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| Favorite Guitar Solo John McLaughlin - “Dragon Song”https://youtu.be/nFjRqTBoFDY | |
| Magico compared to Tannoy No one has mentioned the cost of Magicos, which are stratospheric. A non-starting discussion for me. The Tannoys are similar to my Altec 604Cs. They get me there. | |
| All New Totaldac D100 Loudspeakers....The HOLY GRAIL OF SPEAKERS ?! I’ll consult Monty Python first. | |
| MSRP, diferentiation and the illusion of value Different is not necessarily better. If you think it’s better, however, go for it. I do believe in things like context and proportionality, and social responsibility, and therefore do begrudge spending disproportionately on audio. | |
| The Placebo Effect The placebo effect is definitely a thing and it most definitely applies to a lot of the decision making applied to high end audio. If you think it sounds better, then it simply must be better. Since so much audio is about subjective perception, I ... | |
| What Is The Most Romantic Song That You Have Ever Listen To? I can only comment in terms of what stirs me:”I’ll Never Find Another You””Never My Love”I am not really fond of them, they simply hold tremendous sentimental value for some reason. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? When I was young, living in Hamburg NJ, a small rural community, I was the only audiophile that I knew personally. When I lived in NYC (for 45 years), I knew of two other audiophiles. Today, in my neck of the woods here in Newburgh NY in the Hudso... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? Mahgister, you protest way too much. My position is: if you are going to insist that I am incompetent or worse for refusing to spend thousands of dollars on wire even though I discern almost no improvement in sound at all, never mind an improvemen... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: "Clothes Hoist"From "Hole"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvAKJgsWVM4 | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel: "Enter the Exterminator". The out-of-nowhere heavy metal riff off the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg is a trip. One of the best from-high-to-low art syntheses you will ever hear.From the album "Nail". AllMusic calle... | |
| What Makes your System Special? It gives me love. | |
| How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to? There’s about 65-85 LPs in a linear foot. Depends on the thickness of the vinyl and the sleeves. So, the someone with 5 linear ft has about 375 LPs. When I moved, there were 88 boxes 13 x 13 x 13. That was about 75 LPs per box (excl boxes for the ... | |
| Do you care about car audio? No. | |
| I'm here for the sharing, not the snobery I started out in this hobby when I was a freshman in high school. At the time, I had yet to figure out if I was headed towards a career in the arts or the sciences. With this hobby, I could indulge in a little of both. I bought Dyna 70 and PAS kit... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? artemus_5 Science is the art of reducing the field of the unknown by making objective observations and measuring them.Religion is the art of camouflaging the field of the unknown with dogmatic certainties that are usually not correlated by objecti... |