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Modern earbuds and soundbars do a better job of reproducing bass at low to medium volumes than casual consumer equipment from a decade or more ago. Exception given to the Koss Portapro and certain bookshelf systems. You should try listening to some modern pressed vinyl then. I have a pressing...

Hifi wasn't really a thing until the 70s right? Prior to the 70s hearing bass lines with all the low end cut out doesn't really seem to be a thing. Like those motown records have a hint of the actual frequency range of the bass being played, but it wasn't until Funk, Disco and Hifi that the...

I am both aggressive and irresponsible; the first thing I did with the 110 when I got home with it was to dime it with the bass at 3o, mids at noon, and treble at 3. Zero complaints except when I hit the resonant frequency of the room, which was apparently a B. Then it was briefly like being at...

I have a shameful number of guitars for how badly I play. I have one bass so far. It’s nice. I’ll probably have just the one for a long time. Then again, that’s how it was with guitars.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child (well then it was just ADD, and now it's ADSD), and good ol' Autism Spectrum Disorder as an adult. That combined with CDD (Chronic Depressive Disorder) makes for quite an alphabet soup of dysfunction. The thing about neuroatypicalities is that they don't fit...

I honestly don't think you could go wrong with any of those. The 8" is going to lack both thump and openness because it simply can't move the same amount of air, but for noodling in your TV room it would be just fine. I tried out the BA108, RB108 and RB110 in a store, you can see the info about...

I play guitar primarily, though I suspect that's going to be changing because I haven't put my bass down for more than a couple of hours since I bought it. I've had quite a collection of low-watt tube guitar amps over the past few years, and I can confirm there is literally nothing that sounds...

I literally just started playing bass from guitar and when I found out the midrange practice amps everyone raved about all weighed less than 25lbs I was kind of blown away. I mean, the Ampeg I bought is larger than my little 1x12 mini guitar stack but it is featherweight in comparison. That...

I have the kid brother (RB110). It's a very enjoyable new friend. I'm a little jelly of your acquisition.

I have many opinions on the OP subject of the thread, I keep writing books here but I'll go small with this one: Product development lifecycles are way longer than tech development lifecycles. If you get too fancy your magic box is obsolete before it hits the showroom floor. Even if you don't...

Which was that big because that was the size of Hard Disk platters of the time as well, which were replacing drums much like the way LPs replaced wax cylinders. The fact that spinning magnetic media is still a thing boggles the mind.

Just pointing out you said something isn't something, then you said the only justification is the same, which logically still results in the same false equivalence fallacy. Secondly, there isn't only one justification, that is simply one among many. Loss prevention and customer retention are...

You're right, another similar firm to Bain bought them from Bain in 2014 and saddled them with even more debt. Private equity keeps stabbing Guitar Center but it still won't die

That depends on how you feel about Guitar Center as a company. Functionally it's doomed because it's a debt dumping ground for Bain Capital just like Toys R' Us, it's just a matter of time until it ceases to exist. As a faceless corporation, we all love it for its spacious spaces full of gear...