xenolith
Responses from xenolith
| By far, my most significant system upgrade! Fidelium speaker cables are the most significant system upgrade of our system too. This is over 30 years of building the system. mrs. xenolith thinks so too.So does another Audiogoner who contacted me about these cables and who, out of courtesy,... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? Tanks for info surfmuz. Fascinating; does ring a distant bell... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? No, what's Bone Records? | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? Yea surfmuz, super lucky. Had a big Pink Floyd phase...probably have 50 albums...some bootlegs...there's a term you don’t hear much anymore. The one I wish I’d kept was Music From The Body, (Waters and Geesin) Capitol, green and yellow label. Got ... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? Never owned a CD player. Well, other than the ones that came with the cars. Bought about 20 CDs in my life to play in our cars. For the home stereo, have only ever had vinyl for playback. Well, and the boob toob. Own about 1200 albums, about ... | |
| The Absurdity of it All If music that enters your ears causes an emotional response in you, then your hearing is good enough. | |
| Surge protectors and power conditioners - Good idea or bad? Agree with falconquest; a balanced power supply is a great way to provide clean power. The best use a massive laminated transformer to take the incoming AC signal and divide it into two perfect 60hz signals of opposite polarity which are then sup... | |
| Second opinions — how have others (including non-audiophiles) helped you? I value the input of others for several reasons, principal among them being that I can't audition in our system the number of equipment that it would take to efficiently effect improvement in our system. I must rely on the kindness of strangers :... | |
| Second opinions — how have others (including non-audiophiles) helped you? It’s the great conundrum and paradox of audiophilia: one needs to most critically listen to achieve a system that can be heard most sanguine and with aplomb. Two other ways to achieve this: spousal commentary...won’t go into detail; all with one a... | |
| Bang for the buck vs. “money no object” cable recommendations Yep, Silversmith Fidelium are both the best bang for the buck cable and the best cost no object cable.In my opinion of course. | |
| New silversmith fidelium cable We talked about this; here’s what we concluded: While the music we were hearing was unquestionably beautiful, it wasn’t the beauty of the music that caused us to cry, it was the success of our system in convincing our brains that we were in the pr... | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? Having both my wife and I brought to tears multiple times over the last two nights by music that we've played many times before on a system that had never elicited that response from us prior to changing only the speakers cables, for me, and for h... | |
| New silversmith fidelium cable Was asked by a member to comment on these cables. My reply: I think a quote from my wife this morning says more than I ever could: "Your best audio purchase ever."Our system brought both of us to tears multiple times last night. That's never hap... | |
| New silversmith fidelium cable cried 5 times then more continuity | |
| New silversmith fidelium cable Zoiks, these are great cables! Bi-wire adapters took a bit of attention to arrange, but otherwise easy installation. Wife from kitchen says "Wow, those really do sound good!" Doesn't get better than that! :)Warming up the table and pulling favo... |