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Is it his review of the Klipsch Heresy?

No-one in Britain would eat that without adding red or brown sauce. Or at the least some salt and vinegar. (Obviously you must avoid getting vinegar on the beans, this is a culinary skill in itself). Also whoever prepared that is a beginner. There should be a sausage acting as a breakwater...

I like the retro-futuristic thing about playing a CD. I'd never get tired of opening and closing the drawer on that Marantz.

People buy them because they look the business, unlike the vast majority of current players that resemble something a high-rent brass might keep a stash of prophylactics in. They just take a chance on its remaining life-span.

Also maybe because 8 is associated with good fortune in China and some other Asian cultures? '888' being 'Triple fortune.'

It does, but the bar needs to be set quite low. :)

I'm always happy to pay attention to a genuine expert and although I'm nothing of the sort myself I know enough to be able to distnguish them from the bullshitters. It's not all so cut and dried. I know guitar players who have way more than 30,000 hours and could strip and rebuild a guitar...

This is a variation on the 'I expected to like them and I didn't, so there's no such thing as cognitive bias or cognitive bias could not be a factor in this case.' But it ignores the fact that our conscious and subconscious expectations are not necessarily the same. And, by definition, we...

Currently I'm deploying a DAC from 1989. Reverb tails reproduce just fine. I'm amused by the idea that only 'audio professionals' are aware of such things. You don't need to know how the equipment works to be able to mix and master, just how it is operated. This distinction seems to be missed...

And derived from a recipe allegedly obtained in India...

Europe vs America - 'It's the little differences'

The weather is number one. Although right now it's not doing anything so it's as bland as the food. I'd put the food at number two. :) But if you like pies full of stodge then you're golden. You could move out of London and up north - it's pretty much still like it was in the 1950s here...

Reminds me of Monty Python 'Life Of Brian' - 'This is movement towards, isn't it?!' 'Populus vocatus Tekton vadunt ad advocatos' Now write it out a hundred times!

True. So we invented brown sauce: Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. :)

That's a classic. I especially like the part where one snake-oil vendor rubbishes another one's product. Not by saying it does nothing - don't want to put that idea in the punters' minds - but instead: ''...in every case I found it to 'sexify' the sonic results, ultimately leading to a less...

yes that's pretty much where I am at with it also. Plus I'm currently using an antique digital pre-amp. I can connect six VCRs to it, but not my laptop.

The power amp is measured here, https://www.stereophile.com/content/vac-statement-452-iq-musicbloc-monostereo-power-amplifier-measurements Just $75K! - hold on - before you reach for your wallet - you'll need two of them for stereo.

I voted 'Yes' last time but this time I've gone for 'Yes but' - since I have changed some parts of the system since the last vote and I think it is better now than it was. So never say never.

I don't find it disgusting but I do wonder what benefits they think they are getting over, say, a $2K pre-amp. Now if they replied 'I know there's none but I just liked the look of it' I'd be fine with that. But that's almost certainly not what they'd say.

How drums are recorded has changed massively over the years as mixing desks got more and more channels. From using one mic for the drums to 16 or 20. I think this is pretty much 100 percent a recording thing and nothing to do with the playback system.