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| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I’m done. I am 61 and spent a very zealous 30 years in the hobby, obsessed as any other audiophile. Life circumstances mean that I can no longer devote funds or more effort to this hobby. But ultimately, the timing is good because I’d ... | |
| Chesky Audio LC1 bookshelf speakers - a sonic bargain! I’d take a look at Erin’s Audio Corner’s Review before, assuming these are a bargain and going up to buy them. The measurements seem to match the deficiencies in the sound that Erin noticed. | |
| AXPONA 2025 @zlone Don’t base your impressions off that one room. Jeff Joseph is renowned for USUALLY getting great sound at shows even when most other rooms are struggling to sound good. That’s why his rooms have been popular for something lik... | |
| AXPONA 2025 Don, I believe Jeff’s description relates essentially to tonality and timber and detail. I’ve been sort of obsessed with live versus reproduce sound for as long as I can remember. I used to do live versus reproduced tests of recordings ... | |
| AXPONA 2025 Thanks Don. it was hearing Jeff’s room with the Pearls in Montreal That led me to eventually purchasing my Joseph audio perspective 2 speakers. The Joseph Audio site says; ”Live, unamplified music has unmistakable presence and clarity. Yet, at... | |
| A life sentence!!! My CJ Premier 12 tube mono blocks. They’ve been with me for the past 24 years. All sorts of speakers and equipment has come and gone, But these have managed to make every single speaker sing. | |
| AXPONA 2025 I am at Joseph audio fanboy. Did anyone hear Jeff’s room with the pearls? | |
| Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums Review @mitch2 That’s always a concern of mine, But since the Herbies Gliders are generally pretty flat and screwed right up Into the base of the speakers (Thiel 2.7s) They didn’t seem to change the tonality Or at least not to a degree, that bothere... | |
| Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums Review Mitch, I was already using Herbie’s fat gliders under my Thiels. I then tried Isoacoustic Gaias, And they provided some nice tightening of the bass, although I wasn’t totally sure about this, slight tonal change. however, it was shortly after ... | |
| Where was the best reproduced sound you ever heard? MBL 101s. I heard them at shows and dealers, with the most mind blowing experience was a demonstration of the 101s in the home of absolute sound reviewer many years ago. The most startlingly realistic, I’ve ever heard. I got a good p... | |
| Townshend Audio Seismic Podiums Review I seem to be one of the very few people who have tried the Townsend products under my speakers and who chose not to use them. When I was doing tons of testing of isolation materials while building my turntable isolation base, I settled on th... | |
| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? @mulveling yes, that’s been exactly my experience! I have sensitive ears, And I have always found that my tube amplifiers give a sense of ease and relaxation, So that I can crank the sound much higher and still enjoy it. Whereas when I have... | |
| Why do tube amps often subjectively sound more powerful than SS ? This has been my experience as well in terms of tube amps sounding more powerful, at least for their wattage. Maybe not all but certainly some that I have used. Conrad Johnson premiere 12 tube mono blocks - 140w side. I’ve had a very l... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, I think I’ve mentioned it before, especially since you were originally doing the cabinets for Thiel speakers: the CS6 Speakers that I had in my home for a little while back around 2001 or 2002, Where in I think the Amberwood finish. They r... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, that was absolutely fascinating. Thanks so much. It blows me away that Jim was contemplating an Omni durational driver. I am a fan of Omni directional speakers -,I’ve owned MBLs before. with Jim’s engineering chops I bet his design would’... |