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| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time American Rock and roll?Gotta be Buddy Holly and the Crickets in every sense.Most American rock that followed may be "rock" but not "rock and roll". Rock and roll got old fast here. Then the British caught on and largely took over. Then basica... | |
| CD ripping M4A is lossy compression meaning some information used to create the music is lost in the interest of smaller file size.These may still sound fine or good enough but for best sound quality possible re-rip is needed to a lossless format.Compression... | |
| Review: Ohm Acoustics Walsh 5 Series 3 Speaker Lance those were the 100 series 3 drivers (8" drivers, one generation prior to current) on refurbed Walsh 2 cabinets. Somewhere between 1000 and 2000 models in the current line in terms of size and output. All models in the walsh line at any part... | |
| My most remarkable service experience ever. Ps audio stock is up in my mind. Nice to hear things like this. | |
| Upgrade my DAC or buy more weed? Well if you buy the DAC used and don’t overpay, you can always try and resell the loser. That's nice if you are really interested in hearing other DACs.The weed, well it pretty much goes up in smoke and that's the end.. :^)FWIW I’ve heard the EE D... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... In agreement on Savoy Brown/Kim Simmonds.Saw them in a small club (with great acoustics) about two years back and they did not disappoint.Jack The Toad is my favorite Savoy Brown album start to finish but many fun and enjoyable tracks from the ba... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Here's a subtle innovation not discussed yet:http://ohmspeakers.com/news/nasa-technology-comes-to-speakers-ferrofluid/Also of relevance:http://ohmspeakers.com/news/ten/John Strohbeen's posting on his companies website is one of the best places to ... | |
| Any love for Jolida integrates? Jolida is on my list of tube integrateds I would seriously consider. They seem to provide a lot of value. | |
| Just how much do speakers suppose to vibrate? Yes of course it’s the speakers that are the source of vibration. That’s what dynamic speaker drivers do. Who said anything about seismic waves? Not me. Speaker interacts with floor and waves propagate through the floor. Anything in contact with t... | |
| Just how much do speakers suppose to vibrate? If the speakers are vibrating due to interaction with the floor, as is usually the case with suspended plywood floors found in most modern home upper levels, then its often a good idea to try to isolate the speakers from the floor better by using ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Many advancements since then have been pointed out. Whether one thinks those of significance or not is a matter of opinion. But the advancements themselves are not. | |
| What is going on? No-one buys good stuff priced right. I’d say there’s a good chance fewer people are dissatisfied these days with what they already have leaving a smaller market for the true "high end" stuff.Many have good quality cellphones to start with these days and with the many good quality hea... | |
| Does a sub need to be on the floor? No but that’s where most are designed to be to work best.You can place a sub on an Auralex Subdude platform or something similar to help isolate the sub from interacting with the floor. That usually results in cleaning up the sound with more artic... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Johnk,Are your 1930 Shearer horns all original parts and design? If so and still in good operating condition that would be something. If not, then what has been done to "restore" them? Also if restored how can you know what these sounded like orig... | |
| Review: Ohm Acoustics Walsh 5 Series 3 Speaker Saw this ad and thought I'd share. I'd be tempted if I lived closer.http://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649292568-ohm-f-speakers-and-belles-model-200-amplifier-belles-xlm-preamp/ |