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Thank you for linking to these videos Brian. AI may be a concern for many, but when used in this fashion it can create some truly beautiful and poignant moments. I like the first one the most.

Let's hope so! I actually really enjoy reading about over-engineered hi-fi gear, even if I'm not an expert on the matter. Despite not having been over to Stereophile in earnest for some time, I can't deny that I found many of their reviews of over-engineered gear very interesting, particularly...

That channel and unit variation info is truly shocking! I have some K712 Pro that I rarely use but I'd be surprised if their channel and unit variation is anything like this bad, given the premium they charge over the K701 and K702. Thanks for posting this.

Very true! I daren't even use wood veneer or vinyl wrap floorstanders in our living room. We used to have six cats (my other half had them when we met 10 years ago) and even though I loved them, I used to live in dread of my gear getting wrecked, especially after seeing what they did to the...

Agreed! Although there are likely to be some out there who would swear they can hear such differences, hence the market for exotic speaker cables. Some interesting info from this site on CCA vs. OFC speaker cables...

I'm not sure of it's been mentioned already but there's lot of cheap, copper-coated (or copper-clad) aluminium speaker cables on Amazon and elsewhere. Not optimal for use in speaker cables, but whether I could hear a difference between these and pure copper cables is another matter. I use these...

Looks like somebody on Amazon has just added the words Pro Audio before K371. There's no mention of another wired K371 on AKG's website either and I can't find it in AKG's Amazon store. I see this a lot on Amazon, where the same product is under two or more listings, sometimes with a wide...

Nice looking speakers, but knowing they look like they do with the glue dripping all over the place on the inside would drive me nuts! I'm a bit OCD about such things. I will never open up my immaculate, mahogany-veneered, Castle Howard S2 speakers for fear of seeing something similar. I don't...

Some valid comments you have made here, which I do appreciate. Unfortunately, Stereophile has not done itself any favours over the years by publishing reviews such as the following, which features no measurements whatsoever to back up the appraisal of some seemingly hallowed speaker cables: the...

"ASR takes a single criteria based approach on which to rate gear essentially “ good or bad.” (as in: here is a suite of measurements that would indicate best practises. To the degree gear deviates from this it is a bad design)". How then do you account for Amir's listening tests when...

I completely agree with what you say about the HE400SE. I laid out 6 of the best of my 20+ headphones to compare the other day (for a bit of fun) and to my mind the least impressive of the lot were my K712 Pro, which were easily bettered by the HE400SE (£69 new on Amazon recently) and...

It seems that many of Stereophile's loyal readers might prefer reading fictional accounts of hi-fi equipment performance over factual ones. It gives one a nice, warm feeling in one's loins, does it not? Especially when considering where to squirt one's next $100,000.

Compared to a Kiseki Agate phono cartridge, which can be had in the EU for around €5,000, this Rotel CD player is something of a steal. :facepalm:

That really is incredibly good of KEF. I can only imagine how you felt when you heard the "huge popping sound". Yikes! I'm delighted things worked out so well for you and your speaker. :)

Hi solderdude. This isn't a response to your post but a big thanks for the tremendously detailed review of the HE400SE that oceansize linked to. I have never read such a thorough review of a headphone (I suspect that you have done plenty of them!) and was delighted too to see the filter mod and...

Thanks for linking to solderdude's fabulously detailed review of the HE400SE. I had no idea that there were such detailed headphone reviews out there! Nice to see it was a favourable one too.

The product seen in the photos looks like a prototype made by high school student with reasonable practical skills but nothing more. I'm staggered the company are happy to be represented by the poor appearance of this product. On their website they state the following: "Cinnamon approaches...

I bought mine brand new in a sale from Amazon themselves (UK) for £69.30 delivered. They came with the same black cable that my Edition XS use. I must say I am delighted with the HE400SE. I actually bought two of them at that price. That was on August 2nd. Amazon were also selling brand new...

The first single I ever bought. I had impeccable taste for a nine-year-old.

I will never forget the truly appalling dCS quote from the recent debacle of their own creation: "I am neither your mommy nor your therapist". Never would I give them my money.