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| How does one pick in this situation? @labguy: not sure how helpful you'll find this. However, FWIW, I sympathize completely with the dearth of high-end and/or good quality stereo shops in some areas of the planet. Regardless, I've always felt that driving a couple hundred miles or qu... | |
| McIntosh to Luxman? Not sure how helpful this will be. However, FWIW, several years ago, I spent a couple hours critically listening to a MAC MA5200 and the Luxman in a head-to-head demo, using a Rega P3 equipped with an Ortofon Blue, Focal Aria 936 and a Rega Apollo... | |
| New amps @tony1954 Too funny! That's the best response ever! I've frequently and almost invariably had the same response ... new, better amp? Got to get new speakers! | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much I agree with those who've already, much more politely, characterized the dealer you referenced as a pugnacious, arrogant schmuck. It doesn't matter where his or her shop is or which clientele he caters to. There's no excuse for that kind of behavi... | |
| How To Keep Cat Off Stereo Equipment? @sid-hoff-frenchman Bonjour, mon ami! As a consummate lover of animals and having shared my home with 3 loving, beautiful Maine Coon cats and loving every blessed moment of it, I can say your kitty likes the warmth generated by your components. N... | |
| speaker cables under 1k for Harbeth 30.2XD? @audiocanada P.S. Make sure you have quality, tight-fitting connectors at the business ends (e.g. gold). Personally, I much prefer spades over bananas at both ends, if possible, and I also prefer soldered (i.e. high-quality solder) ends. | |
| speaker cables under 1k for Harbeth 30.2XD? @audiocanada If you've spent any time at all on forums like this reading about speaker cables, interconnects, etc. then you know the debate regarding expensive versus inexpensive or moderately priced cables & interconnects is the quickest way ... | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? This is a story I've told just about all of my audiophile friends over the years: It was a beautiful sunny spring or summer afternoon in the late 70s or early 80s, as I recall. I was in a small city, had a day off and wandered into the highest hi... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? As jnovak has noted, I believe bigtwin has hit the nail on the head on this one! It would be great to get a bona fide neuroscientist's take on this. To one degree or another, I believe all serious audio and/or stereophiles are junkies, especially ... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops You're right, clearthinker! I am showing my age. I've been spinning vinyl since 1959; mostly 45s in those days, on my parents' early 1950s Grundig console. You'll probably have to look that one up. In cany case, as my love of music grew, I got mo... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops @jjbeason14 This is just a start: Do you play your records with the TT dustcover open, off or down? Dust is the enemy! Some purists wouldn't dream of ever playing records with the dustcover on or down. I might be inclined to do the same if my sou... | |
| Will increasing speaker cable AWG make a difference in sound quality? In my limited experience with this kind of stuff, here's what I found, with the same amp (McIntosh MA5200), same speakers (Revel Performa 3 F206 - 8 Ohm nominal load) and same lengths of (copper) cable (6 feet). Going from 16-gauge Monster Cable ... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? Here's a real-life experience that, IMO, about sums this up: I and a friend spent some serious seat-time with a pair of Aerial Acoustics 6T speakers (90 dB for 2.83 volts at 1 meter on axis; 4 ohms, 3 ohms minimum, low reactance; power requiremen... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" Couldn't agree more with Ray! Does Hip Hop fall into the same category? At best, Rap is poetry intoned to a steady, repeating beat and, for the life of me, I can't make out what is being said, most of the time! Not my cup of tea! However, a lot ... | |
| Looking for advise with selecting next integrated amp I, too, as a thoroughly satisfied owner of a MAC integrated would love to know what transgression(s) the OP alludes to. Maybe he (or she) could point us in the right direction? They certainly treat their employees well! This MAC intrigue notwiths... |