wolf_garcia
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| What happened to all the highend stereo shops "Young Americans," or "goal for the majority," are both funny to me. It's a fact that audio geeks are a tiny minority and have been for years. Sure, people used to own stereos therefore supporting retail shops, but people also used to huddle aroun... | |
| Monitors A very weird question...trying to think of some analogy...uh...what if you kept buying faster cars until you exploded into space? Nicer houses until you owned the entire country of Monaco...by the way, regarding reference sound, I was recently at ... | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops Form where I live in MA I have Natural Sound (great place for bird calls, dripping water recordings, wind...you get it) and Goodwin's High End which is neither high or the end...both nearby. Both seem to be doing great...Audio Video Therapy (!) is... | |
| Shindo vs the world I consider Dennis Had and Nelson Pass (based on my experience...there are others certainly) to be domestic Shindos. I like the looks and the entire idea behind Shindo stuff as a warm and interesting place for tubes to go. | |
| 4 8 or 16 ohms. Always use the recommendations of complete strangers over your own hearing as hey, you don't want to insult anybody. | |
| How to prevent visitors from touching your system Over more decades as a musician and audio geek than I care to admit I've never had an issue with anybody including friends, kids, friend's kids, hippies, vandals, or simply anybody mess with any gear I've owned. A drunk wife of a friend did fall o... | |
| Swiss Digital Fuse Box - "What headroom sounds like" I predict that this brevity free "digital fusebox" laden with hyperbole is another remedy for something that isn't a problem...regular little fuses supplied with gear. Like the ever more expensive SR fuses that have had endless testimony here prai... | |
| cheapest speaker made in the last 10 year that can beat any speaker made before 1970? Answering this question requires only two things, to listen to and remember the sound of every speaker made before 1970, and then simply listen to every "cheap" speaker available today...compare... | |
| Integrating speakers into contemporary decor - can WAF ever be overcome? Topics like this always turn into sexist nonsense combined with exposing obvious yet utterly random weaknesses in many relationships. Would a spouse with a loud multiple exotic birds hobby feel slighted if they couldn’t impose this on their live-i... | |
| Subwoofer Baloney...I used one REL Q150 for years and it sounded great, and still use that one now along with a Q108MK2...still...one properly adjusted sub can work beautifully in any room. | |
| Integrated suggestions A friend has one of those gigantic Vincent things that sounds pretty good, and hey...it has tubes! For about what a good integrated costs you can use what I use...the well regarded Schiit Freya, an astonishingly great sounding preamp with 2 balanc... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Here's another analogy...without good cable a cable car would plunge to the ground. Also, I have a Pangea cable running from the wall to my conditioner (and a few other "fancy" cables here and there because I do want to be as "audio hip" as possib... | |
| Level adjusting speaker drivers I own a couple of Lokis (they're amazingly inexpensive relative to how excellent they are)...one for my video rig and another for the headphone amp in my hifi rig which I sometimes put in the main system if something seems to need EQ. An EQ is use... | |
| How rare is an audiophile Ah yes...the old days of sexism and misogyny...spoken here by Real Men who seemingly don't know any women and don't have daughters...yeah...those were the days! Put on your bowler hat and go to the club...and, by the way, enjoying music through a ... | |
| How rare is an audiophile I'm not into rare audiophiles as I prefer them well done. |