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https://buckandanne.bandcamp.com/album/a-sides Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek "a-sides"

Looks like a fugly new MG...

Pff, those Chinese sweatchop sheds...

Half of them didn't even think...

Another account of audiophilia taken too far: (Un)healthy Obsessions Rogier van Bakel | Apr 15, 2024 During a ferocious storm one recent Saturday, firefighters knocked on my door and urged my family and me to evacuate. The gale had smashed loose a neighbor's large propane tank and plunged it...

Deep down we are animals, no matter how tame/civilized.

Overpopulation could be playing a part, also the WWW.

Amir must have money, he's bought a Klippel and an AP which together cost as much as a small house in many parts of the UK.

It would be great if you could share those measurements.

Audiophile Style's owner has said in the forum that he doesn't comment on comparative or absolute performance or produce negative reviews for fear of libel or being barred from accessing products for review. What's the point of reviewing if you can't do either?

Could you explain what you mean by "back EMF mixing with the (amplified) signal"? To the best of my knowledge negative-feedback actually reduces the effects of back-EMF by increased damping but I am always willing to learn. And Stereophile's measurements of no-feedback amplifiers using a dummy...

By the importer/distributor after a bad review.

I have read a US critic saying he was once barred from reviewing B'n'O speakers.

Even though one can roughly predict the tonal balance of a speaker in a room from measurements (Erin's reviews prove that), one cannot predict the stereo effect produced by a given speaker in a particular room (I do think it is possible to use prior listening experience to ballpark the kind of...

My view and experience as an amateur and end user is that the speaker/room interaction (which you describe as "amount of delay, diffuseness, and reduction in volume of multiple reflections") has the most impact on the stereo effect, and I’ve read expert work and comments which seem to support my...