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Discussion in 'Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals' started by batriq, Aug 15, 2016.

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    batriq Probably has made you smarter

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    Coconut Audio level
     
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    Scrub much? I run separate hydroelectric dams for digital and analog stage power.
     
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    ButtUglyJeff Stunningly beautiful IRL

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    ....please. If he didn't bother to use silver windings in his personal transformer, then it was a huge waste of time.
     
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    If your wife says in regard to either your personal utility pole or your stereo equipment: “If I take it away from him, he will lose the motivation to live,” then you're doing it wrong. “At first, it felt strange to have a concrete pole in my yard,” he says. “But now it’s part of my home and I feel attached to it.”

    On the other hand, his own utility pole cost only a few thousand dollars more than Shunyata's top power conditioner so it almost seems like a bargain.

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    Sounds like a product for Synergistic Whatnot to take up. They can even fill a tubular post with sand!
     
    Thad E Ginathom, Aug 18, 2016
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    somewhere in the middle of not doing anything and this:

    I paid a few hundred bucks when we bought our house to have two dedicated 20A lines run to my office/listening room and I felt like the expense was worth it.
     
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    That Elon Musk power wall might be a good solution for Audio. You might have to run some sort of inverter but you would be free of most of the main audionervosa with regards to power issues.
     
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    That brings about an idea...
    Elon Musk should make audio equipment... it would be pretty good...
     
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    Some of the features might get you killed though, especially if you want to watch a Harry Potter DVD at the same time.
     
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    Interesting read:

    Why do audiophiles pay so much more for better audio quality which is actually very hard to notice?:
    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-audiop...uality-which-is-actually-very-hard-to-notice#

    I like this reply:
     
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    Indeed, the fabled final 1%.
     
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    "In my life, audio may be the most important. Well, maybe my girlfriend, both are equally important."
    IIRC I think I saw these 100K speakers in a recent issue of MJ audio magazine.
     
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    victim shaming at its most vile.

    "He was asking for it. He was driving too fast and watching a movie in a car that's known for driving fast, comes with a large screen, and drives itself!"
     
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