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| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I am original owner of a pair of OHM Ls I still use and enjoy that I bought new back in 1978. They went for about $500 a pair back then. I rebuilt them once myself a few years back and they still sound great and excel with progressive rock music i... | |
| REFURBISHING VINTAGE TUBE RADIOS- The old table radios are a lot of fun. Some sound pretty good. Many have excellent reception.I have This Airking model probably from the 1940s sometime, sitting on top of a bookshelf for display only at home. I have not fired it up for years knowi... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs Yes, I agree with Mcondon's post as well.Good marketers know exactly what nerves to condition the public into potential customers. What seems like a bargain is all relative. Its all a game more than anything I suppose really.AN $8600 product recei... | |
| Good speakers with small woofers = 10 cm/4" Totem in general gets amazing sound out of smaller boxes and drivers. | |
| Interesting bilind testing of Stradivarius Violin Vinyl lps are probably another example like radios from their heydey. | |
| Interesting bilind testing of Stradivarius Violin I"If you get Heifitz on the panel that can't hear the difference maybe then I might get on board the placebo train."With great contributions to the state of hi fi sound like teleportation tweak, flying Saucers, and clever clocks, I suspect you are... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- "after changing anything possible - start playing with fuse direction ..."How true. Anything possible.Sadly, I lie to experiment with anything possible for sure, but I do not have time to waste, so I choose my experiments carefully.I'm sure those ... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I have a fair number of country recordings both old and new. With rare exception, they all tend to sound very to really good and a revelation to most anything similar I have heard prior anywhere. | |
| Problem with NPR I just did a search for internet stations on my Squeezebox using the word "audiophile" and found several classical, jazz and blues oriented "audiophile" stations streaming at 320 kbps and they all sound very good. | |
| Interesting bilind testing of Stradivarius Violin "It's far more about the fingers and the ears than the instrument. However, if two players are more or less equal then the one with the superior instrument should prevail."I suspect the musician's ability to master any particular instrument of goo... | |
| Problem with NPR Always looking for high quality radio sources. Will have to search it out on internet radio and give it a try. Thanks for the tip.I'm also a Radio Paradise fan. Interesting to read about the technical details behind different Internet radio statio... | |
| Interesting bilind testing of Stradivarius Violin I was reading up on Stradivarius instruments on Wikipedia.From what I read, quantifying if and why these particular instruments sound different or better than others is kind of like trying to do the same with fuses in hifi gear. Clearly part of th... | |
| Want Nice table radio cd player to replace bose Sangean++. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I don't hear much about OHM subs and have never heard any. I'll be interested to hear about it as things unfold.Prices look competitive and John S. consulting can only be a bonus. | |
| Impressed by Pangea Audio AC-9SE I am an esoteric tweak skeptic, as some here would likely attest to, I recently bought a Pangea AC14SE, to replace a fraying old power cord for my DAC, new for less than $100 and I have been very happy with it. It does seem to have lower noise and... |