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| what speakers do the best "disappearing act"?? Magneplanars, 3.6s are the ones to go for. | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Until a driver in one of my speakers developed a small tear near the surround, I had not changed anything in my system for over ten years. This was partly due to career and family pressures, so I take no credit for it; it was not some sort of Pent... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! This is the best thread I have looked at so far on Audiogoninsane. There's enough here to keep a legion of psychiatrists working for two careers. I took a stab at an answer to another great egomaniacal question about the minimum amount required fo... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" Detlof, I have no qualms about anyone listening to anything and enjoying it. If someone gets pleasure from a Radio Shack or Wal-Mart rack system, that's more than fine with me. If someone thinks that a 12K cable is just the thing, so be it. My poi... | |
| Are Audiophiles Obsessive Nuts? I don't think that any celibate monk has yet designed an amplifier circuit, correct me if I'm wrong. God bless sientists for they have given us sound systems in the first place. Tweakers and futzers may have put some sparse and thin icing on the c... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" It's amazing how many responses to the Dunlavy piece have been posted. It just goes on and on and on. Going against my own personal grain, I will make it brief: no you can't always believe your eyes and ears. You have to find objectivity somewhere... | |
| Cables that make no sense... Cables, heck P.T. Barnum is turning in his grave. Bell and Edison are looking the other way. Right on Snook2! Give'em hell! Platinum, I hear is even better. Why not bring the room down to zero Kelvin, I hear conductivity takes on another meaning d... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Sorry, forgot, the best is K. D. Lang. | |
| Help with my University Research Project At last some science! Well I hope that's what you are talking about. Interesting, maybe ultimately useless, but interesting. I recall years ago Peter Walker of QUAD explaining why reproduced music can never sound like the real thing. Maybe you cou... | |
| How could surround sound be used in an audiophile system? I still have and use a JVC XL Z 1010 surround unit. This, I am sure, will horrify most dyed in the wool audiophiles but so what. The sound is much more alive when the effects speakers are running. The question of the quality of the effect speakers... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Because most people don't have the time to listen. From those who have, a bunch just don't get it (do you have to play it so loud? I have neighbours walk up to my door in broad daylight cmplaining, one telling my wife to turn down the system, they... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Bob Dylan 'cause he can hold his breath the longest. Well he said it not me.Well seriously, depends on what you are looking for, voices have different qualities, singers change with age (and addictions I guess...) the best singer soul for soul, Ot... | |
| Speaker cable length for mono blocks The shorter the better. I have about one metre of what I think is Ultra Cable, which was highly regarded cable ten, twelve years ago. I have never felt the need to improve on this. One of the advantages of mono blocks, I think, is that you are abl... | |
| Gutwire cables If its Canadian it's got to be good. Oh well I am biased since I come from the Great White North. | |
| Why no index to indicate proper listening level? In reply to Sugarbrie:I understand the vagaries of the listening room acoustics and I am not really suggesting that the level be pre-determined and not subject to any alteration by the listener. All I am suggesting is that some index point be give... |