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Tone is in the fingers. That’s why a good demo guy on YouTube is worth a lot. See also, Larry Carlton playing and comparing his famous...

I bought a Sire (T7tm), a $600 guitar a few months ago. I did have it plekked, although the adjustments were tiny. It stands up to...

It seems like the high end amp/cab modeling products have kind of nailed this. I doubt people can tell the difference, at least from...

Interestingly (or not), guitar players prefer valve/tube amps, for the obvious reasons of the distortion you get when over-driven...

Roon->ROPIEEXL->RME-ADI DAC->NAD c298-> Harbeth Super HL5AE It’s mostly the new taxes he proposes (and may be unlikely to pass) that...

Previously called “Patek’s Law”. Post in thread 'Master Thread: Are Measurements Everything or Nothing?'...

I’m in a 100 year-old building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with the LR system you see in the picture/avatar to the left of this...

I think that the accepted audible differences between filters generally converge to "the treble roll-off of slow roll-off filters can be...

Not sure if this digital filter test by Archimago was ever linked, but I mentioned it in another thread today...

I’ve heard others assert that it is the one thing that *can* be heard, although commercially implemented filter differences probably...

I’ve built SoundForm, a new tool for DIY speaker builders, and it’s now ready for beta testing. I made it because this is exactly the...

Hey, I sound great in my shower.

I had this brute when I was much younger, so I have more nostalgia for this sort of look.

Guilty as charged.

1. People get used to the sound they know 2. People seek status in all pursuits 3. People are suspicious of new methods, and resistant...