john1
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| What class of amplifier has the most high definition sound ? I have heard many SOA contenders & with a compatible pair of speakers nothing has ever matched the purity of an OTL. I remember the first time I heard a Futterman. It was certainly dirty sounding (enough to disqualify it in many ways), Even... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... The question ignores that it is a dance between amplifier & speakers & really all other components in the chain. he analogy created is who is the best dancer of all time in & of themselves & in combination with all dance partners... | |
| Do you ever do this before you listen? Getting your ears cleaned by a doctor every few years will definitely give you the results you're looking for. Doing it yourself just pushes the wax deeper (even as some appear to come out) & creates a real danger of hurting the eardrum. | |
| Used Market Savings vs. The Dealer Experience Used & new gear exist in an incredibly necessary, self-propelling, incredibly virtuous circle. One supports & feeds the other. The used gear democratizes audio & allows many an entry point otherwise unavailable. It also gives new op... | |
| Brilliant Pebbles, a new tweak, cheaper than high end cables. I roll my eyes when Quantum Physics is used to justify specific audio (or other technical advances). Yes, the transistor was wholly invented by applying QP principles, but that's why there has never been a nearly complete, in-depth understanding ... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. tomcy6 quotes Valin saying positive things about digital & so he does while simultaneously criticizing the same HW for major soundstaging issues that analog does not have, again proclaiming it is overall the better more truthful medium. Someo... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. Cleeds & others here point to the issues of the "evidence" presented by the question. The virtues of analog are an inconvenient truth for those not at all prepared to do genuine comparative testing & do not trust or have developed their in... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD I’ve found its very easy to convince yourself that digital is better. It can be made to sound good enough by any reasonable (& some unreasonable standards) with on occasion some really excellent qualities, that can easily make it make it irres... | |
| Personal vs. Market Values In point of fact, it was 12 characters making the mistake far easier to make. The concentration on only 4 of those characters, the depth of sensitivity to them, the extreme reluctance to put them into any kind of context & then again confirmed... | |
| Personal vs. Market Values I tried cut & pasting erik_squires but this forum doesn't allow that easily & to be placed organically on the page. I then spelt the name incorrectly & if that was interpreted as to be an offence, it was not. The body of my message an... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... From different posters & my response""Also, who is to say something is "overpriced"By definition the market. If you're having trouble selling it the market has authoritatively spoken. If you don't like it you're not entitled to say it's not ... | |
| Personal vs. Market Values To answer eric_squires concerns, The first quote refers to people selling for reasons they do not themselves fully understand & become arbitrary about it & therefore unreasonable about the price they ask for & insist upon. They know t... | |
| Personal vs. Market Values As far as it goes this has the potential to be a fascinating & terribly valid question. So let's take it where it's dying to go. "Personal vs. Market Values" necessarily also means Market vs Personal values. This is where it gets (too often... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... There's a truly profound & deep as the ocean issue at play here. The incontrovertible source of the reflexivity embodied in the often stated sentiment, "I'm not giving it away" needs to be understood. The resistance of many sellers to doing s... | |
| KEF blades 2 or Dynaudio C4? Why on earth have you restricted yourself to only these two polar opposites? You've got very different aesthetics being presented. The aluminium the Kef driver is composed of never really goes away as a slightly astringent colouration (despite Ke... |