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TrippLite does make a surge protector called Isobar Ultrablok heavy duty outlet extender. This thing plugs into the outlet, but there is NO extension cord, you simply plug in your component power cords directly into the outlet extender. This will help you tidy up some of the cords you have...

In regard to surges. The best way to protect your home is to have a whole house surge protector installed in the breaker box. Then use regular surge protectors at outlets. The best protector is the Tripplite IsoBar Ultra. These things work with a progressive ability; this means that the best...

I'm assuming you are NOT chaining those surge protectors thinking if one surge protector is good 2 is better, and 3 is better yet, because it doesn't work that way, and all it will do is make your components run hotter and burn out faster.

My speakers are JBL L7's that I bought in 1994, just had side bass and the mid bass speakers refoamed, the other speakers were fine. I love the sound of these speakers; I even listened to more modern offerings and haven't found anything else I liked better. Since the cabinets and the speaker...

I like synthesized keyboards because a human is interacting with it, but I don't like synthesized music coming from a computer, that to me is fake music with no human intervention. This sort of fake music is going to be hitting us hard soon as AI will be creating and singing its own music, but...

I have no desire to ever get a surround sound system.

Nothing super fancy but I have a pair of JBL 7's that I bought new in 1994 and just had 4 of the 8 speakers rebuilt. The mid-bass and the bass speakers surrounds had just started to wrinkle, the speaker shop told me to replace them before they start to rip. The other speaker surrounds were in...

Sorry, but that's not a fact, it's just marketing hype to get people to buy those types of receivers. Receivers are versatile for home theater, but stereo amps are purposely built for music reproduction. Why you scream? Stereo amps are designed specifically for two channel music reproduction...

Sooooooooo, this is very super unique. Why do the British say we're across the pond when it's an ocean not a pond, or even a lake? But here in the states we call ponds lakes, strange. We have housing tracts with a small 1- or 2-acre ponds, but the housing tract will call it a lake...

Quite honestly I don't like headphones sound vs speakers, nor do I listen to music with ear stuff while riding my bike, but sometimes I need to be more discrete at home, so I need to get another pair, and so far I think the Aune AR5000 might be the next pair I get, still researching, but they...

If you're an apartment dweller you probably should stay away from floor speakers and subwoofers, you will piss off neighbors in a hurry, and could get evicted. But if you own a separate home, meaning not a townhouse of condo, then to get the best sound floor speakers are the only way to make...

Technics doesn't make bad turntables, without knowing what you'll be spending but the NAD C588 is a specular turntable for the money, you would have to spend $5000 more to maybe hear a difference. The specs on the wow and flutter is only 0.01, which is extremely low, considering you can get a...

Yes, the are all 0's and they are all 1's but those values have to go through the dac and the electronics supporting the dac, and whatever company makes the CD play can warm up the sound or make it cooler. Take the Marantz 6007 and the Arcam CD5, they both use the same ESS ES9018 DAC but they...

Synthesisers are not the problem, they've had synthesizers for a long time, even the electric guitar is a form of an synthesizer, they took an acoustical guitar and electrified it adding sound effects as they went. Then they did the same thing to the piano and the organ, combined the two...

I didn't read all the responses due to time is not on my side, despite what the Mick Jagger said! I would NEVER buy a vinyl record that was done by a modern musician because all they are doing is putting a digital recorded and digitally mixed unto vinyl, that does not magically convert the...