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| Your Favorate JBL's from the 70's I like JBL a lot more these days than back then. JBLs in teh 70's were never my cup of tea. Most receivers and many integrated amps even of the day were not up to bringing out their best. I much preferred OHM over JBL in the 70's at Tech HiFi, tho... | |
| Another unconventional power cord test? "finding a pc to maximize the potential of the component and your speakers is rough. "PCs/any general purpose home computer or laptop are good at storing and sending data, but are inherently noisy. Best to isolate them from gear that produces HiFi... | |
| Another unconventional power cord test? That's a nice find. Computers are inherently noisy and are best always isolated from hifi gear. | |
| Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers? He asked you not to tell him that..... :) | |
| the magic of power cords Bo would make a great heel wrestler in WWE.His gimmick: "I always know what is best for you so let me tell you something, brother...."Seriously, Bo knows what he knows and is not afraid to say so. Good for him! OTher than coming across like a heel... | |
| two way v. three way speakers More drivers are used to accomplish three things (if/when needed):1) cover the full range of sound that can be heard2) enable speaker to go louder with less breakup/distortion3) provide wider dispersion of sound so speakers sound good from a large... | |
| See what Country song was 1 on the day you were b The Three Bells by The Browns for me. "Mack the Knife" on US pop charts. | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers ..unless there is nobody out there willing to play along..... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Where did ML ever pick up that crazy paradigm? I guess it's always easier to put the burden on the other guy :-) That's a pretty safe bet no matter which way one thinks technically. | |
| the magic of power cords I n practice, I make a simple judgement when listening to whatever. It either sounds good or bad. The difference between the two might be called night and day, but in fact could be relatively minor. I either enjoy what I am hearing or not.On that ... | |
| To all that worked in audio salons. I have an early Audio Alchemy CD. Nice recording! Music is not bad when in the right mood. A little bland for the masses though.Audio Alchemy....what a perfect thing to demo with in a high end audio salon......where audio alchemy often rules!! | |
| Major mistakes made in assembling your audio rig In my toughest room acoustically, which is my wife's sunroom, it took me a long time to get something working well in there. Always either too much bass, too bright, or both. Finally I ended up with a good solution currently in place using my Tria... | |
| To all that worked in audio salons. I worked at Lafayette Radio, TEch Hifi and Radio Shack at various points in my early years.Here are teh recordings that I found most successful in selling systems back then:1) JEff Wayne's "War of the Worlds". Most successful demo record overall. ... | |
| Heartbleed I am not totally familiar with the details of OpenSSL implementations out there today, but OpenSSL is an Open Source technology, meaning it is openly developed by a consortium of various developers and companies. Open source works well to help est... | |
| DACs And Classical Music Classical music, larger scale works in particular, are overall the most acoustically diverse and hence most challenging overall in general of any music genre. Its always that way, be it DAC, phono, whatever attempting to reproduce.My mhdt COnstant... |