Headphonesty of you mean live unamplified NO. If you mean live amplified concert SURE

Headphonesty large venues often have lame systems but many have gotten better in recent years. Some smaller venues where you can hear the bands live amps and instruments can’t be beat

California officials are calling foul on a company hosting man vs. robot cage fights in the state. Robot Entertainment Kombat hosted what it called the “world’s first human-robot fight” in San Francisco last month, shocking the internet.

A video of the fight shows the man, influencer Frankie LaPenna, clad in headgear, gloves, and kneepads facing off against a 6-foot-tall robot.

For owners who have spent thousands on their equipment, it’s an understandable precaution. Nobody wants to shorten the life of an expensive amplifier just by using its power switch.

And the concern isn’t entirely imaginary. Repeated power cycles introduce stresses that engineers have studied for decades.

But there’s a reason amplifier manufacturers still disagree about the best approach. The technical documents from the companies supplying their internal parts reveal another side of the debate, one that rarely comes up when audiophiles discuss whether to leave their equipment running.

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its explanation seems to lie in what these companies are willing to build around, and it’s looking like Chinese brands have outsmarted their Western rivals once again.

And it could decide which CD players remain affordable, repairable, and even available a few years from now.

Full story: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/10/chinese-brands-launch-cd-players-western-brands/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

Speaker cables are one of those upgrades people can argue about forever. Someone swaps copper for silver and swears the whole system opened up. Someone else hears absolutely nothing and wonders what everyone is paying for.

Then a YouTuber decided to take that argument somewhere ridiculous. He built speaker cables using liquid mercury, knowing full well it is a much worse conductor than copper, and expected the music to give him away almost immediately.

What happened once he started listening was not nearly as simple as that. And the really interesting part comes after the listening, because the numbers from the finished cable tell a very different story from what “57 times worse” makes you picture.

That is where this stops being just a strange mercury experiment and starts getting awkward for anyone who has ever paid more because one conductor was supposed to be better than another. Especially once older blind cable tests enter the picture.

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