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| Beware the audio guru If you have enough experience and are relatively sane, you can EASILY tell what works for you and what doesn't. The results are the same. | |
| Vandersteen Sub woofers v Rythmik Subs As an audio fan and sound engineer/musician (over 5 decades and counting) there's a lot of practical info in my feeble brain, and I never take for granted where I place my mains or subs, so there's that. I've heard the "put the sub at the listenin... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables I fund some inexpensive (relatively, certainly not cheap) but new 10' Rocket 33s (33s are the ones Uncle Bill recommended) on Ebay...double biwire on the speaker end, nice bananas, and a really great sounding cable. I understand people like the mo... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables I started using Audioquest speaker cables back when they were stranded (!), and those looked sort of like Kimber cables do now (late 80s I think, and I still have those in my basement Cable Museum). That was the first time I'd actually heard speak... | |
| SS preamp with tube amp This is the thread that "guilted" me into spending relatively small bucks for what turned out to be a great tube preamp, a Schiit Freya...Sylvania "crome domes" and fabulous tone for days, whatever that means... | |
| Tried tubes and LOVED it, now what? I enjoyed a Jolida 502P for years with a very substantial dual mono balanced blah blah preamp (Kavent S-33 Vincent clone), and those were great together (I've been tube guitar amp user for 5 decades). I started learning more about "single ended" t... | |
| Does anyone leave their amp and preamp on all the time? Preamp tube wear is less when left on? That is utterly positively and absolutely not true. Also, the myth that power amps suffer from on/off power pulses might be true for poorly designed gear, but I've owned lots of amps over 5 decades and that h... | |
| Vinyl VS Digital I'm a "pan format" listener, but I bought some of my vinyl in the 60s, some is new, and one thing is an absolute: Vinyl will only play on a turntable. People who toss their vinyl out mystify me as man, there's some mojo on those things, and althou... | |
| Beware the audio guru "Use your entrenching tool." | |
| Beware the audio guru "There's a seeker born every minute"...Firesign Theater. | |
| New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000 It's simply lifestyle marketing as people who actually want to spend the bucks will. Having at least a rudimentary understanding of how amps work, and not taking in to account whatever the research budget might be, there is absolutely no way Uncle... | |
| How To Field Questions About Your Audiophile Lifestyle... It's tough to get anybody into this stuff...I've advised people about systems because they trust me to do that and that's always worked out fine, but in the typical dinner party group with my rig playing unobtrusive background stuff (no vocals...a... | |
| How To Field Questions About Your Audiophile Lifestyle... Does somebody actually get "introverted" from "when people would constantly tell you how foolish you are for wasting time and especially money on stereo equipment." Who are those people? That's a tough crowd ya got there. My experience over more t... | |
| How To Field Questions About Your Audiophile Lifestyle... Audiogon has lightened their post removal policy a little recently and I feel that's a good thing as I do argue with people from time to time. One newer guy simply used the removal process as a cowardly remedy to any challenging response if he fel... | |
| Beware the audio guru As a devout atheist, blasphemy is my thing. |