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| AI (Audiogon Intelligence) I presented Chat GPT with the classic "Beatles vs Stones" question the other day. Chat GPT is clearly a Stones fan. I guess I must have pushed a little too hard on my strong Beatles preference and pissed it off. Alexa instructed my Samsung refr... | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? Measure? "Yes!" But, I've yet to meet an audio analyzer that ... ... experienced listening fatigue ... got it's power plug tapping when totally engaged and fully resonating with the music ... got misty-eyed when a trailing female vocal is ren... | |
| Visit to Mike Lavigne's house Beautiful room and system. Thanks for a peek at one of the world's best examples of "getting it right." | |
| Speaker cable length. There’s a lot going on inside those cables besides just getting electrical energy from Point A to Point B at a fraction of the speed of light. The insulation (dielectric) is not electrically inert, which is to say that it acts as a capacitor absor... | |
| Cornwall iv This looks like.a good place to insert my "Frog to Prince" Cornwall story: In 1982, I owned an audio store and had a new out-of-the-area manager infatuated with Klipsch. speakers. The Consumer Electronics Show came around (Chicago) and I agreed t... | |
| Seeking Honest Opinions: Your Experience with McIntosh Audio Gear The first "real" Hi-Fi system that rocked my audio world was powered by McIntosh. That was 45 years ago. Blue meters were on my bucket list for my home system for the next 40. My interest in audio developed into a career that spanned 40+ years an... | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers My dog just can't make it thru the extended (album) versions of Free Bird, Layla, Hey Jude, Whole Lotta Love, etc. without grabbing a chew toy, or my stocking feet. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibilition earns an instant disqualification. The g... | |
| Absorbing traffic noise with Helmholtz resonators (video) @hilde45 This certainly falls into the "Gee, I never thought of that!" category. Very interesting. Much more socially and environmenatlly friendly than tire deflation strips to reduce traffic noise. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers Okay, sorry for the smart--- response. Just saw an opportunity and went with it. I love my grandkids and little furry guy. My speakers are 6’-4" tall, so I never worried too much about critters (including the human kind) toppling them over. I did... | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers Portable kennels are easy to deploy, and can accommodate children up to 75 pounds. | |
| Help me pick some new or used speaker cables Better speaker cables, yes! I may have missed reference(s) to room acoustics on this thread, but certainly worth looking into (if you haven’t already). Congrats on thinking outside the box with the T-7 mods. Typically "mods" will calm down certa... | |
| on the cheap If I “streamed” my sister, I’d have to upgrade everything in the chain to get that much data through the pipe. | |
| on the cheap Kinda blow away, actually, with how much they can cram into this little boxes for the money. I go back to the day when the price of admission an "entry level" CD player was $700, our best-selling VCR was $679, and 42" plasma televisions were $14,0... | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear The King's Singers: Hard Day's Night Fourplay: Between the Sheets Flim and the BB's: Brekken's Farm Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters: Kansas City Monarch And, popular rock hits that they've heard a gazillion times, but never experienced on a ... | |
| A valentine poem to tubes Tubes glow red. Mac meters are blue. If your system has both. Thumbs up to you. |