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| Freak Me Out Give "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd a try. It's been a top selling album for over 25 years now. Amazing album. | |
| Clapton "Reptile" Well recorded and enjoyable, but after several listenings, there's still nothing that sticks with me or strikes as having potential to become another signature song for Clapton. | |
| Vocalists/Musicians Wasting Their Talent Well, I know this is going to cause the brickbats to start flying, but I've always wondered that about Barbara Streisand. She's lionized by her fans and the press as an enigmatic all-time great vocal talent, but really, is her accomplishment truly... | |
| TACT RCS 2.0 Users Group Concerning speaker placement with the Tact... I also tried following their advice concerning moving the speakers towards the back wall for increased room coupling. I have full-range reflex-loaded speakers (PSB Stratus Gold-i), and found that getti... | |
| TACT RCS 2.0 Users Group I have had a Tact 2.0 for about 6 months. All told, it has been a wonderful addition to my system. I can't bear to listen the system without the Tact running (and I thought my system sounded great BEFORE the Tact). The associated computer software... | |
| Speaker punishing bass If rock'n'roll is to your liking try Heart's "The Road Home". Live recording of Heart's greatest, with some novel renditions of their classics. Well recorded. Lots of kick drum and electric bass. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Three nominees, expressing different kinds of longings, in no particular order: (1) "Hard Times Come Around No More", a Stephen Foster tune sung by James Taylor on Yo-Yo Ma's "Appalachian Journey" CD. The song captures the wistful hope of better t... | |
| Get rid of excessive low bass I have a Tact 2.0 digital processor and confirm that it does a magical job of cleaning up the bass response in a room. When I swith the unit to "bypass" the bottom end becomes unbearably boomy. It's hard to believe that in pre-Tact days I tolerate... | |
| 2 meter coax digital or toslink? Ignoring the case of damaged or poor quality cable with non-homogeneous electrical properties, distortions caused by a coax happen at the ends due to impedance mismatches between transport and cable, and cable and DAC. These induce reflections whi... | |
| Rogue 66 vs Rogue 99 The proposed method (place a resistor across the preamp output, listen for volume change) for measuring the preamp output impedance is a blunt instrument, at best, absent proper instrumentation. Here's why: Suppose that a preamp is able to produce... | |
| FM radio tower near house A couple of other sources for help: (1) much useful practical advice can be obtained in the "Radio Amateur's Handbook" published by the American Radio Relay League, an international organization of radio amateurs (ham operators). You might try the... | |
| Do the Audio gods shine upon you? I've never had the system sound dramatically better without doing something, but I have felt the sound sometimes changes from night to night, with some evenings better than others. I attribute this to minor changes in room configuration (a pile of... | |
| A Useful Tool for Optimizing Your System Sacre bleu! Using engineering **measurements** to tweak an audio system? These are the end times and the apocalypse is nigh indeed :-) P.S. There's a couple of good texts on acoustics (e.g., "The Master Handbook of Acoustics", by Everest) that wil... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? And then there's some additional questions: (3) do we want audiophile equipment to be a status symbol and (4) why would that be beneficial. As far as (3) goes, that's relating back to basic human needs for validation. We've spent gobs of money our... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? There's sort of two questions here: (1) why isn't high end audio a status symbol and (2) why don't more people love high end audio. With regards to (1), a lot has to do with the perceived technical nature of the audiophile hobby, which implicit me... |