whart
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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? You can own a cool, collectible car without being rich.Or you can spend money lavishly, without regard to what makes sense.Same thing in audio. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Because folks that are passionate about one pursuit are often passionate about others. At one point, I had a picture of one of my exotic Italian cars posted to my system page and a user here asked my why I was posting a picture of my Corvette. :)I... | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? I'm with the others here who use common commercial records that people are generally familiar with, rather than 'audiophile' records. I used to use a Crystal Gale "Eyes" track from a budget label compilation (Liberty?). For true audiophile verisim... | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers Charles- I'm open to learning, considering other approaches and contributing where I can. I can also enjoy a good debate, but after too many years on the intraweb, don't have any interest in sniping, at George or anybody else. I enjoy (and enjoy s... | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers To his credit although Atmasphere (Ralph) is a manufacturer, with a vested interest in his own gear, I find his responses to be intelligent and open-minded. George is basically insisting that his way is the only way- and that is just wrong.FWIW, I... | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers The original purpose of the thread was to discuss noise abatement using a very high efficiency speaker (one which I own). George, I have great respect for what you do, but I think the proselytizing is a bit much since many of us have a variety of ... | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers Neat post, German B. And that guide book is pretty clearly written. Nice contribution! | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers Ying: Just keep in mind that the Granite Audio thing is not really a total solution, but in some ways a 'band-aid'- and i had mixed results with it; on some system configurations with different amp and preamp it seemed to work better than others. ... | |
| To Ride and Not Go Deaf When I rode, I respected 'em all, and they did me. I love 'em all too- had a Ducati, a MotoGuzzi and a blinged out chromed V-Rod showbike that I de-glitzed and upgraded with brembos, sticky tires, better seat, got rid of some of the cheesy stuff, ... | |
| To Ride and Not Go Deaf Doug, not to turn this into a discussion of riding, rather than noise, but if you are new to bikes (I started riding in my mid-40's):1. Take the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Course2. Practice constantly in big parking lots- the safety course doesn... | |
| Preamp Noise with High-Efficiency Speakers I transitioned from electrostats to the Avantgarde Duos almost seven years ago. Quieting the system was a major effort, but yielded enormous rewards. I agree with the above remarks about trying to find the source of the hum. At a certain point, mi... | |
| To Ride and Not Go Deaf I use etymotic ear plugs when I go to live music events. They are relatively cheap- under 15 bucks- and depending on how deeply you 'thread' them into your ear canal, the degree of attenuation can be altered. I used to ride and would not want to p... | |
| 80s Metalheads...sleeper picks This may be a little offbeat, but back in the day, I listened to Bad Brains, they were Rasta metal dudes who were pretty legendary. Their 'big' album was entitled 'i against i' and one of the tracks, 'Sacred Love,' has a very muted, odd sounding l... | |
| Do you know why Act- I have found that many new records, whether 'audiophile' or just plain ol vinyl issues, are warped. Apart from manufacturing defects, I wondered whether it was storage- Amazon seemed to have endless issues that way, but recently, at least the... | |
| Today's New York Times Wolf- according to Carlos Danger, that's how NY'ers 'roll.' :) |