stuartk
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| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? @krelldog I'm pretty sure this rarely happens. Its a great idea, but I can't imagine many dealers are going to let you take expensive speakers home, unbox them, audition them,re-box them and then bring them back. They may sell them too you, and... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? @larsman I dunno - some folks, like me, wouldn’t want to deal with returning big floorstanding speakers, returns or no returns.. I get it. I just don't trust my ability to make a purchasing decision based on a showroom demo or review. But the... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? @larsman Auditioning speakers is often not an option for a lot of people, You mean: a lot of people are not willing to limit their choices to what can be purchased with a return policy, right? | |
| Mazzy loves Little Feat! "...crank-case coo-kin’ -- that’s a man-i-fold des-ti-ny..." Great performance. Yeah; I bought that record . . what a let down. But we’ll always have "Bring the Family" to savor. I’ve only seen Hiatt once. He didn’t bring along any sidemen on t... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? How "safe" do you want to be? Personally, I'd never buy any speaker I couldn’t first audition in my room. Your money. Your ears. | |
| New In 2023 I haven’t read through the entire thread, so maybe you’ve already mentioned these; 1) "Encore" by Brain Auger and Julie Tippets has been re-released by Esoteric. https://atthebarrier.com/2023/06/12/brian-auger-and-julie-tippetts-encore/ 2) "Hig... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything @knotscott Tubes for guitar and tubes for hi fi have very different objectives. Audible distortion for a guitar amp is a desirable feature, not so for a hi fi amp. FYI, distortion ("overdrive") is not the sole goal or attribute of guitar amps... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? @oldrooney How much have you actually played with speaker positioning? I don't know how applicable this might be for you, but I had to experiment much more than I'd ever expected before I finally got this right. One of the most dramatic improv... | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. @digsmithd The seller bought them for use in his NYC recording studio and stated they were not quite as neutral as he'd hoped. They had very few hours on them and his loss was very much my gain. | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. @whart I guess I believe in a little luck, too. Yeah. My first lucky break was the suggestion by a forum member that I grab a pair of "like new" Silverline monitors listed on Audiogon. I had plenty of other suggestions at the time and I still... | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. I suspect I only narrowly averted getting caught up in this trap! In the past year, I learned the vital importance of two fundamentals -- speaker/amp matching and speaker placement. I messed around with speaker placement for months with little to... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything The quest for the holy grail in guitar amps (SS amps that mimic tube amps) has been going on at least since the 70's when companies such as Gibson, Peavy and Yamaha offered such products. You can now buy a tube Fender Deluxe Reverb or its lighter,... | |
| It’s it just me or there are others. @tylermunns Are these actual people or A.I.? I guess we can’t really tell anymore. It’s scary how increasingly fearful we’re becoming of individuals. We’re terrified and insecure if we have an opinion that differs from the masses. We seek val... | |
| Sound and music @rvpiano But even so, if these notes are not heard it is not music as we know it Well; we can agree to disagree. ;o) BTW, I am not a purely improvising player -- I was referring to playing an improvised solo during a tune that has both a ... | |
| Sound and music @rvpiano It's only just occurred to me that it is one thing for a child who has never heard music to "hear" a melody in their head and and another for a child born deaf to do so. A child who has never heard music will most likely have heard the ... |