07-08-2018, 05:00 PM
you are absolutely right, it is very personal.
In fact I started a topic on Karma about rolling the tubes on my McIntosh and how it had almost zero effect, and guess what, I got a lot of support there and no snobbery at all. Many people agreed and many said they were waiting 'till someone said that. That was very recently, like maybe 3 months ago.
I don't see here that anyone dicittes how to listen. For my money, tone control in radios is there for a reason. Radios are not exactly HiFi devices and they do need tone control; the same Philco hi end line with variable IF band has it there for that very reason, coupled with treble control.
But here we are in the habit of expressing opinions, not pushing them onto others. On the audiofiles' forums folks are more adamant about their views but then there it is part religion, while here we are still hobbyists.
In fact I started a topic on Karma about rolling the tubes on my McIntosh and how it had almost zero effect, and guess what, I got a lot of support there and no snobbery at all. Many people agreed and many said they were waiting 'till someone said that. That was very recently, like maybe 3 months ago.
I don't see here that anyone dicittes how to listen. For my money, tone control in radios is there for a reason. Radios are not exactly HiFi devices and they do need tone control; the same Philco hi end line with variable IF band has it there for that very reason, coupled with treble control.
But here we are in the habit of expressing opinions, not pushing them onto others. On the audiofiles' forums folks are more adamant about their views but then there it is part religion, while here we are still hobbyists.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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