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| Anyone spend more on their system than their car? Stingreen; are you using Quickies and the Quicksilver Full Pre? Which speakers? Just curious. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Whitecamaross-how about posting a pic or two of your back-wall showing your speakers and the wall in between and then one further back from behind your listening chair? Re-reading your OP I see references to multi-channel and HT. Do you have a fla... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Whitecamaross- you have an ARC Ref 6 and you are hesitant to try it with the Ref 150se that will inherently be a great match and your hesitation is based on spending $900 (not 1300) after 3000 hrs of listening? In the context of your other expendi... | |
| Aurender A10 setup - loading from CDs XLD makes it easy. When you burn the disc a window pops up with a tab up top for "Obtain Metadata". 95% of the time it recovers the cover art and stores it with the music (each song presumably) such that the iPad app shows the cover art. Aurender ... | |
| Aurender A10 setup - loading from CDs For the last two years I have been using XLD (free download) rather than iTunes on my MBP to burn discs. The process remains cumbersome but do-able. Maybe the following will help, maybe not. You tell me. First off, make sure your Aurender is ON. M... | |
| Weakest link http://www.audioresearch.com/ContentsFiles/Hierarchy.pdfSays it all. Start at the source, evaluate, and work your way down the chain. | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia simao, well said and a few posts above I tried-not as well-to express the same thing. Music triggers something in our brains that is addictive to us, but above that, fidelity or quality is necessary to feel what we need to feel. We all know people... | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy the only real trick I've found is if you need more PRAT in your system, the speaker wires need to run downhill all the way to the spkr terminals. or at least put a chair in the way so the last part of the trip is all down hill. Trust me. its magic... | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia fsonicsmith,I'm in the business, and believe me, watch enthusiasts complain about prices of timepieces and service plenty, as well as the cost of straps and bracelets.REAL watch people? That means Patek Phillipe Vacheron, Jaeger-Lecoultre, IWC, an... | |
| Interesting article on audiophiles and audiophilia It's thought-provoking. It may be meant for non-audiophiles, but it prompts a fair bit of introspection upon this audiophile. My own belief is that we audiophiles at our very core rely on music to alter our sense of the World, just like endurance ... | |
| Anyone spend more on their system than their car? Do you like your Challenger? I live in Central Ohio and drive a '17 Golf GTI Sport to which I added an Audeson amp/speaker/sub kit that cost a small fortune. Btw, I have spent far more on my sound system-my preamp and amp alone cost nearly the sam... | |
| No Vocals from Grateful Dead RSD LP Now if you can just get rid of the endless guitar noodling you might end up with a decent record! | |
| Upgrade Quandary: Ref 75SE vs Ref 150 (non SE) On the other hand :-)- it deserves noting that Warren Gehl of ARC uses the Ref 150se in his reference system that he uses for ARC's final check-subjective auditioning-of every piece that leaves the factory. Mikey Fremer's two episode video of his ... | |
| Upgrade Quandary: Ref 75SE vs Ref 150 (non SE) I suspect that the 75se has a sweeter midrange and an overall clearer presentation than the 150 due to the simpler circuit-ARC has noted that even in the context of the new line-up, there is something special about the 75se. The question is whethe... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I screwed up showing that I was quoting. Not hard to figure out though😁 |