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Responses from temporal_dissident
| Why Is Hi Fi Gear So Darn Expensive? Tom Martin’s blog post is off base. Warning: this is a rant. This article captures much of what is so obnoxious to me about the audiophile community. Tom Martin applies reductionist thinking to readers asking a legitimate question. Is h... | |
| Survey: HiFi System Priorities I hope all of you who took time to comment also took the survey. Results improve as sample size increases. No, this informal little survey is not perfect. It certainly has limitations. Ideally, this would be a "constant sum" question format where ... | |
| Survey: HiFi System Priorities “Throw the list in a blender, feed it to a cow, come back the next day and guess what you got then? Right. Same as now. Only pure.“That’s funny. What’s your point? Priorities are BS? Nothing is more important than anything else? | |
| How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects? OK. How do I address this? What is involved in getting both circuits on a common ground? (Assuming that is the solution.) | |
| How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects? Two homeruns are identical length romex, and on same phase. Seperate junction boxes. Grounds go to same panel, but not sure about them being "tied together." My thought was one circuit for power amp and the other circuit for all other components. ... | |
| How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects? Settle down, people. We aren't curing cancer or defending the homeland. It's a hobby, and it lends itself to a lot of subjective opinion (wine?). robertcan I appreciate your perspective about $$$ spent on room treatments. I take your point. My OP ... | |
| Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement @audiotroy “Most centers are diapolito designs which will not work.“Dont know much about diapolito. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwoofer-tweeter-midwoofer)So why will these designs not work?Looking at ELAC AS-61 (on side) or Debut 2.0 C6.2. | |
| Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement Spending $11,000 for speakers to put there? I though I was out of my mind.@mijostyn, you misread my budget. I wrote $11 Million, not Thousand. And I was kidding. i wanted to eliminate budget as a constraint so I could hear the widest range of cre... | |
| Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement 12”H x 17”D x 24”WBudget $11,000,000 | |
| Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement have you thought of closing in the area and using an in wall speaker? To utilizing the space as a speaker cabinet sort of idea. They idea crossed my mind, but that would require me to essentially build a speaker box,...not something I'm prepare... | |
| How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects? I think this topic jumped the rails pretty quickly. My bad. Reading my original post, I realize this is my fault. I know enough to understand that the cable debate is a heated one and is very subjective. I understand that no one can tell me what i... | |
| How to A/B Test Power Cables & Interconnects? I was really hoping the first two responses to my question would be both impassioned and contradictory! Thanks guys! | |
| Any Audio Enthusiasts in Alabama? Birmingham, AL |