Better seats. Better hall. Seriously, though, the point is that the Bose “effect” made everything so freaking huge and “amorphous” that no realistic sense of actual “real sound in real space” was at all possible.

Oh it is (and was) indeed. Best man at our wedding (I’ve known him since 1980) moved TO Texas in around 2010. When I first met him (New Jersey guy), he was like What with the West/South. I was fresh from Arizona. Anyways, now he’s down there, and we tried it, but LIFE made it not work. If you...

EPIC No other word can possibly apply

Musta cut out all the drivers to make then into point source with trapezoidish containers, because otherwise, unless one ONLY wants baroque cathedral surround warm-poo… <shudder> Different strokes for different folks… First time I hear em. Was like COOL. Then my friend was like, “Hey, lets go...

Doonesbury for the win

Indeed, and much appreciated. I showed Gerri the wood and she loved what we (jointly agreed upon)…. Let’s save the choice for the unveiling… ;)

Ah Julian… ever and always tone deaf

What I really remember was arguing with folks that were CONVINCED they had the best and most realistic sound of any speaker. I would always say, close your eyes, and point to the first violin, or the flute soloist… and watch their arms flail about… finally falling back on “well,I like the way...

Wait til you do the inspection and, wait for it, the registration/sticker at freaking HEB while you buy your food, wine/beer, and lowest price gasoline around. They literally print your window sticker at the local freaking grocery store. THAT part of Texas is perfect!

Good to hear!

Love the pattern! Tortoise’s are cool. We had an annual visitor, Phred we named him, the 8 years I lived in Tucson… loved bits of fruit…

Cretin alert on aisle Schiittalk

So all this Vali 3 “tube talk” has me wondering… My Kara (via pre-out, or via it’s separate headphone jack) is driving my Koss ESP950 energizer just fine… but… Would Vali work as well? I figure I could take one of the SE Pre-outs from Kara into it and play the “balance” the two volume pots for...

Anyone not appreciating EH Taylor is a cretin… jes sayin’

Based on my (limited to date, but growing daily) experience, I think that is clearly going to depend on your speakers; at this level I think synergies are critical. E.g. I LOVE what I’m hearing via Yggy A1/OG Level 3 into my Apogees; there is a natural synergy there. Would I *like* to hear/know...

Only good use I ever found for sorbothane was as a footer under a particularly noisy aquarium filter/pump…. Aka, good for Fisch-Schiit.

Yeah, see “not priced like a new Lexus LS”… Had I those funds, i might check them “in home”… but, nope…

Know any tubes that can drive Apogees? Yeah, see that’s the issue for me. They are literally the ONLY reason I don’t have any current tube amp/gear… but a good tube pre could easily change that. Alas, I’m not likely to ever find any tube amp that could remotely drive them, at least not at less...

I’m certain it wasn’t distortion, it was just loud enough (for her taste) to bother her and she called me on it. I’ve had it louder for much intrinsically brighter material (e.g. Peter Gabriel’s So, for all it’s merits is a bit “hot/tizzy” even on LP) and it didn’t bother ME. She really thinks...

I hear you. I went through my tube phase earlier. For about two years I was Oracle with Koetsu, via SME 309 arm, into an OG ARC SP-3A. I came THIS close to replacing with either SP6 or 11, but, since by then I’d fallen in love with the Apogees, I decided to optimize around them… evaluated...

Ditto sir, ditto. We old, worldly, sophisticated, catholic (lower-case c) curmudgeons of the world have a key civilizational role to play, after all! So many tunes to listen to and share, so much bourbon and whiskey to taste and compare, so much wood to work and enjoy, so much Schiit to use, so...

Can’t resist (I blame @sixergixer and his devilish bourbon), but… Classe’ w/o David Reich is… Class B… Jes’ sayin. I would KILL for a pair of DR3’s for my Duetta’s…

Those are gorgeous. What is that deep brown wood in center wide strip of the board on the right? Walnut? Love that. So “warm”. So just shared all the dialogs with Wifey. It’s official, Gerri thinks all ya’ll (and me) are crazy. She’s blown away that I re-connected with an old listening buddy...

Well, I’m sure wifey would approve, but only if it were to match the Red Oak flooring; she’s still miffed at them holes I hadda drill (the floors were all new when we moved in). I’m working on a few spare pieces to make a visual “plug” for the hole, but hadn’t thought yet about experimenting...

Correct, not rebuilt. Scared Schiit-less (really) of WHEN that becomes required…. I’ve babied the hell out of them… every move was me personally packing, loading, and driving… including to and from Texas. Never in too high or low temps… But, I must admit I’m driving with Classe’ not Krell; me...