whart
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| System building; a meditation @baylinor- I think I follow suit in that each component is from a different manufacturer.@bdp24- I learned to listen on the old Quad circa 1974, and though I eventually added ribbon tweeters (Decca, later, Sequerra) and a sub (Swedish as I recall,... | |
| System building; a meditation @pauly- yes very broad, impossibly so perhaps. But it is the process that I'm inquiring about- I think @mikelavigne and @holmz both described the steps they went through. The question originally arose in my mind when thinking about the nature of w... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? Apropos the "technically informed," I think the key is exposure. You have to have seat time; all the engineering including audio or circuit design knowledge in the world will not translate fully into what you hear in a given system. If it is good,... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? @mitch2 - fair point. I took a break for a year or so from this forum b/c I found the signal to noise ratio deteriorated. But what are my options, other than reporting what I consider to be an obnoxious post? I don't usually do that for several re... | |
| A CHEAP AND VERY EFFECTIVE RECORD CLEANING SOLUTION. @bdp24 - just for the record (ahem), it was Neil Antin's monograph that I published. Rush's article appeared in Positive Feedback as I recall. (I think Rush got out of vinyl for some reason a couple years ago, but may be wrong). Bill Hart | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? I hope I'm not an angry old man. Getting old, but in the process, seem to have less and less to get angry about, at least as relates to the topics relevant to this forum. | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? @mijostyn: Actually I'm not Neville Chamberlain but thanks for the thought. I was, starting in the mid-90s, dealing with Internet appropriation of proprietary matter, and pretty quickly learned more than a little about behavior on the Net. If you ... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? @nonoise said "[and]Bob's your uncle."I love that expression; a colleague used it many many years ago and I eventually found the alleged source for it. You know it (perhaps apocryphal)?I don't know the answer other than that I suspect these fora ... | |
| USPS records delivery delays @bkeske said "...I’m surprised it isn’t a total train wreck....Agreed. It's amazing that it works at all, given the volume. | |
| USPS records delivery delays Sellers can be strange: there was a $300 record I wanted, but told the seller I was interested if he could send it expedited (within 5 or 10 days) max, and asked him to give me an all in quote. The record is still for sale, he never got back to me... | |
| USPS records delivery delays I buy a lot of used records online. The last couple years, since Covid kicked in, there have been slow downs, but that’s not the worst of it-- the longer it remains in postal authority hands, the more likely it is to get damaged. I’ve had more dam... | |
| Let's Help Bootstrap Young Audiophiles There is already another thread where a member here is helping out a youngin' with the promise of financial support if he builds a kit.I think it is a terrific idea to help newer audiophiles, both in terms of providing equipment or records, or gen... | |
| A turntable that plays all types of music well Using an idler, which has a different "sound" than a belt drive or DD, is a choice that mates really well with certain kinds of systems. But, I’d like to think of turntables as agnostic. Ditto arms. Maybe choose your flavor via the cartridge and o... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics I have a good VPI Magic Brick story. I bought a set of three from the Stereo Exchange a thousand years ago. And schlepped them around for hours as we did some other shopping. At one point, we were in the rug department at a department store (Macys... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics @arafiq - your question to @three_easy_payments is precisely the question. |