Chicago_Pete:

I honestly cannot tell the difference between my $200 speaker cables and lamp cord.

When used with speakers or lamps?

fini:

Chicago_Pete:

I honestly cannot tell the difference between my $200 speaker cables and lamp cord.

 

When used with speakers or lamps?

Here's another...don't judge the sound of something you have never heard.

Cut-Throat:

And what I learned - Is that you have to spend a lot of money in this hobby to learn that you don't have to spend a lot of money to get good sound!

dtel:

Don't judge anything by it's looks, good or bad , because you may be surprised in the end !

When serving 5-10 years at Lompoc, its best to never get surprised in the end.

Wife Approval Factor is the most important factor. 

Having permission is so much better than begging for forgivness.

It is very Cold in the dog house. 

Later Bill

Let your ears be your guide.

Thanx, Russ

 Gee, where to start...

The midrange is where we live-PWK

You can't make what you can't measure, because you don't when you've got it made-another gem from PWK, but he was quoting someone else.

The goodness of an audio system (to its owner) is always porportional to the cost and work put into it, and disputing that axiom causes anything from mild controversy to loss of friendship

The very best loudspeakers (and associated signal chain) will give you the occassional impression that the music is indeed right in the room with you.  In the realm of the very best, the frequency of this impression sorts the pretty good from the truly impressive. If you think you get this all the time, with all types of music, you are either delusional, your hearing is shot, or you've discovered something the rest of us would really like to know.

Recalibrate your hearing by listening to live, unamplified music as often as possible. 

All other factors being equal (which they seldom are), a speaker system with the largest possible midrange radiating area (horn mouth or diaphram size) will generally sound better than a system with a smaller mid area. This relates to the first quote above.

If a manufacturer avers that subjective results are more important by far than instrumented testing, run, don't walk, away from them.

russ69:

Let your ears be your guide.

Good one, people can give you an opinion on how they like a speaker but in the end YOU have to be happy with it.  And I am happy to find Klipsch.

James

fini:

Chicago_Pete:

I honestly cannot tell the difference between my $200 speaker cables and lamp cord.

 

When used with speakers or lamps?

That is hilarious, "Things I have learned on my lamp journey." 

Chicago_Pete:

fini:

Chicago_Pete:

I honestly cannot tell the difference between my $200 speaker cables and lamp cord.

 

When used with speakers or lamps?

 

That is hilarious, "Things I have learned on my lamp journey." 

 I have leaned that when replacing those small bulbs on vintage Marantz receivers, keep the soldering pencil far away from the dial indicator string.

 Electro-mechanical audio systems still don't fool me into thinking someone is singing in my living room.

Hifi jim:

I've learned to keep an open mind and ear. Just because I hate the way something looks doesn't mean I'll hate the way it sounds. After tremendous resistance, my dealer convinced me to audition Magnepan speakers. I always hated the look and thought there was no way they'd ever sound the way they do... boy was I surprised. Bought and loved them, had to sell them but someday I will own another.

I agree, had a pair of Maggies years ago.
They do a lot of things right and someday I will have another pair.

Some CDs sound excellent on my stereo, some don't.

Sean