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Most achingly-beautiful music
Lucky young man! 
Most achingly-beautiful music
I must admit that the album by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway has touch me very much indeed... Then I think that you are right for his "uniqueness"...And I am not a fan of "soul" music tough, but genius is genius... My best to you... 
Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...
Thanks for your wise observation about synergy between components...But except for some electronical incompatible choices, assessible by measures comparison, which is your point, synergy are really only assesible at the end in an optimal electrica... 
Who else here is frugal?
Geoffkait ,I think you are right about the noise level...If someone dont care about the acoustical difference between headphones and speakers, this is the right track to travel...But an old guy as I am like the acoustical freedom of his speakers a... 
Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...
The only thing this audio hobby have teach me is that what we already owns is able to reach a potential sound quality unbeknownst to us, sometimes at very high level...Nevermind the price....The only thing the audio market advise us generally is t... 
Intimate Live Acoustic Recordings
Muddy Waters: album : Folk singer.Buy the new remastered version with bonus...Audiophile recording stuff...It is my only blues album, generally I dont like blues much, but some are really good to sing blues, Muddy Waters is a legend, this album is... 
Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?
I think that measurement has value for design, independent of listening tests... I think that listening tests have value for us independent of the measuring tests...I think that the correlation between measurement tests and listening tests is grea... 
Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money?
The best dac in the world, ratio price/ sound quality, the Starting Point Systems NOS dac, TDA 1543, with internal batteries...For 20 bucks on Ebay...If you dont want to buy the Denafrips Terminator it is the deal...It is completely minimalistic d... 
Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?
Perhaps the word " morons" was a bit too much...I dont like also ad hominem attack...I like to discuss opinions not insulting anybody...I say that to distance myself  to the use of the word "morons"...  
Moving cables around killed dynamics for days anyone else experience this?
alexbergerI will go in the same way as you, some walk their illusory and not very humble walks with sometimes vast amount of knowledge, but poor scientific judgement, too much faith and trust in apparatus and available theories and way less in the... 
Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...
I put a golden plate, not on the central electrical panel of my house in the basement, I had already 5 G.P. there, no, this time, I put it on an electrical breaker panel in the second floor of my house near my audio room... I had only lava beads o... 
Has anyone seen this...?
In some video this guy, Steve Guttenberg ,very amicable person, speak the truth about when we touch audio Heaven, and he says that it is when we cannot stop listen to the music....He was right on the spot...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OEOMIH... 
Who else here is frugal?
If frugality is a consequence of wise choices, this is good... If frugality is a goal I dont think so...What is good to cultivate is the art of wise choices, frugal or not....What is a wise choice for a passionate man does not always appear frugal... 
Who else here is frugal?
ivan_nosniborThanks for your kind and indulgent word for my rant...If I can add something, i truly respect all people, frugal or not, i hate only the word because the act appear to me, more often than not, like an obsession without love...And imag... 
Who else here is frugal?
When we speak about passion and hobbies the question makes not so much sense...Interesting question perhaps like many others possible questions...But am I frugal, in love, in music, in passion for books? No...Not at all, I am the contrary of fruga...