Mnyb wrote: > > The really stupid part is that I'm a person who should know better being > an electrical engineer ... >
Same here! In fact, I decided to get into EE because of my interest in the hobby back in the 1970s. Mnyb wrote: > > i think my own involvement in the general sceptic movement actually made > me see the errors in my own ways . > Same here again! Here are some of my previous blunders: In the mid 1980s through the early 1990s, I bought: Linn Sondek turntable Magnepan MGIII speakers Upon arriving home, I read the manual, only to find that they recommended sending the ribbon tweeters back to the factory once a year for rebuild. According to the manual, "It's the price we pay for the highest quality sound reproduction". Of course, none of the reviews of the speakers mentioned this, nor did anyone at the place that sold them. I wonder why? Speaking of the place that sold them, it was an audio shop in Woodland Hills, CA whose name I can't recall. The people there would not even help me get the beasts into my car. Two years later, the speakers started making a buzzing sound due to delamination of the "voice coil" from the mylar diaphragm to which they are glued. When they worked properly, they did sound good though. Krell preamp Krell KSA-100 class A amp Great heater for those hot summer days! Various audiophile CD players. At least three of these died after one year's use. In the early 2000s, I bought a universal player when my current player died. I got into DVD-A back when Fry's Electronics was selling them for $12 apiece. Some of them sound really good, like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. But these are remixes. I have since ripped them to FLAC using DVD-A Explorer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andy_c's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3128 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103238 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
