TubeCAD blog smells like a soldering iron, looks like a physics lab manual, but sometimes reads like the Arts Section from the NYTimesis. Along with monthly discussions of how to build a stage phono preamplifier or tube crossover there are things like an ode to the headphone which notes that
1) the best fidelity listening experience may be a pair of headphones WITH a whole room subwoofer set for 70 to 100 Hz,2) many people prefer cheap, bad fidelity for the same reason that Joan Collins preferred TV over film late in her career, or
3) with headphones you can hear "normally unfamiliar and uncharted musical events: the floorboards creaking beneath the 300-pound jazz bass player, the hall’s reverberation ... George Harrison’s thick-fingered flubs..."
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