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| Is Recording quality the real culprit? BINGO! Blaring Sirens going off. DING DING DING! You win the big prize. Bigtwin is correct and so are you. I have had media in different formats. CD, Vinyl and tape recordings, BUT the most glaring and obvious quality differences has been heard in... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD CDs and Record album sales will never go back to what it once was. Streaming will grow in popularity, but CD and vinyls will continue to be a niche hobby for many people. | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD From Wikipedia The revival peaked in the 2020s decade, with various publications and record stores crediting Taylor Swift with driving vinyl sales.[12][13][14][15] In 2022, Swift's Midnightsbecame the first major album release to have its vinyl ... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD Kennymac, not arguing here. I respect all opinions. Some of my younger friends have albums and they listen to them but only a few. I also have friends who go the see movies… this is after dvds, blueray discs and renting media and now streaming. Wh... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD kennymac. As a side story, when the CD format was developed (as indicated in that video) I had bought a CD player straight away and enjoyed CD sound. I still had a Thorens TT and was spinning albums too. As time went on, CDs were engineered better... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD Great video. I bought my first CD player in Germany in 1984. A Sony and I have been a fan of the format since that day. Yeah I still have CDs and 3 CD players and a transport. Ahhh the good old days of the compact disc. | |
| Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail! Fortune cookie say’ "One does not see what is in front of their eyes, one sees what is behind them". Same holds true for what a person hears. We all hear what we want to hear rather than what sound is created. That also accounts for why measuremen... | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier I have a Line Magnetic 216ia and a Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III in a second audio system. Both can be see on my systems page. The LM Audio is designed and made in China and it’s great. A transformer went out once, but my dealer sent it to an auth... | |
| Decisions, decisions, decisions I have had Vandersteen 2ce SigII speakers for many years now. They are truly nice sounding. Laid back and natural, organic. Great with jazz or blues. Musical to be sure. They like power, but to be honest 50 watts would drive them fine. I would agr... | |
| Will streaming ever be "audiophile-worthy"? This question has to have originated from an analog only fan. Digital has been audiophile level for awhile now?? | |
| Are all streamers the same? Another interesting question; Is all hearing the same? We have our biases, we see and hear what we WANT to see and hear and lastly many of us have hearing impairment. | |
| Suggestions on improvement Short story for OP. I am retired Army. Hearing went bad in Field Atillery and Air Defense Artillery units. Once I got out, 24 years later I had lost upper mid freq and higher freq band hearing. My wife told me to get tested at the VA and once my ... | |
| Suggestions on improvement Get some hearing aids. That will help you hear your system better. Start there. | |
| Primaluna tube rolling 12AU7 Notes Yogiboy comments; I have had the same experience that yogiboy has had with Sylvania and GE nos tubes. They are terrific. Many are the military robust ones with a slight variation in the model name/number (JAN). The best brands I have tried are RC... | |
| Analysis Plus Oval 9 I have always used these cables with my two audio systems. I get the bi-wire version. I think of them as a poor man’s high end cable. They sound terrific to me. |