Recent content by JCS123

Careful Shadowfax, you're going to have maniacal audiophiles trying to sabotage the power grid to get that last 1%!

My thoughts and prayers are with your father in law, the medical professionals, and of course you, your wife and family. 🙏

Welcome, GoldTone!

Welcome, Sasha!

Please don't take this thread as representative of AudioShark overall. It is unfortunate that a thread will occasionally go off the rails, but that is the exception and not the rule here. Mike is more that gracious in allowing all points of view to be expressed on his forum, and it is up to...

Welcome, firenze! I gather from your first two posts that you are both a music lover and happy with your equipment. Congrats on reaching that happy place that eludes so many audiophiles ("at least for now"). Here's hoping that you enjoy and learn from this forum as much as I do!

Not just Jews. Christians like myself who understand that Israel is our best ally in the Middle East, and arguably the entire world, also find bigots like El-Sayeed appalling. Either his antisemitism or the sheer lunacy of his policy positions would keep me from voting for him. That the package...

“I am not somebody who is a socialist. I believe in capitalism. I just believe that capitalism has to be regulated.” Um...........come again?

With some of that amazing equipment that you have, I'm betting that they'll catch the bug for sure.

Agreed 100%!

OK Mike, I respect your stand on this. Thanks for clarifying. I'll stop calling out suspected AI-generated content. ;)

Thanks for asking. I care because an answer to the multiple ID's question would help me rule out whether one or both posts were AI-generated. Whether this matters to you or not, it matters to me. An answer from Jason and/or Akhmed would help to clarify whether they are: 1) Responses from two...

One of these years, I'm going to make it to the Florida show. Financial and health issues have been taking a toll, but I still consider that show as part of my "bucket list" Florida vacation.

Agreed, it was misleading - but not intentionally so. I have removed the "not the speakers" line because it longer fits with the title. I've learned a lot from the thread, taken some shots and it's probably time to put it to bed.

Yes, my OP was in agreement with Matej's statements in his review. The original title of the thread was: The power amp is the bedrock of the system. The first line of the body of the post continued ...and not the speakers. I have since changed the title from bedrock to important based on 1)...