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What the heck do these terms mean?
God, I hope there is ice, partially melted in a nice slick in the Scotch, a Talisker would be fine....of course, there are no words available to describe Talisker.... 
What the heck do these terms mean?
There is of course the myopic, I know it only when I hear it crowd... what a small sample size to live life by....try this experiment: look at your spice rack ( count unique ) then head out to a foodie place - just do the count.....tough to try th... 
What the heck do these terms mean?
Cars, wine, violins, cigars, fish, high end audio..... Flyrod.....define crisp tactile turn in with a whisker of oversteer ?ya, thought soriding along ( verbally or otherwise ) will never be the same as driving....so as humans ( maybe ) we are lef... 
Quantify the difference between Holland Amperex e188cc/7308 and USA Amperex 7308/e188cc?
Andy at Vintage Tube Services... dude is amazing but call him, e-mail is digital.... 
Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system
Great thread !!!! 
Best bass in Earth! Bass that just smells right...
Tim - well thought out and it works IF at 80 HZ you have a steep low pass filter. A steep high pass screws up time and phase And the bass higher order harmonics.just about any Blue Note by Van Gelder will nicely illustrate this. Multi track rock n... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@boxer12 @bdp24 turned me on to Desert Rose..... ya man 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Back...Cash - Unchained 
Why is it so good?
As a high speed tape, LP and digital owner and ardent listener, I appreciate the plus / minus Each format brings....welcome to the modern world !!!! Lot of music not available on analog and the other way round. Check out 2L Recordings for some SOT... 
families of audio concepts, mixing, and listening
But for fun check out the Vandersteen pistonic motion utube video. Cool German laser scanner of cones fed a test signal and one popular super expensive midrange driver is out of phase to the input half the time.perhaps we can agree that out of pha... 
families of audio concepts, mixing, and listening
Another myth is nobody cares about quality now - utter rubbish ( well maybe the pressing plants, but that is a different story )there are labels , recording engineers, studios and producers who do care try Chesky, Blue Note, ECM, 2L.....what you d... 
families of audio concepts, mixing, and listening
BTW a large baffle results in flatter frequency response BUT destroys time and phase information, your ear is more sensitive to time and phase, your wallet loves flat frequency response...you can get both, few do it.... it’s difficult  
families of audio concepts, mixing, and listening
Get as close to neutral and time and phase correct with low distortion as you can and then because the monitor used and mixing/ mastering philosophy and car audio / FM requirements/ early LP bass tracking failure all screwed up sound.... and then ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
You guys altered my path....I was all set to launch J Cash after a 90 minute Webex...now...Radiohead - A Moon Shaped PoolServer 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
World of Strange Design is a perfect song....