stuartk
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| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong Why is it that such opinions are most often delivered with a large helping of condescension? It's as much about the writer's "wisdom"(ego) vs. "audiophools" as it is about the gear-- perhaps more. | |
| Guess who has new speakers in their lab? Let's see... Jay, of all people, acquires more, really expensive audio toys. What a surprise! Apparently, we're supposed to get REALLY excited about this. Why? For no reason other than it's Jay, apparently. No harm in being a fanboy, I guess.... | |
| Anybody have Experience with Alta Audio Alyssa Speaker @tjraubacher So, what's next in your search??? Are you lucky enough to live near to a Joseph dealer who has Pulsars in stock? I'm not ;o\ I contacted Joseph and was told they have no dealers in N. CA ! | |
| Anybody have Experience with Alta Audio Alyssa Speaker @csmgolf It sounded like the midrange driver did not correctly meet the tweeter making vocals seem recessed / distant / veiled. There was a suckout that just didn't work for me. The Stereophile measurements of the Alyssa not only show the sucko... | |
| Dickie Betts died earlier today at 80 years of age I recall an interview in which he said "my sh*t is so simple, anyone could play it". Such humility from a guy who was able to convincingly share guitar duties with Skydog! No small feat! I’ve always regarded his solo on Stormy Monday as a masterf... | |
| A good cd transport for my Chord HugoTT2 DAC with Chord M-Scaler I went from 260D to Jay's cdt2mklll. I don't know whether this is technically accurate way to describe the difference I heard but it sounded like the Jay's simply gleaned more data from the disc. The difference was not subtle. I'd be sorely te... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @daledeee1 Have you heard Ripe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QpoQRIVTtA | |
| Am I right for this forum? @snilf Simple question: how often, when listening to music, are you distracted by thoughts about the sound of your system -- especially thoughts tinged with dissatisfaction? If you really are a "pure" music lover, who doesn’t fixate on sonics, ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister Jazz is way more powerful than we may think because it can transform any piece of music in something different and not less beautiful, proving to us that music is more than the sums of his parts. Beautifully said! | |
| Anybody have Experience with Alta Audio Alyssa Speaker @tjraubacher Just found the Stereophile follow-up review, responding to H. Reichart’s original : https://www.stereophile.com/content/alta-audio-alyssa-loudspeaker-jim-austin-december-2020 What seems odd, given what YouTube reviewers have repor... | |
| FAKE NEWS - NEGATIVE REVIEWS NOT ALLOWED!! ... and now, with great fanfare, he's announced there is no censorship! | |
| Qualities Of An End-game System @hilde45 New experiences changed my feelings. They alerted me to richer experiences I could strive for. I suppose the statement is still true, but I made the mistake of thinking I felt something capable of ending my search and I was wrong. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @mahgister Another excellent late-period Mariano: "Savannah Samurai" ! | |
| I don't get it...Exile on main Street-Blue @tylermunns "If something doesn’t move you, it doesn’t move you. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s entirely possible that at some point in life, it will" ...and it's equally possible it won't, but as the man says, "there's nothing wro... | |
| I don't get it...Exile on main Street-Blue @krelldog The following may be seem elementary/obvious to you. If so, feel free to ignore it. I’d suggest appreciating and liking are two different things and when it comes to esthetics, the former does not necessarily lead to the latter. What... |