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| Nordost vs NBS NBS Statement: body, fullness; slightly rounded attack with few edge or bite harmonics; a choral, singing "open" quality; warm, powerful, punchy bass without a loss of definition; clear, defined strings and cymbals; slightly highlighted, intelligi... | |
| Help with my University Research Project It seems that your topic has to do with the harmonic effect of cables in high-end systems (you like to use the word "distortion" as an ordinary-language stand-in for the mathematical concept of harmonics, but I prefer harmonics, despite the math).... | |
| The first "audiophile"? Why stop with the emergence of the word as if what it signified did not exist before the word's appearance in our language? Everything was silent in the Garden of Paradise until the voice of Eve "appeared," where, in the sound of this voice, like ... | |
| Ever add a Aftermarket Cord to a TV? You can hardwire power cords into TVs and VCRs but different TV and VCR models pose different accessibility problems sometimes involving cutting into the chassis or relocating internal AC connector posts. To avoid this I cut off the stock AC cord ... | |
| The infamous What is more dangerous? For an audiophile to show the bottom of his wallet (the limit they will not go beyond) to another audiophile (better: to a dealer), or: for a playboy to show a seductress the bottom of their heart. --For me, Albert's upper ... | |
| High end dealers in Frankfurt About five years ago, I found London was the most expensive European city (for LP, and most everything else), nowadays Paris, Rome, even Vienna, and Zurich are more expensive than London. All of France is extremely expensive for CDs, and the LP pr... | |
| High end dealers in Frankfurt Drubin, your welcome. I only gave you the best addresses, so you won't waste time on disappointments. Kelly, Glasgow and Edinburgh have not yet been shopped by me. My wife could not put up with me anymore after what happened in London, so I laid ... | |
| High end dealers in Frankfurt Drubin, you are lucky, you reached the right man. Frankfurt high-end dealers:1. Just Music (Audio Note, Avalon, Ayre, Rowland, Lindemann, Rega, Blue Amp: unfortunately they went out of business a few months ago).2. Raum Ton Kunst, Neue Kräme 29, 6... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Hi, my name is Margrit, and I have known "slawney" (my husband) for 10 years. He asked me to write something to you about how I cope with his audio interests, so here it goes. Usually, things go pretty well since he has his own listening room and ... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? I did not visit this thread for a while because I thought its title was meant to warn all men to keep off the premises: "how do YOU (read: wives, girlfriends) cope?" Aren't men earnestly requested to leave this forum to those poor women unfortunat... | |
| dcs sound Some people seem to think that dCS gear gives you the absolute technical performance in digital reproduction in the form of accurately converted data. But dCS gear is in its best form an artistic tool, and admits the "analogue" element as much as ... | |
| "White Light Monitor" (slawney's review) Thank you all for taking this review kindly (I am purring as audibly as a full-grown cat when it has its fur smoothed in the right way by skillful hands.) Albertporter, you certainly would have been an excellent listener for the WLMs and I would h... | |
| Audiomeca Obsession Tube CD Player No Audiomeca CD player has tubes in its output stage. But Audiomeca used to sell a tube output device for its CD players and DACs called the "Tube Extension" for about $1,000. The Obsession was their cheapest CD player, and a Mk. II version was la... | |
| What Chopin solo piano cds are the best? I see excellent taste in the references to the classic performances of Moravec, Lipatti, Rubinstein, and Michelangeli. My German mother-in-law is a concert pianist and a Chopin connoisseur/collector: she once gave me a CD I was very impressed with... | |
| whats up with jadis Jadis had a strong exhibit at High End 2001/ Frankfurt. The equipment is still selling in Germany (with more people buying new, rather than used). I did not get the feeling from the reps that there was anything wrong in Europe, except maybe strong... |