unreceivedogma
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| Noise floors If you have too much ambient noise from sources external to your audio system, and if that bothers you, then you have to fix your room. It is that simple, and you don’t need a huge budget to do it. There’s a perceptual aspect to this. Having lived... | |
| A true legend has passed away! ' Set it and forget it ' And what does this have to do with audio? | |
| Why the cost increase? My wife and I are owners of dwellstead.coma mom and pop shop recently set up to acquire vintage homes with character or historic value, or just plain old homes, that need restoration done in a way that drives down their heating and cooling needs b... | |
| Fear of volume control I used to have to listen loud until I got a good room. Now, listening at low levels can sound as good or better - depending on the recording - as at higher levels.The old room was an asymmetrical 1200 sq ft of a 2,000 sq ft loft with a tin ceiling... | |
| Listening to digital and analog Having hunkered down in the corners of Audiogon for I dunno a few years, I’ll say this. The analog v digital thing had become a matter of faith. People are set in their ways/beliefs/ideologies/dogmas and while some are very erudite about their pos... | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? A quality phono stage is essential to the proper functioning of any high end vinyl analog system. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Put them under a blanket. Especially at night. With some milk and cookies. | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. Jeff’s inspired another sort of joke. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/adeonibada/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-blue-or... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? You lookin’ at me? | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Edgewear clearly has no sense of humor, and just as clearly had not seen the film. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_(film)“While Eva is telling the detective what she has heard, Ángel’s psychiatrist (Carmen Maura) calls the detective to tel... | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! In nomine Patris et filii et Spiritus sancti AMEN. | |
| Will accidental max volume damage a speaker? If it sounds ok, it’s likely ok. My daughter, a professional musician, was over with a friend once, wanted to play a cd of her new EP, didn’t realize that just because the volume control goes from 0-20, doesn’t mean you want to go anywhere north o... | |
| Noise floors My room is insulated by 6” to 17” of rock wool. It’s semi anechoic. | |
| Noise floors Artemis: the change you fear is coming and it is either inevitable or we will get to enjoy the demise of the homo sapien species. | |
| What's your dream speaker? I’ve been listening to them for 45 years. |