jasonbourne52
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| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... Cable companies use clever advertising to prey upon the gullible and insecure to gain marketing advantage! | |
| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... Scientific discussion will not dissuade the "true believers" from their beliefs about qualities they attribute to wire. | |
| Hagerman cable burn If you believe that wire needs to be "burnt in" boy do I have a nice bridge for sale! | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F Add those same Marantz 9's to a pair of KLH Nine full-range ESL's and you have a killer combination circa 1962! | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F A nicely restored pair of Marantz Model 9 mono tube amps can today still compete with any four and five figure tube amps! | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F Case in point: my vintage 1973 Altec Stonehenge I's vs. the Tekton DI's! How about some Zeppelin and Ten Years After as playback choices? Maybe some Pink Floyd and Hendrix, too! Both speakers look like contenders that can "rock out"! | |
| Hi end audio equip sounds better today than in decades past due to tech - T/F Nope! The "good stuff" of the past can still hold its own with any of today's touted offerings by the "golden ears" crowd! The idea of continual forward progress in HiFi is an illusion benefiting magazine advertising revenue! | |
| Lack of Female Representation I met a woman audiophile once! Back in '78 or '79 at one of the fall NYC HiFi shows. She was a rep for Polk. It was evening. We were alone in someone's exhibition room and we bonded over a discussion about audio in general as we looked over a nice... | |
| thoughts on the bose 501 speakers I listened to the 501's in a home system back in '75. Wide open very dimensional soundstage! I liked what I heard! "Legend Of A Mind" and the rest of In Search Of The Lost Chord by the Moody Blues. Maybe the best speaker ever from Bose? | |
| Us: hobbyists vs perfectionists vs aural epicureans vs rampant consumers vs bad Buddhists? Anybody with enough means can pull out a credit card and buy whatever new unit touted by the "golden ears" crowd. What fun is that! | |
| Us: hobbyists vs perfectionists vs aural epicureans vs rampant consumers vs bad Buddhists? I'm in the Epicurean camp. It has to be rare - and used - before I will buy it! Two recent arrivals: Sony 7000ES DVD player (formerly TOTL) and the Koss ESP-6 electrostatic headphones (with case and adapter). Both uncommon! Several years ago I bo... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? By judicious shopping on eBay I have over the past 5 years been able to buy again secondhand most of the above gear - for comparable or less prices! It does still sound as good as it did 40+ years ago! So maybe today's used market is the key to ac... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? Back in the days of yore (1976-78) when I had my first good corporate job at 24 buying HiFi gear of quality was far more affordable than today. Here's what I bought from my local audio store: AGI 511 preamp ($450), Son of Ampzilla ($420), Mitsubis... | |
| CD v Streamed Time is money to these corporations! Bandwidth is finite. So it is logical to squeeze as much data into a limited space - i.e. compression! | |
| Why do we want to distortions? Who said tube amps sound better? |