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Nickyboy
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Edit: never mind. I had the wrong brand name in mind.
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Denon, Marantz, Klipsch, and Other Legacy Audio Brands Could Disappear by 2025 as Sales Crash
Major audio brands may not survive another year as parent companies struggle to stay afloat.
www.headphonesty.com
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Is Bose’s McIntosh Takeover Good or Bad News?
The future of handmade luxury audio now rests in mass market hands.
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axolotl
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It's good news. We just don't know it yet.Is Bose’s McIntosh Takeover Good or Bad News?
The future of handmade luxury audio now rests in mass market hands.
It's bad news. We just don't know it yet.
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Headphonesty: Hey Bose, advertise on our website and it'll be good news!
axolotl
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Very few of the members here are millionaires.
That said, I do hope to retain my job for another year, at least.
Dear Lord, I hope I didn't jinx myself.
Ojai Sam
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For the holiday season, I decided to bring my vintage Philips CD player out of mothballs. After several years of streaming, there is an inexplicable satisfaction from pulling a CD out of its protective shell and watching my equipment swallow it up.
Notice the state of the art controls: MP3 link, USB drive and a dock for an iPhone or iPod, both of which I retired long ago.
The full function remote control enables me to manage things without losing my place at the festive table.
Here's a close up of the portable Christmas library that's also been sleeping in the vault for several years.
Ho! Ho! Ho! and Press To Play.
Notice the state of the art controls: MP3 link, USB drive and a dock for an iPhone or iPod, both of which I retired long ago.
The full function remote control enables me to manage things without losing my place at the festive table.
Here's a close up of the portable Christmas library that's also been sleeping in the vault for several years.
Ho! Ho! Ho! and Press To Play.
axolotl
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Was your Bose a standalone, all-in-one unit (that is, with speakers), or simply a CD player (that is, a component)?
Inquiring minds
Nickyboy
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It was the all-in-one unit with CD player and radio. The replacement is an Aiwa all-in-one with CD player and radio, too.
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Ask The Industry: hi-fi engineers weigh in on the value of 'running-in'
A priceless or pointless exercise?
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Current setup.
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I am pretty firmly a cable believer. I bought new RCA cables for my stack and they do indeed sound better than the old cables. I would say the improvement in clarity is about 10%, so maybe not much. But it is indeed noticeable.
Unsomnambulist
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Listening to Cameron Winter's album Heavy Metal reveals that the improvement in sound quality is not so trivial! Wow.
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And just like that, a few days later the sound quality has "normalized" and it's just what music sounds like now on my desktop stack. This always happens.
axolotl
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Hey! Just because I bring up a major, obvious flaw in the human condition that irritates other people by merely being brought up, doesn't mean you get to ask difficult questions yourself, mister!
That being said, I now own two wireless headphones which I've suddenly lost interest in because my wired headphones connected to my desktop stack are so good.
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