[BagelJoe]

Palisade, Colorado.

Eat A Peach

Hopefully the freeze didn't kill my bushel. Unquestionably the finest peaches in the US.

 

[liamo]

Cadillac peaches from Washington, being from CT I’ve no skin in this game but you wanna talk cigar wrappers........

 

[EricDH]

Which doesn't need UV-C mind you.

Apart from Primaluna and Dutch & Dutch I have no knowledge of a Dutch hifi brand and that while Primaluna is made in China all the way.
In Italy however that's another story.

Siltech and Crystal Cable. Not only cables these days, but also speakers and amplification.

Grimm Audio.

From the same company that makes Primaluna you also have Kiseki phono cartridges.

Talking about cartridges, Van Den Hul (also a phono preamplifier, and cables).

Hypex (supplier of Class D amplification modules to many established brands).

Mola Mola (ok, owner Bruno Putzeys (also owner of Hypex) is a Belgian, but both companies are Dutch).

 

[Derrick Swart]

Isn`t Metrum accoustics also based in Eindhoven? sBooster is Dutch for sure but you can`t call it an hifi-brand I guess.

philips, hypex, van medevoort, hepta, piedpiper, vandenhul, siltech, crystal cable, Berghe Noble Sound to name a few

 

[ipeverywhere]

RE: At home and listening enjoyment.
I'm able to get a lot more quality listening time in by working from home and this is for a very specific reason; less hearing fatigue by not going to the office.

Your ear is a muscle and it can get fatigued. Between the noise of driving into work, noisy office environment, people "discussing" things with me at volumes I cannot control, the drive home, etc. etc. Generally, my ear holes are exhausted and I'm physically unable to do any critical listening during the work week. Now that I can, mostly, control my environment at home I get many more days during the week where I've got the energy to sit down and do some real critical listening.

 

[bcowen]

I find listening to music all day, even everyday, just dulls my sensitivity to the listening experience diminishing my enjoyment and desire to really involve myself mentally. It's like I'm constantly riding an elevator and my brain just tunes it out. The music just becomes a background noise that doesn't hold my interest. I could never walk around all day everywhere I go with ear buds or headphones on, or have music playing at any level of fidelity droning on in the background. But that's just me.

You probably just need a better amp.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Siltech and Crystal Cable. Not only cables these days, but also speakers and amplification.

Grimm Audio.

From the same company that makes Primaluna you also have Kiseki phono cartridges.

Talking about cartridges, Van Den Hul (also a phono preamplifier, and cables).

Hypex (supplier of Class D amplification modules to many established brands).

Mola Mola (ok, owner Bruno Putzeys (also owner of Hypex) is a Belgian, but both companies are Dutch).

philips, hypex, van medevoort, hepta, piedpiper, vandenhul, siltech, crystal cable, Berghe Noble Sound to name a few

You guys are good.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Your ear is a muscle and it can get fatigued

Not to put a too fine point on it but of the many, many parts that make the ear just two tiny parts in the middle ear are muscles.
But your right about the fatigue thing. Mostly. Sort of.

 

[GearMe]

You probably just need a better amp.

Such restraint! "...a better TUBE amp"...Yes?

 

[bcowen]

Such restraint! "...a better TUBE amp"...Yes?

LOL! It was kind of an inside joke, but for the greater good you're spot on.

 

[ipeverywhere]

Not to put a too fine point on it but of the many, many parts that make the ear just two tiny parts in the middle ear are muscles.
But your right about the fatigue thing. Mostly. Sort of.

Isn't "sort of" good enough for the internet?
Since you brought it up.. my understanding is that those two tiny parts attached to muscles are what allow us to hear low frequencies?

 

[Derrick Swart]

Mola Mola (ok, owner Bruno Putzeys (also owner of Hypex) is a Belgian, but both companies are Dutch).

yeah both in Groningen, Kattegat nr. 8
Didn’t know Putzeys owned them, thought he was partner in Kii

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Since you brought it up.. my understanding is that those two tiny parts attached to muscles are what allow us to hear low frequencies?

It's complicated.
It's more about softening hard noise and amplifying soft sounds.

 

[bcowen]

Cadillac peaches from Washington, being from CT I’ve no skin in this game but you wanna talk cigar wrappers........

I was wanting to get back to mayonnaise...

 

[bcowen]

Palisade, Colorado.

Eat A Peach

I'm not qualified to enter this debate. If it doesn't contain meat, I've probably never tried it.