moonwatcher
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| Politics and Music Most musicians, especially rock era musicians, and even later day bluegrass and Americana music artists are decidedly liberal if they are political at all. This uncritical "group-think" is pervasive among them. I note that Bela Fleck of Bela Fleck... | |
| Ridiculous sale If someone with deep pockets is desperate enough or clueless enough (i.e. pretty stupid), let them buy it at that price. The thing is, with more on the way (eventually) that buyer will NEVER recoup anywhere near what he paid for it - if they ever ... | |
| Streaming vs Physical Media Love streaming. The convenience and choices and sound quality are amazing. However, all of it can be taken away from you at a moment's notice by lawyers or labels. I do have a few CDs that aren't on any streaming platform and likely never will be... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? Acoustic Research AR9: 52.75" (1340mm) and 129.8 lbs (59kg), each. Never want anything larger other than maybe Magnepans some day. | |
| All New Yamaha NS-2000A Loudspeakers Are On The Market Specs say 34 Hz-65 kHz (-10 dB). Not very meaningful. I mean -10dB??? How about +/-1.5dB? But I won't hold my breath. Then we have far too many manufacturers of late not even specifying ANY +/- dB ratings...just giving some wild guess freque... | |
| All New Yamaha NS-2000A Loudspeakers Are On The Market wolfie62, Physics, is physics, is physics. Most speakers all look the same because they employ the same engineering design principles - radiating drivers in a box (except for say Maggies and others that aren't sealed or ported boxes) But yeah, I'... | |
| Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000 Let us know what you end up getting and what your thoughts are on them. Thanks. | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? Eventually buy a Milty Zerostat 3 Anti-Static Gun. About $99. I’ve had one since the 1980s and still use it. It works despite naysayers who must not be using it correctly. Can make a big difference in how much dust your records attract AFTER clean... | |
| Onkyo has filed for bankruptcy Will be interesting to see how this all plays out. I'm not aware that Sharp is known for anything "great". I never owned Onkyo, but it was nice having them around putting some price pressure on other companies like Pioneer, Sony, Denon, Yamaha, a... | |
| Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000 Check out Jay Iyagi’s (YouTube) build and review of the CSS. He says it compares favorably with his Sonus Faber Lumina II speakers but are probably flatter in that they don’t have the slight midbass bump that the Sonus do. But I’m still confused.... | |
| Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000 OK, you have a fairly large room. But the main part of that equation is where will you be sitting when you are doing your listening? How far away will you be from the speakers? Small bookshelf speakers can play loud but they’ll never sound "large... | |
| Bluesound Node 2 vs. Node (2021) After watching numerous YouTube reviews of both of the Node 2i and the newer "Node", it seems that any upgrade would be slight. They all tout that the new Node has eARC, is built more modular (probably makes it cheaper to manufacture and service),... | |
| Suggestions for a Phono Preamp. BTW, I did a search on MOON 110LP v2 Phono Preamplifier and found it at one site (ListenUp) Clearance / Open Box for $359. I have no idea of that site's warranty, etc., so do some research if that sounds like something you might want to stretch yo... | |
| Suggestions for a Phono Preamp. In your price range, I've heard very good things about the Schiit Mani which has some great adjustability in Gain, Impedance (most MM cartridges suggest 47K Ohms), and low frequency filter roll off if needed. It is $149 (dang inflation). Obviou... | |
| How Electricity Actually Works pingstonsmile, there is a YouTube channel called Kathy Loves Physics & History that goes into such things as why most of the world uses 50 Hz 220V and the US and some others use 60 Hz 120V. All of it is very interesting and she is writing ... |