onhwy61
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| Would you buy used headphones? Used headphones are the 37th leading vector for head lice transmission. Be afraid, be very afraid. | |
| How do YOU organize your iTunes library? Within reason there's no right or wrong way to organize playlists. Whatever works or doesn't work for someone really doesn't have any bearing on what works for someone else.I wish there were more dedicated fields for organizing. For instance, havi... | |
| Acquiring an awesome system, but how? You already have an awesome system! Is your brain really telling you otherwise? From what I can tell you already know how to do it quite well. | |
| How do YOU organize your iTunes library? Primarily by artist, genre or rating. If I want a specific album I'll do it on the fly. Approximately 350 playlists. | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? You've played with speaker position and you've dealt with the first reflection points (including floor bounce?) and in your opinion it sounds good. If that's the case, then don't go any further. It's not that you couldn't improve the sound quality... | |
| Dimly lit room: Plasma, LCD, or DLP A 42" class plasma will consume about the same amount of electricity for 3 to 4 hours of daily use as a modern full size refrigerator consumes in 24 hours. The WSJ says to add $200/year to your electric bill for the purchase of each large plasma (... | |
| The necessity of a plinth Your analogy between a turntable plynth (water down the drain) and enclosure-less loudspeakers is faulty. A loudspeaker is a transducer, a turntable is not. The cartridge is the transducer. So, maybe the question should be "does a cartridge need a... | |
| vander 5A, Revelsalon2, sf elipsa or magico v3? With any of the speakers you mention I believe your system would be somewhat unbalanced. You might consider upgrading your source components before or as part of getting new speakers. The AP Virgo is a very good speaker and I just think you could ... | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in Armstrod, the approach you and Albertporter describe could actually be as good an approach as exist for determining overall system satisfaction, but it is not the only way and it certainly isn't foolproof. Short-term A/B listening is the best way ... | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in Amstrod, simultaneously comparing two identical components with different usage hours would be revealing. I actually believe it would show burn-in as real, especially for mechanical transducers (speakers, cartridges, mics, etc.). | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in The discussion is veering towards the absurd. Are people seriously arguing that they can accurately compare the changes in the sound of high quality systems when separated by hundreds of hours of actual listening time? It can't be done. Memory is ... | |
| Village Vanguard session with Bill Evans This is an article from "The New Yorker" about the gig.Miles Davis' take on Evan's playing -- "like crystal notes or sparkling water". | |
| Live Santana... To me "Welcome" was the peak. The industry was different back then. Artists could explore new directions and the record company would support it. Very few current artists have that freedom now. | |
| Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters I feel compelled to add to this post because if someone were unfamiliar with the recording this post could give a wildly off the mark impression of what Hancock and crew have accomplished.First off, the album's sonics. It's not a minimalist audiop... | |
| Shelby Lynne Live At one point early in the concert she asked the people in the first row if any of them had a turntable? She then gave an autographed vinyl copy of her latest album to a woman who raised her hand. Shelby then quipped, "ya' know, digital sucks." |