drubin
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| Taking audio too seriously? Hard to imagine Drubin how or why someone with your attitude towards music would ever get interested in audio to begin with. I like sound, period. For good or ill, music seems to be the easiest was to consume sounds. Some of my favorites are Jacin... | |
| Taking audio too seriously? There is an underlying assumption in audiophile circles and here on Audiogon that equipment as an end in itself is a bad thing, or is somehow "lesser" than the lofty pursuit of music. I don't think that's particularly fair. If someone wants to pur... | |
| Taking audio too seriously? Hobbies are vehicles for acting out our neuroses. I suppose it's reasonably harmless as those things go. | |
| Reference 3A Decapo "i" sounds shrilly A somewhat forward, perhaps "shouty" midrange is a common criticism of the the decapo i, which I used to own. You should be able to tame it with various approaches mentioned here. One other to try would be speaker height. How high are your stands?... | |
| A review Bound for Sound for Pass Labs fans Ah, thanks for setting the record straight. It was your post about this some long time ago that I mis-remembered. | |
| A review Bound for Sound for Pass Labs fans Wasn't the 350 supposed to have been the sweet spot in the pre-.5 lineup?I wonder how much the eye-candy and impressing his friends had to do with the positive review. | |
| member system photos??? Great post up above by Tireguy. Nice to see him post again.We paid $59K when we bought it many years ago.Let's update that and say it's now $259K. What amazes me is, how can you even build a home for that amount I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, ... | |
| Your favorite Summertime Top Down Cruising music? Steely Dan: My Old School, Reelin' in the Years, etc.(Is there gas in the car?) | |
| Integrated amp: VAC, DK ref, Ayon Sunrise or Karan Are the Magicos a 1 ohm load? | |
| Integrated amp: VAC, DK ref, Ayon Sunrise or Karan In my opinion, the Magico Minis need more power than any of these integrateds can deliver. If you have this $20,000 pair of speakers, find a way to to get separates and go for high power. | |
| Stylus Force Guages - why extreme accuracy? Tracking force affects SRA, so adjustments by ear are important, right?: | |
| Not wasting my time on new Digital Both CD and DVD offered advantages to consumers that made them a no-brainer to adopt once software became plentiful and hardware prices dropped. With the new DVD formats, the advantages are clearly less but they are more compelling than just "bett... | |
| Von Schweikert VR4 SR IV The best speakers of various technologies can sometimes approach certain aspects of the sound of unamplified music, e.g., horns with dynamics, 'stats with...whatever. So you picks your poison I suppose. | |
| Von Schweikert VR4 SR IV And every one of them being passed through a horn speaker.Assuming there is sound reinforcement involved. | |
| Not wasting my time on new Digital While it's not clear whether HD DVD or Blu-ray will win out, one of them surely will. Because unlike SACD and DVD-A, these new formats have compelling benefits for the mass market. |