prndlus
Responses from prndlus
| Sat front row at the symphony... When I go to Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center in Philadephia and sit in my favorite seat to listen to the Philadelphia Orchestra, I realize that 137 years after the original Edison phonograph audio technology still hasn’t quite caught up with una... | |
| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? The Buddha teaches us that when we attach ourselves to ’things’, we will eventually become disappointed and saddened, because a belief in the permanence of things is misplaced; things fade and die over time, and they loose their luster in our imag... | |
| Is It Common For Questions About Gear For Sale To Go Unanswered? If an ad for a used piece of equipment doesn’t have a statement of its condition, or the statement tells nothing meaningful, or tells the obvious - I’m gone. Same thing if the seller doesn’t respond to questions - I’m gone. If a seller cannot co... | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? Whenever I see speakers on stands with spikes - and I have no experience with spikes - I wonder if they’re vibrating some of their energy into the stand itself, and thus losing some of their refinement. A pair of Ohm Walsh II’s - and Magnepan too... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? The notion that manufacturers secretly deliberately design their products to degrade, but only just enough to not cross a very fine threshold of degradation to avoid becoming obvious poor quality - is simply not realistic. Often the question of w... | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? To this day I have no idea why the seller priced a 9.5 out of 10 Rotel RHA-10 preamp at $300, but I do know it wasn’t stolen. I hooked it up, turned it up, then looked it up; there was only one on sale in all the world, in Germany for $1300. | |
| un-becoming an audiophile At a certain point, while reading the forums and learning about audio, I realized I did not want to be an audiophile, just as you’ve put it, to the point where it intrudes on simple enjoyment of music. By then it was too late, I had already becom... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? In my experience, the minimum basic ‘requirement,’ or ‘necessity,’ or, ‘thing that’s going enable a system to sound more towards the best it can sound,’ is 100% OFC copper throughout, and cable gauge matters too - 18-22AWG interconnects, 8, 10 or ... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time After I posted, I remembered Bob Newhart on the subject. It’s been so long, I must paraphrase: Many people enjoy country music. Myself, I don’t care for it. But I don’t wish to denigrate those who do like it. And for those of you who do… [long p... | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? It was, after all, the Age of Radio. I discovered that I had to go back thirty years and more to find a fine tuner. And there are some gems among them. The Tuner Information Center website (fmtunerinfo dot com) is a valuable resource. Is there... | |
| Opinion: Modern country is the worst musical genre of all time A country show came on the radio. Between songs, they played a snippet of a recording from a movie? a recording? a variety show? I don’t know. Man: Tell me, what kinds of music do you have? Woman: Why, we have BOTH kinds, Country AND Western. | |
| Previous Ownership...does it matter to you? An item that’s traded numerous times can indicate there’s something wrong with it. For instance, there’s a Bedini amp that’s been repeatedly bought and sold, same serial number; it’s been bouncing around for a few years now. Otherwise, the numbe... | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? The man I bought my amp from imagined he was boasting, but I was appalled, the list went on and on; he had spent - by my rough estimate - upwards of three hundred thousand dollars over the previous twenty years on dozens of things, and yet he was ... | |
| UPS. Friend Or Foe? I’ve used UPS many times without a problem, and when I read these horror stories I wonder if I’ve been playing Russian Roulette. Whenever I ship, I always overpack using bubble wrap, solid styrofoam and double box. - pureclarity I bought a CD pl... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? I’ve had the same problem. Amplifier and preamplifier quality and compatibility solved it, though all the other necessary ducks were in a row first, quality FM tuner, speaker placement, speaker isolation, cables, etc. |