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| binding post break in You had high expectations when you replaced your old binding posts and it's possible that you've placed too much pressure on the new posts. As a result rather than strut their stuff they've withdrawn into their inner binding post self. When bindin... | |
| Tweaks when building a listening room? Whatever you do, don't try to make the room anechoic. Anechoic rooms are not intended as music listening rooms. | |
| How can you not have multichannel system the audiophile hobby endeavors to reproduce the live event, or so I believeDon't agree. The audiophile goal is to accurately reproduce whatever is embedded in the media. The recording engineer and producer may, or may not, try to reproduce the liv... | |
| Would you buy used headphones? Used headphones are the 37th leading vector for head lice transmission. Be afraid, be very afraid. | |
| How do YOU organize your iTunes library? Within reason there's no right or wrong way to organize playlists. Whatever works or doesn't work for someone really doesn't have any bearing on what works for someone else.I wish there were more dedicated fields for organizing. For instance, havi... | |
| Acquiring an awesome system, but how? You already have an awesome system! Is your brain really telling you otherwise? From what I can tell you already know how to do it quite well. | |
| How do YOU organize your iTunes library? Primarily by artist, genre or rating. If I want a specific album I'll do it on the fly. Approximately 350 playlists. | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? You've played with speaker position and you've dealt with the first reflection points (including floor bounce?) and in your opinion it sounds good. If that's the case, then don't go any further. It's not that you couldn't improve the sound quality... | |
| Dimly lit room: Plasma, LCD, or DLP A 42" class plasma will consume about the same amount of electricity for 3 to 4 hours of daily use as a modern full size refrigerator consumes in 24 hours. The WSJ says to add $200/year to your electric bill for the purchase of each large plasma (... | |
| The necessity of a plinth Your analogy between a turntable plynth (water down the drain) and enclosure-less loudspeakers is faulty. A loudspeaker is a transducer, a turntable is not. The cartridge is the transducer. So, maybe the question should be "does a cartridge need a... | |
| vander 5A, Revelsalon2, sf elipsa or magico v3? With any of the speakers you mention I believe your system would be somewhat unbalanced. You might consider upgrading your source components before or as part of getting new speakers. The AP Virgo is a very good speaker and I just think you could ... | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in Armstrod, the approach you and Albertporter describe could actually be as good an approach as exist for determining overall system satisfaction, but it is not the only way and it certainly isn't foolproof. Short-term A/B listening is the best way ... | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in Amstrod, simultaneously comparing two identical components with different usage hours would be revealing. I actually believe it would show burn-in as real, especially for mechanical transducers (speakers, cartridges, mics, etc.). | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in The discussion is veering towards the absurd. Are people seriously arguing that they can accurately compare the changes in the sound of high quality systems when separated by hundreds of hours of actual listening time? It can't be done. Memory is ... | |
| Village Vanguard session with Bill Evans This is an article from "The New Yorker" about the gig.Miles Davis' take on Evan's playing -- "like crystal notes or sparkling water". |