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That old bug returned. Sometimes creation of new threat not going to work. The replies still work. I will fix it soon.
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IMO, it is to Camus' eternal credit that he saw through Stalin, and I like to think his "standards" excluded the purely banal along with "too personal" Music. Romy, if all this means you have found a way to enjoy Bach at work, good for you.Best regar...
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Hmmm... There have been quite a few posts at GSC regarding the "It" in Music, and how It might be received and recognized by the listener. As I recall, there was agreement that one might enjoy Music presented in any number of ways, including "low-fi"...
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Enjoyed/enjoy Camus, but I am OK with you remaining cryptic, since this seems to be important to you. In case you care, I don't understand your idea of "vertical endeavor", so I can't use that to contrast to your way. As for tools, nobody is using th...
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Thanks for sharing, Romy. No doubt there are people who still want to know which hammer and chisel you are using. Looking at (even ancient) partially finished sculpture, there are indications that sculptors used different tools and methods, depending...
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Wojtek dropped some interesting thoughts about "savage sound" on the "My/Your Audio Year In Summary" board, and I am trying to rekindle the "system specific" aspects of that discussion here. Perhaps some Music-specific stuff "should" wind up on the M...
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Wojtek, I kissed off the idea of reproducing someone else's system with a pile of parts many years ago, and my own process has long included "adapting" the stuff I drag into the house, to get as much of what I actually want as I can. I think I told t...
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Wojtek, not sure what you mean by "primitive", but at present I suppose any efforts I make with hi-fi relate to what I am getting from the recorded Music I listen to, and (obviously) my system reflects my own aesthetics at any given time, and my resu...
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Perhaps I was lucky to have burned out on vintage horns long before I found this site, although I did do a second round of SETs before I went on my own tangent. I refer copy cats back to "quasi-complimentary" amps and leave it at that. Warning: ALL v...
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Romy, you are The Cat, but I am certainly curious, myself. While I can't and won't try to speak for others, I will observe that it is simply sharing thoughts that has resulted in this site (that you so generously maintain). There are plenty of other ...
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Wojtek, are you old enough to remember the old "portable" KLH FM/record players (AKA, Dorm Darlings)? Tons on ebay. A proven way to get more by asking for less. Spark a blunt and Hi Ho, Silver!pAUL s...
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Steve, probably no help, but FWIW I have used the Hi-Fi News Analogue Test LP for a long while. If you need continuous pink noise, how about a signal generator?Paul S...
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Happy 2026! Looking back on 2025 hi-fi, it was all about
integrating and developing new speakers for “more stereo”. Naturally (this
being hi-fi), as my stereo improved my mono has slipped by comparison. Not to
say the mono is “bad”, rather all...
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Thanks, Robin. I actually do most of my listening while lying in bed, at night. I set up the radio where I can reach it (no remote), and I get the stations I want well enough with the built in antenna. I did not find much online, but I was hoping I c...
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Thanks, Robin. I actually do most of my FM listening at night, while lying in bed. Initial radio set-up was based on best reception without headphones or their cables, and just using the radio's built-in antenna; easy-peasy, as I told in my initial p...
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For a while now I have been using Sennheiser HD650
headphones for listening to FM via my Crane CC2E radio. This is the first time
I have used headphones for this purpose, and I am mildly annoyed that the
headphone cable gets involved with rece...
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There are several posts scattered around this website concerning the cables that connect my Ortofon T3000 SUT to my K&K phono stage. People who use SUTs for their LO MC phono cartridges know how critical (and often troublesome) this link can be i...
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No reason to think that any hi-fi component available to end users one at at time will be 100% "hand made", or that QC will keep it all about consistent sound and music. Here is a scratch at the surface of Belkin I found "informative". Pick any cable...
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As you note, discussions of hi-fi "ambience" beg for "air quotes". It has been ironic (and typical of hi-fi) for me that "SET bass" foregoes both power and extention as it does "a good job" with the texture of the LF that it does do. Is it "enough"? ...
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For quite a while I have been spinning the idea of “ambience”,
broadly speaking, as it relates to hi-fi. One closely related idea I am stuck
on is “how much of what sort of ambience is correct” for given music that is “played
back”? It has see...
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My friend Mark dropped by on short notice on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. He had told me via text a week earlier that he had finally heard Bruckner’s 4th Symphony (live, in Seattle), and I was glad to hear he was taken with it. S...
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Well, prices for buzzed-about earbuds seem pretty silly to me, but to each his own, I guess. And if car audio has fallen off it's earlier peak pace, yet some people are yet spending more than ever for more of whatever it is they are hearing (or seein...
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Since I don't frequent and only rarely visit other audio sites, I have only fuzzy notions about what sort of audio (if any) gets others going these days. Meanwhile, when Romy takes a break, so does this site. If forced to guess, I'd say "most audio p...
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Wojtek, I thought the vintage and pro guys built shrines to the big JBL/Altec compression drivers? For many years I dreamed of owning 375s, but I could never afford them, and at some point I understood that crossovers and horns and ancillary equipmen...
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I just realized that I simply don't understand why Bill's Auro or stereo "should" make the same (audible) bass. Why should that be?Paul S...
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For a long time I have sold the idea that audio changes using different topologies can happen by degrees, and what is unsaid (but pretty much implied) is that different topologies might "overlap" (+/-) in terms of audible results. "Audible Results" i...
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Well, Congratulations, Bill! Most of the audio pros I've communed with are dead now, but ALL of them were early adopters of digital and DSP, and they never looked back. Most of them finally stopped trying to convince me that RTA and shaping are the m...
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Per Yates (then Pound), the centre cannot hold. It was just a matter of time before the other cable elevator dropped. Just tell me - please - that we're not talking about a 45 SET driving the 12".Paul S...
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Good job, Anthony! First Class installation! How low do you run your lowest S2s, again?Best regards,Paul S...
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Rainy weather often makes for good electricity here, and I (finally) moved two large speakers out from behind (and to the outside) of The Loudspeakers. Although I had long since blocked the vents and covered the drivers, they are big, after all. I li...
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If I was (nominally) surprised to think my amps were running under 30W playing Music via The Loudspeakers, imagine how baffled I am to learn (by actually reading the manual...) that the "halfway point" (-20 dB) on the meter is 3W at 8 Ohms (6W at 4 O...
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