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Finally, after proposals languished for years, this month the Food and Drug Administration finalized rules to allow 'over-the-counter' hearing aids to be sold without the involvement of audiologists, and without state regulations that previously kept the market closed. While a good audiologist...

Imagine playing this on your system! from: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/life-soil-was-thought-be-silent-what-if-it-isnt "The first time that Marcus Maeder stuck a noise sensor into the ground, it was on a whim. A sound artist and an acoustic ecologist, he was sitting...

Friday I was watching a short movie about the Carpenters on PBS, on the modest HT setup in my bedroom, and when they broke off into their fund-raising schtick, I thought “I can do better than this”, and went out into the living room and put on my greatest hits LP of theirs - Carpenters The...

Many of us are under more stress than usual, due to this pandemic. Sometimes it is not always obvious but can break out in unexpected ways. For me just a while ago, it was putting on the soundtrack to Pleasantville, and hearing Fiona Apple's version of John Lennon's Across The Universe filling...

The New Gear - Values forum has a "best system for $1000" thread and a "best system for $500" thread. We should have a corresponding thread here in the New Gear - Performance forum. IMHO. And although one could easily spend half a million on a stereo, or more even, most here never would, so...

Audiophiles aren't the only ones seduced by B.S. Here's a USB drive that protects from 5G "electric fog", for $416! https://www.yahoo.com/news/416-usb-drive-claiming-block-100800767.html I can't really get too offended; I wonder why?

Interesting article: https://www.stereophile.com/content/slow-listening The 'testing against an internal model' part explains a lot, I think, and jives with my listening experience. This requires long-term memory, and is more evidence that audio memories are not 'poor', IMO.

I'm curious about where the stereo image forms in all y'all's systems, and how much depth is presented. I know this can vary from recording to recording, but in general terms, where is your image? Please share any insight you have gathered regarding depth and image location - what expanded it...

It's very upbeat, and you can dance to it! The tracks include songs named Life Is Good, Thank God For Music, and Send Love Spread Peace, so it has some of that old optimism that is in such short supply now. Aging, cranky boomers (such as myself) should check it out...

The Yahoo front page won't render properly in Safari today - stuff is piled on top of other stuff - it's a mess. Obviously nobody tested it properly. I'm kind of wondering if it will stay that way, even ?!? It seems like nobody cares these days. Forget planned obsolescence, we are moving from...

I thought this was interesting: He was sometimes late in his timing - on purpose and to great effect. And he's a lefty!

My wife Sylvia is in surgery for a neuro-endocrine tumor, right now. It may be the 6 hour version of the operation. It's scaring me plenty. Hug your loved ones. Hopefully I'll be back to report success. - nurse just called - OK so far, may be the shorter version... - Fred

Pretentious? Yes, especially. Why?

Fascinating. I had no idea.

I actually did this a couple of years ago, but it's been a really nice, practical addition. Before - taken during my wife's annual baking session for the Wildlife Center: Even when it was cleared off, you couldn't sit at the counter comfortably because there was no real leg room, with only a...

I'm not certain that it was made by ADS, but I think so - I think that's why I took it seriously and demonstrated it to customers. A black box, maybe 4 inches high, and less than rack width. It had controls which set the delay time for the rear speakers, to simulate different sized music halls...

Found out on a trip to Seattle that the Easy Rider Canoe and Kayak company is going out of business. Peter Kapuat, the founder, has ceased manufacturing, with no buyer, he told me. He is 85 now. The website is still up, and shows a career of innovation and a peek at a once-thriving business...

Here's a post that I put up for a while after I'd gotten my Teac TT fixed, and the Synergy SPU back in service: I got my Teac TN-400 turntable working again recently... http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....tn-400-turntable-speed-control-repair.740329/ …which means I have a place to mount my...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/04/baby-boomers-are-downsizing-and-kids-won-take-family-heirlooms/iP0yVeN49gLF55nq47M7gK/story.html I'm not sure what the "anti-brown-furniture" movement is, but I don't like the sound of it - I like wood. Not a whole lot of my clutter is from my...

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-delay-wireless-earbuds-technical-issues-2016-12 They could connect one to the other with... a WIRE (ssssh!) Call it a "keeper". Bling it up with some over-golding!

I've had a Teac TN-400 Magnefloat turntable since '79 or so. It went into the closet for a speed-control problem after a few years. Dug it out a couple years ago and got it going, sort of, but it still has speed issues. The adjustment knobs are all the way in one direction, but that is not...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-apple-may-jumped-gun-160439937.html Resolution is mentioned, but lack of noise cancellation is the main criticism...

Random idea pairing is the mother of invention, apparently! https://www.hellotwist.com/?gclid=CJqTrK6ny80CFQepaQodNNIPgg

Recently I read a review in a high-end magazine, of some Harbeth speakers, where the reviewer compared them glowingly to his Quads: "...a comparison not to be chosen lightly as it has the same neutrality, naturalness, musical authority, midrange beauty, and a really extraordinary top-to-bottom...

Interesting article: http://curbed.com/archives/2015/12/02/national-sawdust-bureau-v-arup-concert-hall-brooklyn.php