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| use of ChatGPT for HIFI ChatGPT can be a lot of fun wriing parodies of familiar songs. Here's one I came up with this morning: I asked ChatGPT: "Write a parody song based on the theme of "Stairway to Heaven" about an elderly gentlemen who needs to desperately perf... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @ditusa "JBL measured the frequency response of my speakers @ 1 watt @ 10 watts and @ 100 watts and they have <1 dB compression of SPL output. See speaker specifications here last page. " That's excellent! JBL is noted for this. Along with... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Just a note that measured "frequency response" is a static measurement at very low power (1 watt) at a distance of 1 meter. When things start moving and real power is sent to the drivers, the dynamics will change the tonal balance and things may ... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? Being one who has "hot rodded" speakers for several decades (including earning a patent for my own design): It is impossible to describe the before/after results of "upgrades" unless you strap yourself down in front of the speakers and actually l... | |
| ...they're back.... I became a fan the moment the song Disciple hit the airwaves. 200 mile round trip to see them in September? Doobie? Or, not Doobie? Count me in. Yes, time is running out for these original rockers. Saw America about a month ago. They are one ... | |
| Don't Neglect to check your Caps! @stuartk I'll to do my best here, but I'm not an engineer. Anything in the signal path changes the signal. Upgrade a component, and the sound will change. We can throw in a thesaurus full of relevant audiophile terms here, but more of what yo... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes It's 2025 and we're still talking about "Ones and Zeros." You'd think that after many decades of involvement with digital music, we'd be up to 6, or even 7 by now. Or, at a minimum, 2 or 3. What's up with that? | |
| Don't Neglect to check your Caps! Chances are that you got a "twofer" here. - replaced a cap that was approaching end of life - upgraded the cap to something better than the OEM. The second statement is an assumption, but being involved in speaker service and performance upgra... | |
| Band/artist documentaries. Hall of Fame guitarist, John Cippolina, slipped under the radar of many, but deserves respect and consideration. RIP, Mr. Coppolina. Here are a few links to documentaries about John’s life and music: The first one is 4 minutes well spent if you ... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? “Pride of Man” is a bible-based song, which references the destruction of Babylon and possibly the Tower of Babel fiasco, as well. The song was written and originally performed as Dylanesque folk-rock by Hamilton Camp, on his 1964 album, Paths o... | |
| Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You? @immatthewj Those lyrics were so heavy I had to add extra support underneath my tablet to keep in from tipping over. | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? My first response to the OPs topic was: "Is this a trick question?". Apparently not. With hundreds of topics and thousands of posts per year, it's hard to imagine not getting some value from this forum. Assuming that one's audio world is com... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? Your digital investment x 3 should get you pretty close. | |
| Guitar lacking bite, vocal lacking presence It appears that you are describing a lack of dynamic contrast. This could be dynamic compression. Or, phase cancellation (the room). Or, both. Right off hand, it looks like there may be a power strip with lots of stuff plugged into it. You mi... | |
| Soft-dome tweeter damage - NBD or permanently compromised? Putting aside the fact you are fully justified in being upset over your new (to you) speakers being "violated", I think you're going to be okay. IF the soft domes snapped back into their original shape (as in PERFECT!) and there is no material ad... |