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Apr 24, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 Like I said, your descriptions are fictional at best. No correlation to how these speakers actually sound, only to how YOU hear them.Thanks for one of the more hilarious posts of recent memory.Of course that’s how the speakers SOUNDED to me. But i...
Apr 24, 2019	Your favourite Rush albums? @n80I agree.But I mean it in a nice way :)My father-in-law listens strictly to classical music. To his ears, pretty much all other music, especially any popular modern music, is only fit to be played by "cavemen dancing around a fire." (His words)...
Apr 24, 2019	Your favourite Rush albums? BTW, though I have a wide range of musical interests, pgaulke60 managed to put together a list of music that, for the most part, makes me gag. Yuck!If there is a more mindnumbingly boring music than early Springsteen, I can't think of it. Santan...
Apr 24, 2019	Your favourite Rush albums? As a once-Rush fanatic growing up, that's a tough question.But I think I have to go with Hemispheres. That's when I'd got in to Rush most deeply and it's their most complexly layered, ambitious stuff. I had so many nights with the old headphones...
Apr 24, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 rlb61I understood mark to be saying he preferred the original pulsars over thethe old LSAs, not over the new pulsars. I presumed he referencing the old Pulsars simply because he hasn't heard the new ones.
Apr 24, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 Keep in mind that to many the sound they are “hearing” is entirely in their heads. No relationship, whatsoever, to the way some components actually sound. Beware of judgments like “push my buttons“ or “foot tapping” or even the holy word “music...
Apr 24, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 Fwiw, the new lsa monitors are better then the joseph audio pulsars. **pssst: In your opinion.I haven't heard them so don't have an opinion. But having heard much of the competition, I'm a tad skeptical. People who like the JA speakers tend to ...
Apr 23, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 Glad to hear markalarsen. The "whitened" comment gave me pause. I don't like the idea of the tonality being messed with too much.Nice little report on them here too:https://audio-head.com/joseph-audio-announces-updates-to-his-pulsar-and-perspecti...
Apr 23, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 fsonicsmithThat’s surprising. Especially the comment about missing midrange magic. I thought the midrange of both 0/96 and 0/93 had some magic. I heard them on Nagra SS amps and a tube amp I can’t remember.I use Conrad Johnson Premier 12 tube mono...
Apr 22, 2019	I woke up with cold ears mr_m,Yes, I've had bad tinnitus since the mid 90's or so. But I mostly habituated to it long ago and it very rarely has intruded upon listening to music (except that I don't want to blast at high levels which can exacerbate it).Hyperacusis is a w...
Apr 22, 2019	Thiel Owners unsound,Did you follow up that call?Especially if we are talking about a small outfit run by one, or few people, it can be tough juggling the communication part. It's certainly taken some follow up reminders when I've communicated with a number ...
Apr 22, 2019	Puzzled about reasons why there seems to be no shortage of used planner speakers Why are you puzzled there is no shortage of used planars?There is no shortage of used box speakers either. In fact, there are far more used box speakers (because more are sold).By my quick calculation, just looking at audiogon, there are roughly 4...
Apr 22, 2019	I woke up with cold ears @jtcfYou aren’t alone. The first thing I thought was “I hope Erik hasn’t developed Hyperacusis” (seems like he didn’t as he’s no longer complaining about it).Like you I battle Hyperacusis (and tinnitus) - currently going through a very dispiriting...
Apr 21, 2019	The Harbeth phenomenon My experience with the Harbeths in terms of soundstaging/imaging is that they seem to achieve a large soundstage in a large room, but could not in my smaller 13' x 15' room. (I had the SuperHL5Plus).I've had tons of different speakers in my room...
Apr 21, 2019	New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2 fsonicsmithI certainly would not argue with what you find movingly musical or not. I’ve sat next to people who loved the sound of a speaker where I was left uninvolved.(In fact just today I listened to the big flagship Monitor Audio speakers and s...