my acoustic frame of mind i claimed that it was most powerful than many electronical equalizer ( will no... | |
| Audiophile frame of mind I just put a new resonator made of straws inside the one i made with a discarded long plastic tube i picked in a field walking to decompress the new beautiful sound a bit ...😊 If i had changed my dac for a costlier one i would add so much adjecti... | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. Too long list of names and titles without explanation are useless.. What people hope to do with that ? I gave four as asked with my emotional characterisation to incite curiosity... Do the same if you want to be read seriously ...😊 | |
| An ANSWER....of sorts...... Serendipity coupled to acoustics basic can make miracles! I just walked as every morning, i stumble on an empty 6 foot cylinder made of hard -plastic abandonned in a field... I entered in my dedicated acoustic corner ( near listening field with ... | |
| Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar? it is simple: anybody saying that wood choice make no difference between instruments contradict thousand of years of history of craftmanship and reveal he had no clue about what is the "timbre" concept in acoustic and his role in music ..😊 | |
| little big win I became an audiophile a potential unconscious one at 20 because i was under the supervision of my two friends for buying my gear ( Tannoy +Sugden), one married 15 years older than me who designed his own speakers box and his own friend and " ... |