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| worse entertainer or performer of all time?? Milli Vanilli, I mean, getting caught lipsynching to somebody else's voice? THat's 0 for 2 | |
| Wife/girlfriend or audio: if you had to chose? Passion for audio = 30 yearsPassion for wife = 5 yearswife that would ask me to give up my hobby, 0 minutes, 0 hours, 0 days would I deal with that. | |
| Am I Bad Listener? ngjocky.. it's why almost everybody I know has a few favorite discs, (I have been using a Diana Krall disc forever) that they know really well. I play something, I hear something different, not sure what it is. So I play it again with the old comp... | |
| Am I Bad Listener? It takes time, just like say, appreciating wine. my hearing, I am sure, is worse than in my twenties, but I ascertain differences in things much better now. I also have developed a set of discs for certain things to look for like soundstaging, con... | |
| Your Favorate JBL's from the 70's L150s, although, early eighties.. got them in Okinawa at a sight and sound sale for the military. Mated them with a class a yamaha amp, onkyo preamp and denon turntable with ortofon mc20 cartridge, I kicked a@@ on everybody in the barracks! | |
| How to reply to questions about stereo cost? I can usually always find something that a man at least, spends an inordinate amount of money on, whatever hobby they have, whether it be a 100k boat that they use 3 times a year, 18 old watches, 20k worth of power tools to make an 800 dollar hous... | |
| How isolated is your hi-fi? Hiya Grimace, at my oldhouse, we had the "theatre room". Acoustic panels, heavy motorized curtains, 7 surround speakers (all wilson) two risers, solid core doors. It was great when we had occaisional friends over, it was great to watch movies in, ... | |
| Artist definitive statement Hehe Nazareth Hair of the Dog... Y'all don't Mess With...I am not sure they had ANY other moments, but that was a bitching song. Don't know why I thought of that first..Aerosmith should have defining moments of the decade, because they keep reinve... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Grooves. re: your accelerometer test. A three axis accelerometer would be capable of measuring both airborn and structureborn noise at the same time, but you can also just move a single axis acceleromter and make corrections for the published diff... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Actually Monsieur Fremer, in all seriousness, thanks for giving us a "warts and all" review. Having seen your post, I reread your review... and yes, "damning with faint praise" would be, in retrospect, an overharsh opinion. It is obvious that ther... | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH I would sum up his review as "damning by faint praise". This is of course, relative to the normal hyperbole. Kind of like when everybody gets an a in the class, and the dummy gets a B-. "Well its above average"..compared to what we do not know. Ce... | |
| Best Integrated Amp Of All Times? Bow Wazoo, cause sounds decent and looks purrrrty:) | |
| Pet audiophile peeves - name yours Wire manufacturers claiming their wire is "more accurate". Know what we use in a cal lab to measure dc to parts of parts per million? Pure copper wire and buff the ends before connecting. Wire mfrs do different things with cables to make diffent r... | |
| what kind of audiophile are you ? Actually, speaker distortion is very very measureable. Yes, it is room dependant, but getting a low distortion signal generator (ie Tek 505) and putting out through various speakers would at least give a relative level of distortion.. pink or whit... | |
| Speaker Recomendations $3000 ohhh, Audio Physic Virgos used... a favorite of John Atkinson AND me AND the old owner of the Digital Ear, who could have had just about anything and used these. |