waytoomuchstuff
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| As A Youngster, What Unit Puqued Your Interest In All This? Had to wrap some duct tape around my skull this morning to keep my head from exploding. So many woofers. So little time. This complex journey can needs to be broken down into incremental steps, discoveries, and bone-jarring (literally) experience... | |
| Cable elevators It seems that so-called "snake oil" products fall into 3 categories to those who solidly reject the premise: 1) the entire concept seems ridiculous or absurd 2) or, the price of said product/catagory defies the proposed cost vs performance benef... | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? As a dealer of high ticket items once stated: “it’s only money. You’ll make more.” | |
| Riddle me this.... I’ve noticed that when my wife and I are outta phase, our voices get louder. | |
| Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern) ??? So, the answer would be "yes" to many (especially vintage) speakers. We do custom performance upgrades to modern and vintage speakers. My standard practice (if the customer is interested in performance) is to bypass the level adjustments and repl... | |
| Help this old rookie with speakers Hi, @tbick . Welcome. As a Boston Acoustics and Klipsch dealer for decades, I am very familiar with both. Your ears (and brain) have become quite at home with the Bostons. Like a pair of old comfortable slippers. I’m a Klipsch fan (currently do p... | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? Fair question. After taking a look at some of your systems (and, rooms) I feel compelled to call my insurance company and make a vandelism claim on my system. "Below average" would be the highest endorsement for my system/room. As far as thos... | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium In my view, we should be celebrating the efforts of those that have commited the talent and resources to produce cost-no-object examples of the best our industry can offer. There are ultra expensive products produced from a multitude of categories... | |
| Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation? That’s original. Haven’t heard that one. | |
| Perplexed on how single driver speakers can cover such a large Hz range My brain hertz just thinking about it. | |
| Why do speakers improve with more powerful amps? @carlsbad2 ”You listen to the first watt. If it sucks, you don't need 299 more of them.” this could have broad implications. I’m going to file this in my “ life lessons “ folder. thanks for the post. | |
| Best Receiver? Nakamichi TA4. Utilized Nelson Pass’s Status technology in the power amp section and sounded quite different than other receivers in its class at the time. | |
| Quick Question About Power Cables Audiophile 101: Research. Try several possibilities in your system. Keep what you like. Return what you didn’t.. | |
| When are speakers considered Hi-Fi and not Mid-Fi??? “Mid-Fi”: A musically satisfying component/system where the owner recognizes the existence of a strata of performance well above the current level and may, or may not, feel compelled to pursue it. | |
| Stereophile and the love of hotel decor Stereophile should disclose their major investment in the Hotel Curtains R’ Us franchise. Their selection of rugs is still a mystery to me. |