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| Shopping at Goodwill anyone? electronics usually go out to the shelves near last in the sorting, testing and pricing workday.you have to go in at approx 2:30pm, and be there until about 4pm. Arriving past 4pm means you probably missed the good stuff.the pickers (which would b... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? All designers of cables were originally DIY. No exceptions.If you don't hear the difference, save your money.However, sooner or later, most audio people will hear a difference, and marvel at it.The trick is to apply the right form of reason to wha... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? You’re ruining my fun. ;) I’m taunting. Very gently taunting and making a joke, kinda thing. We make uber expensive cables. Low prices ones as well. Both with the same exotic technology that has no widespread accepted mathematical analogy, as of y... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? I think I'm gonna make some exotic cables that have custom fuses in them.Just because. | |
| Opinions re: debugging/repairing Cambridge Audio 540A amp stage to check for relay problems, you let the unit run, usually while listening on headphones. Of course, first ascertaining that the unit has the audio amplifier proper being the source point that powers the headphone jack.This depends upon the circui... | |
| Shopping at Goodwill anyone? Pioneer HPM-100’s (200 watt C series)KEF Cantata (Teak)Realistic Mach 1 (series 1 original)Too many to list so, go by brands, maybe...ParadigmPSBRotelDenonSansuiHitachiPioneerBostonAkaiSonyHarmon KardonLuxmanAiwaToshibaKefYamaha& many many oth... | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? Aside from a few very high end products, the above described integrateds seem not to exist. Why can’t I find a quality integrated? Do we just have to accept having a pile of boxes? It's an evil scheme by those dastardly expensive boutique cabl... | |
| Opinions re: debugging/repairing Cambridge Audio 540A amp stage Relays | |
| ID ing your Records Open the record cover (record removed), so it is shaped like so: ()Stick your hand in, with a short marker (small sharpie marker) and put your name or some identifying mark. Make it so it is at least half way into the record cover, so that someone... | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD I like the sharing, it puts a human face on things, a human face on the text one reads.Helps people with perspective. That is, in the final analysis, IMO and IME... fundamentally important to all these threads. It leads to less nasty projected/rea... | |
| exceptional voices of female singers (non-classical) Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? So there!Besides it's a bit of a joke, in that music is about feeding the inner barking monkey - the ego and the body's emotional core.Good luck in trying to be objective with that. Logical? Sure. No problemo. But fundamentally Objective? No point... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? I tend to agree with your assessment. I’m not really sure why certain folks, and only a few, tend to get bugged down on technical arguments which in most cases the OP didn’t even ask or care about. A more annoying but related gripe I have is some... | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement re the OP:It’s always good to remember, or discover, that the etymology of the word ’work’ is rooted in descriptives for slavery. | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable I’m slowly coming to another opinion on what forums are. It was obvious before but never so plainly as it is in some instances like this.It appears to be about trying to get people to understand how informed logic works. |