mahlman
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| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Every once in a while I like to poke fun at pretentious "Audiophiles" that have very long noses they look down as they regard the unwashed that think mere money does not equate with discerning taste. I just love $60,000 dollar cables so much and t... | |
| Advice please. My suggestion to you is go listen to whatever these guys try to convince you is best before you buy. If you cant listen to set first then move on down the line. I have had great luck with used Klipsch speakers and while they might require recappi... | |
| Are current audio cable designs superior to 1980s designs? I think if you get a cable cooker and then cryogenically freeze them as a secondary operation those old cable will be just fine. Seriuosly now copper is copper and there is a lot of money wasted on it that could be far better spent elsewhere i... | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? Great comment Mijostyn. Minus the records and Porches I agree with the rest. Buying bragging rights is not the same as really knowing what is going on and how to make things better. | |
| Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles? Well I think it is beyond doubt that unless you have a pretentious stack of gear with price tags attached that must include a turntable and reel to reel and I would add correct cabling you are most definitely NOT an audiophile. So the answer is NO | |
| Mundorf Silver Caps " If you can’t tell the difference between a Dayton 1% and a TRT Teflon 1%. I understand..I can. They are night and day. Some folks can’t tell the difference, because they actually don’t have the chops. " Well it is more than that. I believe th... | |
| Speaker cable arrows??? I just love Audiogon. In my emails there is occasionally a thread I can’t resist. This one is a perfect example and it amazes me that someone would ask this and then others might entertain it as a serious topic. It’s kind of like driving down the ... | |
| Are you a special snowflake? So millercarbon I am curious to know which specific thread got you going? Sounds like it would be an entertaining read so what one was it? | |
| For efficient speakers, how much difference does an amp really make? " My system is very happy at low to medium volume levels. The sound is open and clear and produced seemingly without effort. It ramps up nicely until you get to a place where things start to change. The open sound starts to close up a bit and t... | |
| Mundorf Silver Caps OP if you could duplicate any nuance or tone or airy ethereal sound you wanted without breaking the bank or limiting yourself to one single system would you consider it? Sounds like you are throwing a ton of money at something hoping what you read... | |
| Why the woofer moves badly when playing certain LPs Have you checked to see how low your woofer is supposed to go before your excursion is too much? | |
| Mundorf Silver Caps " I've always found the Mundorf Supreme's over saturated with color. Not sibilant, but cool, and colorful. I prefer Clarity CMR for these reasons. I find them less euphonic and more natural, in the sense of sounding more like what I hear in pers... | |
| Mundorf Silver Caps I use a B&K 885 inductance and capacitance meter to measure components as I go. Personally I just use Dayton 1% precision or Audyn's (not the expensive ones) and sometimes Sonicaps because they have values I need. If they measure the same I fi... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers " My recommendation, also to address the possible coherency issues pointed out above, would be to go all-horn from an arena in sound reproduction not commonly thought of as "hifi doable," namely Danley Sound Labs Synergy horns paired with Danle... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers I would not be in such a hurry to do away with them. Recap those old crossovers as I assume they have capacitors on there. Those degrade over time and I have had many 20+ year old speakers which have shown real improvement after recapping. Make su... |