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Where do you draw the line???

There are many interesting threads here about innumerable topics where people share many different opinions. If the truth be known I think many of us are still open to suggestion or opposing points of view regarding most things, but there must be some issues about which we are unwilling to budge.

In your own mind what is the concession you are unwilling to make?

For example; many people feel tubes are superior to solid state equipment. I have owned tube gear, and have several friends who I respect that still own tube gear, but I will not concede that solid state equipment is inferior to tubes.

Another concession I cannot make is the superiority of CDs to vinyl. I have a good CDP and have listened to better than my own, and in my experience LPs still are the hands-down winner for sound quality.

I have and like Krell equipment, and have been taken to task because of it. I'm still not selling it to buy another brand.

The question is: Regardless of the opinion of others what views or opinions are you unwilling to change???

Lets not fight! This is supposed to be fun!!!
nrchy
twl
3,251 posts
 
Hi Nate. My position is that I will use whatever is possible to get the best sound I can find. Yes, I am very opinionated as to what sounds best to me, but if there was something on the other side of the fence that sounded better, then you can bet I'd go right after it.

That being said, analog and tubes is where it's at for me, until something shows itself to be better.
ben_campbell
1,164 posts
 
SACD is "probably" only superior to CD when replayed by equipment at the very top end.
I can't hear it at the moderate end and since I haven't heard the top players I can't deny it's true....yet.
seandtaylor99
1,262 posts
 
1) I will never believe that speaker cables can ever be directional. It's AC .. I don't care about crystalline structure of the metal ... it's AC.
2) That rap is music, or some sort of legitimate art form. No it isn't, it's noise. :-)
3) SACD is about sound quality ... no it isn't .. it's about making you buy all of your albums all over again.

I think I'm open to persuasion in most other areas.
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rar1
1,578 posts
 
Nate ... great idea for a thread.

1. I will not accept that LP's are worth the bother. I spent too many years in the 70's & 80's making cassette tape copies of LP's, because LP's were so easily scratched up.
2. I will not accept that there is not a market for audiophile quality stereo receivers.
3. I believe that pop music peaked somewhere between 1966 & 1968. It doesn't get much better than Gary Puckett & the Union Gap's "Woman, Woman."
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
I will never change my belief that the RIAA is a bunch of money grubbing sharks, doing the bidding of even hungrier money grubbing sharks.
I will never change my belief that the best way to fight the RIAA is to purchase only used vinyl over 30 years old.
I will never change my belief that stereo equipment makes sound waves appear as if by magic.
I have come to believe that yes indeed, as TAS used to crow, that CD's are a curse upon the land, and need to be banned as the work of evil minded con artists, wanting us to buy the same old albums all over again. (I still have 900 CD's and gave at least that many to my local library).
I believe that if I don'r like a CD, I should allow others to use it for free, and the best way to do that is to donate it to a public library, then I am screwing the RIAA and doing a good (legal) deed at the same time. (and for those whom itemize taxes, the donation is tax deductible!)
I believe that I will buy some stupid SACD's, when they actually put out some new music, that uses the formats capability, that I don't already have. (and I got like a dozen SACDs... I am not consistent am I?)
I believe that Dakinis dance on my cables when I have been a good girl.
I do not want to overwhelm some folks, so I will stop here!!!
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