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| Am I Bad Listener? You are saying, in all candor, what most audiophiles can't bring themselves to admit: the differences, if any, are extremely small and obsessing over them gets in the way of enjoying the music.I would leave well enough alone and buy records to enj... | |
| Room Acoustics Very little can really be done in an apartment to soundproof a room since most of the trouble comes from the low frequencies that, quite frankly, get right into the structure of the building. Hard to imagine how you could build a second shell insi... | |
| Philosophy used in assembling your system? Best deals available in what I truly like. | |
| Best stereo recievers of the 1970's? I wanted to Luxman R-1120 or 1120 A, but found a Yamaha instead CR-2040 that should be delivered by UPS early next week. Seems a lot of people are interested in receivers of that era and that is reflected in the prices asked. I found a nice Pionee... | |
| Shipping Expensive Speakers? WATCH OUT Yes, that is one of the possibilities I considered, but with the mileage fees it makes the radius for my search all that smaller. BTW I laugh when I see U-Haul vans with the advert on the side saying $19.95 to rent it. You go there and realize tha... | |
| Angriest Lyric/Vocal How about Strange Fruit, the Billy Holiday song, angry in a slow burn way. Does heavy metal count? | |
| Angriest Lyric/Vocal "Idiot Wind" is way up there. Graham Parker does have a select few. as do "The Pogues". Oh you want titles? I'm getting old, I forget... | |
| Bass--How much is too much? Are your walls still standing? Then it isn't too much. | |
| Shipping Expensive Speakers? WATCH OUT For all intents and purposes, I consider shipping large used speakers a virtual impossibility. I have been looking for used Vandy 5As within driving ditance of my home for some time. Problem is I have to find the time to drive out to where they ar... | |
| the paradox of accurate speakers Jmcgrogan, what you say is simply wrong, but such a hard held belief for subjective audiophiles like you that, at this point, in this deconstructionist phase of the history of hi-fi, there is nothing anyone can do or say to convince you or yours t... | |
| whistling in the ears The noise heard is described as ringing, rustling or whistling, but, in all likelihood, what you have is tinnitus. I have suffered from tinnitus for many years. At first I believed it meant a curtailment of my interest in hi fi. It doesn't, but it... | |
| Tube amps and power consumption Well judging exclusively from the heat that comes out of my ARC Ref 2 mk 2, tubes use up a lot of energy, fortunately for me I live in Canada so the preamp also acts as a space heater! | |
| the paradox of accurate speakers So what is the logic here: if accurate speakers differ to any extent in their presentation it means that there are no accurate speakers so that we may as well have boxes that put out whatever any given person likes? | |
| How isolated is your hi-fi? What's wrong with peace and quiet? I bought a large screen TV a few years ago and innocently installed it in my sound room. I thought everybody could enjoy watching it. My wife and daughter almost never go down there, but my 21 year old son spends... | |
| Electrolytic capacitors Don't worry, caps can be replaced. |