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I'm sure I said all of this before in this thread, and I suspect Pablolie and I don't much disagree, but to respond: Let's make some...

The first time I heard Bach's Goldberg Variations played on harpsichord, it was a revelation to me. I've mentioned this before.

This discussion made me think of a converse analogy, something like this:

Life gets boring in the management team after a while. To get the excitement back, we like to recruit a new "greenhorn" moderator and...

Some speakers age well. I bought my Magnepan 3.6/R new in July 2001. After 23+ years of daily use they still function and measure like...

Cheating!

Most of the quartz watches I've owned over the years run 0.5 secs fast per day at room temperature. The mechanicals I've owned, I...

Or on connection to a radio-based time source. High-accuracy quartz watches use temperature compensation to correct for variations...

Cheating! There's a purity and elegance of design in timepieces that don't rely on external references. Sounds like a TCXO, temperature...

This guy used an electron microscope to video a phono needle tracking an LP groove. I found the video fascinating, especially the method...

IME that (quartz watch accuracy) mainly depends on temperature.

It's a bit oversimplifying to say dogs can hear better. Sure, they can hear higher frequencies than humans. But human low frequency...

Safe accurate robust 22 Ohm(Ω) 30 W non-inductive non-polar wirewound power-type metal-clad resistor (FHN50-22OHMF, PCN Corporation...

I thought the definition of "audiophile" is someone who uses music to listen to his audio system. Everyone else does the opposite. ;)

Most CD players do sound "the same" at least when level matched in a proper system. But not all, and I can think of several reasons why...