wesheadley
Responses from wesheadley
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier @macg19 -- You’ve changed the subject. The OP was about a LOST package and NOT a damaged one. Damage claims are a totally different animal -- not even remotely the same as UPS losing a package during transit. Damage claims are notoriously difficu... | |
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier @macg19 -- Wrong. You have no idea how high value packages are handled by major shippers. BTW, I had a total of one package "go missing" while it was in the UPS system. It was insured. They could not prove delivery (and their software knows where... | |
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier @snook2 - Come-on man, why are you side-stepping the most obvious questions? Is it possible that you're wealthy enough to buy an amp like this but too cheap to buy the insurance when you sent it in for the upgrades? That would explain the half-an... | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? @mahler123 I have a pretty extensive music collection. About 4000 vinyl records, about 75% of which are in NM condition and about 5000 CDs dating back from about 1984 forwards. My system is high-end and all of the music plays through a set of Ge... | |
| Ebay selling my missing amplifier How come the OP can’t provide details about the shipment? To get useful advice more detail would be helpful. Was the item insured? If so, did they pay the claim? Who was the shipper? It is extremely rare for FedEx or UPS to lose a shipment like ... | |
| Vinyl Only Pink Floyd, Mettle -- Seamus -- S1-T5. Have no idea why, but that dog howling (Seamus?) makes it unlistenable. Luckily it's the last track on S1, so an easy skip. | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? @dill - Shouldn’t you want to "prove it"? What experiment or test do you propose that will allow for a fair evaluation? There’s no "better", there’s just different. Beyond a certain level of build or materials quality, more money gets you nothing ... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? Unless there was something very wrong with your last power cord, or it was just a very poorly made one, you're not going to here any differences other than those that occur within your own mind via confirmation bias. This has been tested to death.... | |
| Music first or sound first? Music first. You want 'sound', just go outside. ~Wes | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama You're right guys! I didn't read the whole thread. After learning that they were set up wrong, missing feet and holes in the bottom, I ASSUMED that there was a request and a refusal to remeasure based upon the Audioholics video. My bad! | |
| Thin Line Between Critique and Courtrooms: A Dialogue on the Recent Audiophile Drama Look, if you were the maker of a sports car, and I was reviewer of that car, and I did some road tests with the tires grossly underinflated, with the emergency brake left on while I was driving it, and the test tracks that I used to test it were m... | |
| How Is This Possible? Must be Counterfeits Nordost selling a cable for $60k is not a scam if you believe that it makes your system sound better. It is also true that no one will be able to rank any group of high-end cables by price, and you could probably include a few quality made Chines... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @waytoomuchstuff Your musical references are all things that I like a lot. They are all very singular in their sound. So based upon that, here are a few things to try that you might like: Woods - Strange to Explain Vetiver - Up on High Real Est... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @tylermunns I’ve slowly, very slowly, come to the conclusion you have come to about Antonoff. He HAS made Lana more bland and I keep hoping she’ll find a new producer, or go back to one like Dan Auerbach. Her writing I think remains strong... bu... | |
| Are You a Swifty? @tylermunns Ha! You're right! I should not make that distinction unless asked to. Regarding Lana Del Rey -- have you listed to her album "Norman Fucking Rockwell"? She's an exceptional songwriter. She does not write by committee like say, Beyon... |