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Broken hearted...magnepan and vandersteen
@kenjit So, perhaps, your task is to optimize them.The New Vandersonos and Bosenapan earbuds, brought to you by Mr Golden Ears himself, the one, the only:Kenjit!!! 
Atma-sphere Updates
Sadly, my financial situation is such that AtmaSphere's products are out of my price range. From everything I have read, both from customers who use his products, and from Ralph's responses to threads reaching across the spectrum of products on th... 
What are the current "speaker trends" in your opinions?
Guess Golden Ears doesn't like the Dutch and Dutch because they are manufactured out of phase :)(Or at least the ones he never heard at a show were built that way...)And, how could Dutch and Dutch possibly compete with Sonos...So cool what is happ... 
Best Tubes on Market today?
Hi.I had a similar problem. Humming transformer, noise from the channels. Replaced the big electrolytic caps and most of the noise went away. Then swapped out all the caps in the amp and it is close to black. Suspect I would need an AC conditioner... 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
And how about that "There is no sound signature its a myth" statement.Are you going to back up that rather "bold" statement? 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
Once again, Kenjit fails to answer any question directly.Politician perhaps???"You have opened a can of worms here you dont know what youre getting yourself into. Speaker design is a mishmash of ideas with a bit of hogwash for good measure."Direct... 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
"So what makes a DIY speaker made by a novice who has no degree, no knowledge and no experience, less good than a speaker made by a true speaker designer if in the end its just a matter of a particular signature and theres no right or wrong signat... 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
"There is no signature sound its a myth."Really? How do you figure???Harbeth, Tannoy, Klipsch, Ohm, B&W..They don't have a signature?If its not by design, then your rationale would be that the designers keep making the same mistakes over and o... 
Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics
@kenjit Dude, for real???You have argued that no designer knows how to build a speaker, now you are saying that the designers know best?And yeah, thats classic Duke! 
Tool Fear Inoculum impressions
Thank you for the post!Been curious to listen to this. More so now, and will have to be added to my "list"...While not a huge fan, I did listen to Aenima and Undertow quite a bit.My CD's have been in storage for years, and I recently ripped everyt... 
Best electrolytic capacitor
HiJust did a full re-cap of my tube amp. What caps are you asking about?The big power cans, or others?P 
On hearing and listening.
From his orator? 
On hearing and listening.
@geoffkait Agree. Try putting an omni directional, or even a directional microphone in a room where you hare having a conversation with someone, play it back later and it's really difficult to isolate the speech.We tend to "ignore" static on a rad... 
Jazz for aficionados
The Max Roach Trio featuring The Legendary HasaanI find it to be a wonderful explorationSomeone came into my listening room and commented:"Is someone practicing the piano?"Clearly, some music is not for everyone... 
Audio Research VT100 MK1 and LS15 HELP!!!
Hey,So, some thoughts.If you have some standard electrical wire - i.e. the kind that runs inside the wall - you can use a piece of the ground wire, cut it down and make a jumper wire for the XLR if using SE input. If you have any music on your pho...