unreceivedogma
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| thought on eBay? My worst audio purchase ever was on eBay. One of my best audio purchases ever was on eBay. The best: I got a Koetsu Rosewood Signature for about $1,000 from a seller in the UK. The ad was simple, short, clear with detailed photos. I had a few ques... | |
| Klipsch Forte ii too bright, or is it my room ? Synergy is key, but I would start with the room. | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different “…for this many people to be…delusionaries…”In pharmaceutical clinical trials, the placebo effect is A Thing, people get better because they think they are not in the control group, and they number in the thousands. That’s why you have peer review... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics The controversy around priorities and putting topics like cables and floating the cables on little feet etc in their proper context with corollary importance (or lack thereof) and to what degree complexity lends itself to obfuscation rather than u... | |
| Critical listening and altered states If you remember* being at Woodstock, you weren’t really there. So the saying goes.Similarly, altered states are good for experiential activity, not for evaluative activity. * I remember trying to get there with friends, then the VW van broke down ... | |
| Recommendations and thoughts for end game speakers and amps Try my setup, which at the moment I feel (who knows how I will feel in a year, assuming I still have a pulse) is 98% there:https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/aboutYou can use the $30K you save to buy the wife a little Mazda Miata sports car... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics @danagerI read somewhere that the act of pulling a record off the shelf, removing it from its sleeve, cleaning it, placing it on the turntable, clamping it down, dropping the needle on the groove and settling into the armchair is akin to making th... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics cleeds:I never said 40. That was someone else. | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics @ danager :I am confused. What is Sotify ? Qobuz? Tidal?I’ve been listening to Scraping Fetus Off the Wheel for a little over an hour. Then the wife came home. I switched to some Mozart concertos. Life is good. Since I’ve found the sweet spot for ... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics Those of you who may be interested in buying some of the 600 LPs that I am weeding out of my collection should contact me through my website, and ask me what you specifically are looking for. My collection is 1/3:- classical- Afro Cuban- 50s, 60s,... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics @ whart:I listen to both crushing metal and classical chamber. My system must be able to comfortably handle both. | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics cleeds:I am 67 years old. The brain cells are dyin’ by the billions as I write this. By the time I finish this post I may be ready for assisted living. I saw Jimi Hendrix perform at the midnight concert at the Fillmore East. That used to give me b... | |
| What process do you use to purchase cables? @ emergingsoul: “…buy on faith and have patience.…”You said it, not me.I went to Catholic schools. I remember one religion class when I was a freshman in HS. The priest was talking about how we know God exists: “Look out there window, at the beaut... | |
| What process do you use to purchase cables? This is how I went about it:- consider my budget. I did not even think of considering anything more than 50% of what I think the budget will allow- read up on stuff - as I regard most of what is there to read is 5% information and 95% marketing, I... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics MC:”I really don’t mean to sound disrespectful but your mind is easily boggled”🙄That emoji is my final engagement with you.Curtains! |