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| why do so many discussions turn contentious? Our lack of social evolution also tied much to our physical natures, testosterone and alpha wars. | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? Humans are clever and inventive, thus humankind evolves in the technical sense. Socially, we've likely not evolved more than five minutes. Someday, if we're clever enough may invent robots who'd be rid of us.Also, for far too many, this human life... | |
| Advice sought on sending a preamp from Canada to the US for repair and return While I'm opposite of you, live in US, amp and preamp Canadian. I've shipped these pieces to Canada for upgrades, always state on custom forms items are being shipped for repair. I always diy out of country shipping, major shippers make it somewha... | |
| Brothers from another Mother ? Volti is like modded Klipsch, I'd expect Volti to be more refined than Klipsch. Greg, Volti principal, has been offering Klipsch upgrades such as crossovers and horns for quite awhile. He knows Klipsch well, and how to improve. I use his mid horns... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics One could more precisely estimate bottom line value of fine tuning devices by removing every single one and compare. I'm not gonna do it. I've often done this when adding individual fine tuning device. Sometimes the addition of device is such that... | |
| Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? +1 on room first. You'll never receive full value of any system in your room. Don't color the components, fix the room, then you can hear true sound signature of your system. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Its been a long time since I've been flailing trying to better performance of my system. Every listening session over past few years has been pure musical ecstasy. I ended my cable auditioning quite a few years ago, present cables (and likely last... | |
| LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ? @charles1dad , Yeah, Israel trashed my Linlai 101, he seemed to not know of them when I initially spoke to him, only added he doesn't like mesh plate tubes. He also told me my particular pair were bad, I had them tested on Amplitrex tester after g... | |
| Kinki studio EX-M1, EX-M1+ differences... vs Denafrips Hestia/ Hyperion combo? @dkerr For amps I have Coincident Turbo 845SET,Art Audio Carissa Signature 845SET, custom built 300B SET monoblocks, Prima Luna Dialogue Four (modded with Takman resistors and Miflex and Mundorf capacitors, use exclusively with EL34 these days), ... | |
| Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? Actually, without the mods, while I might not have been in hate group, call me lukewarm. Even in stock form I could hear the good and potential for better, even great. I'm sure being long time modder allowed me to hear potential. While my mods are... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope I can understand their argument we're all just hearing things we wish to hear. What I can't understand is when they claim double blind testing is gold standard, then when not used, go to this basic science argument. In this case they completely di... | |
| Kinki studio EX-M1, EX-M1+ differences... vs Denafrips Hestia/ Hyperion combo? While I can't say anything specifically in regard to Athena, my experience with Hyperion leaves me skeptical that any Denafrips product would be to my liking. The extreme darkness, closed in voicing of Hyperion leads me to believe company doesn't ... | |
| LinLai WE 300B or the LinLai Global Elite Permaloy 300B tubes ? @liquidsound, hopefully you have full recovery. Covid is real and needs to be taken seriously.Recently discovered thread over at whats best forum mostly in regard to Psvane Acme series of tubes, some recent posts popping up about LinLai Elite seri... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling I'm not up on latest recipes, but I discovered Steve's original Helix page some time ago. I've auditioned many cables over the years using lending library at Cable Company, $1k to $3-4k in all categories. The Helix has been my go to pc for some t... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics That's what I thought you meant. I might even agree that newbies could be mislead on tweaks, depending on my assumption of what newbies might think. My issue is some posters entirely negating certain items and/or particular groups of what they per... |