wesheadley
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| Cable curmudgeon The reason I'm cable critical is because of the industry's long history of false claims and rampant over-charging. Yes, it is your right as an American to be ripped off. But to take that as a matter of pride just seems very weird to me. You want t... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Free market society last I checked (unless you are in say Cuba or China). You are free to buy or not buy. Free to lie to folks by making false or unprovable claims about your grossly over-priced products or free to be chump enough to fall for t... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Could not agree more. Beyond materials quality and build quality most of the cable company claims are just sales poetry. At a certain level, the difference between one quality bottle of Cabernet and another is in the flavor nuances. Not better tha... | |
| "World's Best Cables" vs Audioquest interconnects Keep listening to them. If after a few months you're not happy with them, sell them. They were cheap, right? BTW-- there is NO BEST cable and price does not equal sound quality beyond anything properly constructed using quality wire, connectors, ... | |
| Why should audiophile deniers be allowed on an audiophile forum? The question seems designed to create discord, yawn. Being an audiophile is not a religion. Believing in magical tweaks is everyone's right but to deny access to an audio forum because you're not a "true believer" is both dogmatic and stupid. A... | |
| Dust cover up or down? There doesn't seem to be much concern about the dust itself-- which is bad for your turntable-- it gets everywhere-- and bad for your records. It gets in the grooves, creates ticks and pops that are not always easily removed with cleanings. Some... | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? Speaker design is in it's incremental phase-- improvements at the high end are especially incremental. This is truer today than ever before. Manufacturers are no longer pricing based upon value-- PRICE IS THE NEW VALUE. We live in the land of co... | |
| Power Cable Break In - Such a Change! Whether you know it or not, when you spend thousands of dollars on a power cord you have just entered the land of confirmation bias-- and there is far more actual peer-reviewed science to support that than there is, by miles, that supports the pse... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Geez! I have about maybe a $50k system, good ears, and have experimented with cable upgrades and other tweaks for years. Here’s my take: If you have ample, good, clean power feeding your components upgrading the power cables makes essentially no ... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... This seems to be an endless circular discussion. So let me cut to the chase. More expensive gear-- beyond a certain parts and build quality is bling, not better. I know plenty of high net-worth folks due to my line of work, and what I have notic... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience? There are no qualitative differences between cables above a certain build and materials price point. $20k cables are a rip-off. Yet you can easily spend hundreds of dollars buying cables that you will not be able to distinguish from cables costing... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? What's the point of tearing down one musical genre for another? Remember "every generation throws a hero up the pop charts"? Rap and Hip-hop speaks to countless millions of people. Just because it does not speak so much to me personally is meani... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? This is truly a bore-- whether it be simply passive bragging, or price worshipping, whatever it is, it's got nothing to do with hi-fi. The very first response nailed it. You want to spend $120k on speakers? Glad the trust fund administrator is be... | |
| HOW CRITICAL ARE JUMPER CABLES Let’s do a contest. We’ll buy eight sets of jumpers-- from good to crazy expensive. Whoever can rank them by their price wins, let’s say, $5,000 for the prize, 10 people, $1,000 buy in per participant. Here’s my bet; nobody wins because the price ... | |
| More expensive = better? It is the height of foolishness to believe that the more a component costs the better is sounds because, well, markets! What a laugh! There are massive, absurd, insane levels of diminishing returns as you climb the audio ladder. I’d also say that ... |