onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| Hi-Fi can be less expensive than anything The whole point of a dedicated room is that it can be optimized for sound quality. As far as being a "man cave", take a look at some of the pictures in the virtual systems section where any number of people have aesthetically wonderful looking roo... | |
| Hi-Fi can be less expensive than anything Being an audiophile is never going to be a truly cheap pursuit. Equipment is only one element and probably the least expensive. A serious music collection can easily cost multiples of what is spent on equipment. Plus you have to consider the real ... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Those hard working people "need leaders but get gamblers instead." | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Aztec Camera's "someone singing's is better than the war we're winning".Ghosthouse, in another generation our ilk will be in full charge and ya'll will be on that dustbin. In the long term it's about demographics. | |
| Artists that use the same song structure... If in your entire life you just have a single really good idea and develop it you are considered a success. Two ideas in lifetime and you're a genius. Albert Einstein said he only had three good ideas in his whole life. If SRV kept re-using his go... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Bdp24, stop with the facts! A large percentage of our domestic population lives in a fact free void. Facts are seen as something the liberal biased media tries for gottcha' moments. | |
| Why does most new music suck? Take any single year over the past 100 years and the majority of music produced that year sucks. The same goes for movies, art, plays, etc. The music that gets remembered 10 or 60 years later is obviously the best music from that period. To compar... | |
| Rowland's new integrated amp If you have a loudspeaker rated at 85dB sensitivity (1w@1m) and you sit 10 feet away from the plane of the loudspeakers than you max SPL at the listening position is 110dB if you amplifier provides 1500 watts output. A 500 watt amp could only prod... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable Listening to music next to someone you love can make the music sound better than any equipment upgrade. | |
| What would you do? Interesting that this is your first post on Audiogon and you have no sales feedback. Even if you disclose what you might know, do you think you'll have any credibility? Who are you and what ax are you grinding? | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable The purchase of a luxury good may or may not make the purchaser happy, but it does make them happy about themselves. It's an affirmation of how they see themselves and their position in society. It's a testament to someone's economic status and di... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable There are volumes of research on why people buy luxury goods. High end audio is a luxury item and within high end audio expensive cables are even more of a luxury. The literature is pretty clear on a consensus view. Buying a luxury item makes some... | |
| What direction with new DAC? If you're happy with what you got and are not interested in DSD, then why change at all? Do you really think there's a D/A in your price range that truly outclasses your Wyred? | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable If the question is about why people have a need to buy expensive cables, then why not ask a more general question? Why the need to buy expensive audio equipment? I don't think there's an actual need, but there is a desire. It may say something abo... | |
| RIAA eq standards - a deal breaker? In nearly all systems it's the phono preamp that provides RIAA EQ, not the cartridge. |