wesheadley
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| 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 ... | |
| RIP oregonpapa I didn't know Frank, but I have read dozens and dozens of his posts and through his writing knew him to be a kind and a decent man. I'm really sad to learn of his passing. My condolences to his family and all of his friends in this group. | |
| "Power Cords-More Recent" The short answer is no. The longer answer is that by experimenting, if you want to, you might take things up a notch. After a certain level of build and materials, and amount of materials, more money does not equal better sound. It might yield som... | |
| Aren't you sorry you missed out on this one? It's already sold out! LOL I have an UltraDeck playing through a Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista Vinyl phono pre, through McCormack Deluxe TLC-1 Pre, and McCormack DNA Deluxe Gold amp, all out to Genesis III floor standers and dual Servo-12 subs. The UltraDeck sounds 'fing great.... | |
| Cable Goop Review George is going to freak!! It is offensive to see products that have a very low cost to create (bet this one does!), and that make grandiose claims that lack any objective testing or evidence whatsoever, and that charge stupid-money prices for it. I'm not saying you should ... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? Like I said-- I've been there and done that with cables. The argument is not whether or not all wire sounds the same-- it does not-- it's about quality of build and materials-- the rest is just chocolate, strawberry or vanilla (and all the other f... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? Better quality cable will usually sound better than the cheap stuff-- BUT-- the claims made by many of the companies that sell the inexplicably expensive stuff are, IMO, after years and years of listening to different kinds of quality speaker cabl... | |
| Deja Vu all over again I have both an original 1970 Monarch pressing in NM condition and the new 50th anniversary pressing. Both sound excellent but the new reissue sounds best overall. This as heard on a high resolution pure analog system. Get the remaster and listen f... | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? They sound like $500 speaker cables. And they sound like $15,000 speaker cables, and sometimes they sound like $20 worth of zip cord from Home Depot. Above a few hundred dollars for say a 3 meter pair (longer runs are going to cost more) and it's ... | |
| How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to? I have about 2050 cataloged in Discogs and perhaps a thousand or so more that are yet to be cataloged. I buy more every week. I have a an excellent system and prefer vinyl to digital (I also have about 3000 CD's give or take). I started collecting... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? Yes. I would have to be a fool to spend that much on a fuse. I would be an even bigger fool if, after spending more than $2800 on such a fuse, I convinced myself that just by changing that fuse my soundstage opened up, backgrounds became blacker, ... | |
| My system....what and how will cabling impact? When choosing cables-- for speakers, components, or power, beyond a point (based upon materials and workmanship) you will not get better sound by spending more and more money on cables. What you will get are differences-- like flavor notes on wine... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! perkri273-- I agree completely. Having spent a LOT of time with LP's, then CD's, and then digital streaming/downloads there is something about "process" that just feels right to me. I can tell that it is better for me. The sound is better for me ... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! John1 nails it. I've been buying music and building out my stereo system since I could ride a bike in the '70s. I migrated seamlessly from vinyl to CD's by the '90s and though I had a great turntable rig, I spent more and more money upgrading to h... |