Recent content by crwilli

Well played!

For luxury items, the cost of developing and manufacturing them has little connection to the sale price. There is a demand for these products. Yes, even $1MM speakers. Sooo, some have the brand and market position to develop products for that market segment. I don’t understand the...

A day to celebrate for all you geometry nerds! 😀

Impressive Mike. I asked Chat GPT the question and it failed to come up with an answer. Then I told it the answer was 170kM and it provided the proof showing that is the correct answer. Not sure how I feel about that.

I too have a WW plat 10 from our favorite pusher. I asked what I should get for my last 1/2 meter and said, please send me one. Great construction and overall quality. No experimentation needed. Great to have Mike on speed dial.

I (also) have a friend with the Valors in a very, very, well sorted room and cannot process the Valors AND a six pack of JL Audios subs. 🤯🤯

The build on Japan is this. You have all seen Japanese people wearing masks? They are wearing them to keep from infecting others - protecting others. In the rest of the world, people wear masks to keep from being infected - protecting themselves.

That’s the beautiful part of Japan. Nobody will sit in the sweet spot so as not to take it from another.

Welcome to the Shark!

OP, I am truly curious why you have chosen not to stream? (I have no agenda, just curious) Have a huge, many terabyte, library? If so, do you buy digital downloads and/or buy CDs / SACDs and rip them your self? Don’t like the sound? Don’t like the expense?

Why don’t you stream?

Holy smokes! Makes you wonder how Ron feels about that.

I would second the relaxed atmosphere. Plenty of time to talk to vendors if you wished.

I would leave that to Mike to comment but the phrase “horses for courses” comes to mind.

On absolute terms, I have no idea. Most rooms have a steady flow in and out and few are empty. You can get the best chair with a bit of patience.