mapman
Responses from mapman
| Those who seek to deny access to information There are no churches here. Preachers are obviously not in short supply. Just the facts ma’am…. | |
| Those who seek to deny access to information BTW I am not anti-tweak. My system is highly "tweaked" to get it to sound the way it does. Lots of sweat over the years and a significant $$$ investment. Just don’t beat me over the head if I am not on the same page as another on any specific topi... | |
| Those who seek to deny access to information When people attack others for challenging essentially vacant products, my shill alarm goes off. Vacant meaning very limited information available other than the advertised effect on the sound. These products can’t stand on their own so they need p... | |
| Audio nonsense Personal attacks are not a substitute for objective data but it seems it typically comes to that when products have very little information available to back them up other than someone tried it and it sounded good. Once one says that there often s... | |
| Audio nonsense Some people are interested in experiments and others less so. Any purchase is an experiment of sorts until after you hear it at home (and spend time to set up properly if possible). But experiments are a thing of science and science is based on fa... | |
| Audio nonsense I believe one must come to the realization that there is a lot of nonsense out there here as most anywhere in order to be able to sort through things meaningfully. Extreme positions either way never work. Like saying I hate negativity period or th... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @femoore12 Glad you liked that. Agree with your assessment. Dick Dale fan here too. | |
| Music that swings Try this | |
| Audio nonsense People like to play with Marvelous Toys. They go zip when they move and bop when they stop and whirr when they sit still. I’ll never know just what some are and I guess I never will. | |
| Decisive moments your your audio journey Joining Audiogon many moons ago. Things got real! | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Bach Concertos - Trevor Pinnock and English Concert. Great recording and performances. | |
| Do you trust your system? It never lets me down so I suppose I do. | |
| Roger Miller anyone? Loved him as a kid. Need to revisit. Some nice recordings for a nice hifi I suspect. | |
| About users with hidden agendas It’s easy to throw money at a problem to solve it. Much harder to do it on an every man’s budget. But @mahgister is right. A little knowledge can go a long way. | |
| About users with hidden agendas The march of technology forwards also seems to have a lot of steps where things get made cheaper. There will always be cheaper and more expensive products... it’s all based on technology and the technology always moves forward although certainl... |