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| Tube vs. Solid State Amplifiers Watts are watts as long as the load is a simple resistor. As soon as you're driving a complex impedance with resistance, inductance, and capacitance it might be better to say that current is current. And many (most) solid state amps use current li... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST TOUCHY SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Pretty much anything on Aaron Neville's "Warm Your Heart" | |
| eBay / PayPal: Beware - enough is never enough. I've been fighting with PayPal for over 5 months on a refund issued after the buyer received the goods. I even have a letter from eBay stating the refund was not initiated on their end, as PayPal claimed. Meanwhile the buyer has the merchandise an... | |
| Need recommendations for 20' speaker cable GearIT also has 12 and 10 AWG versions of these cables, plus bulk and various connectors if you want to roll your own. Then take the $900 you just saved and invest in acoustical treatment for your room that will really make an audible improvement.... | |
| Biggest audio hoaxes All those scams pale in comparison with by far with the two greatest perpetrated by Bose. #1 is the Bose 901 direct/ reflecting bogosity, all versions.#2 are Bose noise canceling headphones. In this case it's not that the technolgy doesn't work, i... | |
| Quest to find a decent sounding ,picture Blu-ray player I couldn't quite pull the trigger on a UB-9000, but I am very pleased with its little brother the Panasonic DP-UB820-K. Listed at $499, I found it on sale for $399. | |
| What audio aspect are you knowledgeable in? In the last 48 years I've made my living doing everything from live sound, rock & roll roadying, acoustical consulting, professional systems design and installation, design, manufacturing of speakers, selling HiFi, owning a HiFi store, scroung... | |
| Better/best fullrange nearfield speakers? KEF LS-50s with a REL T/5 or the new KEF KC62 subwoofer | |
| Need recommendations for 20' speaker cable GearIT speaker cables from our friends at Amazon. 25ft 10Ga OFC woven jacket w/Gold plated banana terminations and wire boots will run you a whopping $42.99, delivered if have Prime.I use these with my system and have no complaints. I used the cha... | |
| Turntables.....A point of diminishing returns? To me answers to these kind of questions fit best on an S-shaped hysteresis curve with a few inflection points. #1 at about $600, the Project Debut Carbon Evolution has set a pretty high bar for an entry level turntable. #2 Midway up the curve at ... | |
| Maggie LRS so ridiculously good My LRS are my 3rd pair of Maggies. Back in the 70s I had a pair of MG2167s driven off an HK Citation 16. My co-workers at the time were all into big Altecs, Barcelonas and 604s. The had never heard anything that could do what Maggies could. But wh... | |
| Integrated Amp Question for a Newbie to the Forum You can't go wrong with either the Luxman or the Mark Levinson. I've own-ed Luxman gear before and never regretted it. My personal choice here would be the ML 5805 if for no other reason than I've never owned a piece before.My outlier pick would b... | |
| Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible. In a perfect world your room dimensions would be 14.5 X 23.5 X 9'. That gets you the Golden Ratio in all 3 dimensions, and a good starting point. Unless you use the Bolt method, in which case it's off the chart. Go figure. Literally. You still nee... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list Acoustical treatment in both my living room and media room. Maybe add a sub to the living room system to fill out the bottom end of my LS50s.As for Covid - my New Year's wish is to get vaccinated, and for those who still don't think Covid is any w... | |
| Inexpensive MM Cartridge I'm a big Grado fan, but for this table, given the age and arm mass, I'd tend to lean towards an Audio-Technica, or maybe an Ortofon 2M Red/Blue. Just seems like an appropriate match. Back in the day, We sold tons of PL12Ds as our entry level tabl... |