phd
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| Audio Research in Receivership. Here's what ARC stands for now: "AS Receivership Continues" Now that's not funny because it's probably true! | |
| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? You can ask any price you want for your gear but will it sell for that is another matter. When I used to sell on audiogon I would search the internet/Audiogon for the average selling price and then ask a little less for a quicker sale. I'm sure th... | |
| Why are People Dumping their Audio Research Gear and What Does it Say about them? Love Audio Research gear. This is one manufacturer that makes gear sound as good as it looks! As far as letting go, (i would prefer these words as opposed to dumping) and it is more likely out of curiosity to try something else. How many audiophil... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? waytoomuchstuff, nah, that's just my closing closing statement, the war still rages on. | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? I'm still trying to get past throwing a firecracker in a chicken coop. We have been trough this before. If you add an after-market power cord to a component and it makes a positive improvement, then a conspiracy theory is not evident. | |
| How long do speakers last? Without having to do anything to them they last exactly 20 years, 275 days, and 30 seconds. | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? If you're driving an old gas-guzzler, your going to like them old receivers. Yes they look cool and have substance but they are not going to measure up to modern electronics. Starting in the early 90's well designed amplifiers took a big leap in s... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? Yes, records hit the wall at full velocity and broke into a million pieces, it brought a full standing ovation. However, that's the haters and there are many on Audiogon. I made a comment on how I love vinyl. I was attacked verbally. At 18 years o... | |
| Class D with high efficiency speakers Efficient amps and efficient speakers, sounds like a fabulous combination and it is. | |
| Help. System sounds thin and bright or harsh Focus on cables and their replacement. Stay away from bright sounding cables that have silver wire. Don't buy the ones that are advertised as highly revealing as this can put you over the top, especially if your components are considered to be hig... | |
| Tube or solid state Tube amps in my opinion are too high maintenance, although they sound good for certain music. In a world of growing shortages, tubes may increasingly become difficult to find and expensive to buy. I like the idea of a tube preamp coupled to a nice... | |
| Bad experience with an electrician Are you positive your negative? | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps After reading this I'm never going to buy amp that old again! The OP is correct, there are problems with the traces on the McCormack's input board that develope after a given number of years and may not be repairable unless you want to spend a ton... | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... You get 20% more in sound quality (maybe) and 20% less in available funds when you need it the most. If you are going to buy cables be sure to read the reviews and just remember they are system dependent. Be prepared to invest in addtional cabli... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. The great designers of our time know how to engineer an amp to get specific but desirable results. I'm still shocked how one amp could do one thing and then just going to a different model of the same manufacturer can produce different results, bu... |