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I vote for an AM radio at a barbershop. A place with linoleum floors, a few molded fiberglass chairs, a stack of Field & Stream...

Stage Accompany 8535 - Out of production, and above your given $ range, but I do own a pair, and they're lovely...

"And this is the 128 channel Neve console; it's priceless, really..." (Waves tea cup over it)

Balanced cables only give 3db extra headroom (and thats even assuming that the circuitry is balanced). Cables and balanced vs unbalanced...

The sunsetting of DIP packaging is going to be the end of us amateur solder slingers, eh? I built an ET using Merlin's...

Have you looked at the Engineer's Thumb?

Just my personal take (I've started and run several businesses though not in audio): Hifi as such is dying. Go to any of the audio shows...

Latency will come from buffers within the devices (Switches, routers, streamers etc). Not from the connections between them.

Multi-mic mixed recordings might sound great and be highly entertaining but as as noted, it's all just an illusion, not anything that...

Agree. Here are some additions and a few predictions. 1. The consumer side can afford obsolescence for low price items. Young people...

I found a paper (link dumped in the Roon thread) that shows that Chinese first-language speakers can kind of make out tonal events -6 to...

> claim that he can hear filter difference down to almost -200dB This amuses me. -200dB what? u? V? FS? That's something raised to...

Yeah it’s true. Another case of “rider and elephant”. We buy on impulse and then rationalize what we did after the fact. I’ve often...

I removed the run-in to this final sentence because there were so many unfounded a priori conclusions in there that were in the Not Even...

Look at this...made quite a few of these on a raspberry... cheapest way to go. Add a dac/amp and speakers...