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| Art Dudley Calls B.S. but without naming names - PLEASE DO! There are a lot of people saying how they upgraded from this to that and no one, but themselves, know the degree of improvement.When someone says they used something they thought was a good value,used it for years and then found something that wa... | |
| Beware the audio guru Truth is important on here.Most people on here, similar to myself are always trying to get closer to "real"with our sound.We count on truth and beliefs to lead us in the right direction of what steps to take next.If something is false it leads us... | |
| Beware the audio guru People who state things that are highly subjective are not really hoping or expecting everyone to just take thier every word as gospel truth,(or at least lets hope thats the case).Often its just as innocent as sitting on the couch with someone and... | |
| RECORDS THAT HAVE IMPRESSED PEOPLE SO MUCH THEY BOUGHT MY STEREO The Nightly was digitally recorded in the studio, a digital album all the way from the start.Even the LP.It does have a hint of a digital sound,but like several other "good" vintage digital records that I own like Rio by Lee Ritenour,it is not un... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Tape could have some harmonic distortion,but its the soft type,even order/odd order I forget which. I Don't think I ever heard a harsh reel tape.Harshness and reel tape are like antonyms,unless the machine is not warmed up.They usually take about ... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST I like tape also.AJ Van den hul in an interview said then he considered reel tape as a viable alternative to the LP and he invented a major stylus shape and modified thousands of cartridges.People would send him thier cartridges (to Europe).He wou... | |
| Do You Remember Your First Time?Is It As Good As You Dreamed? Hi-fi happened for me, in reprospect, and I did not even understand until years later that it was hi-fi. It was afternoon in autumn I think.It was 1970 something.I was in a school classroom and the Principals voice asserted itself over the interco... | |
| What used speakers raraely come up for sale Focal 7v7.These aren't really a whole speaker,but a vintage midrange driver that extends quite low.They are considered by some in the know as one of the best if not "the" best all time high efficiency cone midrange driver. DIY er's had a field day... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( As usual I have a different take on things.When I was a teenager back in the 1970's,there was this speaker they took ads out for in the Stereo magazines.It was a tall tower speaker, unusually tall, even.Instead of one midrange and tweeter, it had ... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Re:Tekna Sonic.If you have lots of these to experiment with, try them on anything you think makes a vibration,even if you cannot feel the vibration with your hand.Any designer can tell you micro vibration in componentry affects the sound.Transform... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST As far as Tekna Sonic goes, I actually use them on all kinds of things; on top of large capacitors,transformers of amps,and the top plate where you can see the little round thing spinning your CD below it.Even on the structure that holds VHS hi-fi... | |
| RECORDS THAT HAVE IMPRESSED PEOPLE SO MUCH THEY BOUGHT MY STEREO Thanks for the recommendations.I will actively try to seek out some of them.There was a jazz fusion supergroup called Return To Forever headed by Chick Corea with Stanley Clarke on bass and Al Dimeola on electric guitar.There is a CD box set with... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Yeah I have some Tekna Sonic.I even have some with the stickers not removed.Transparent !! Hey, I gotta go now,some guy that just died that I never heard of from on here must have left me his stereo equipment.Saying that "I have no real family, b... | |
| NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST I am not fond of the way you write either.Solution: take a hundredth of a second to bypass my listing or take who knows how long to get a life. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Do not forget perhaps the most creatively unique jazz album of all time; and to me its one of the finest too.It's an album called Mysterious traveler by the group Weather Report.This was the album where the sound of Weather Report began to gel ... |