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| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? @ three-easy-paymentsQuite the contrary. The vast majority of records I own are completely analog. It's true that some of the newer vinyl releases were recorded digitally or a digital master was used for the vinyl production but 90% or more of my ... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? I think the original question was reasonable and sincere. Here's my take on the issue.I have dived pretty deep into this rabbit hole. One of my eccentricities in this hobby is that I like to collect formats and versions of my favorite recordings. ... | |
| Openning a hi fi shop The question you are asking really needs to be turned around and looked at from the perspective of what type of customers are you trying to serve. If you are starting a store in Redmond and catering to Microsoft millionaires you might want to focu... | |
| The survival of the fittest. There are hundreds of reasons why one speaker brand succeeds and another fails - just like other businesses. I can cite one great speaker brand that went out of business (it didn't really fail) for a very particular reason. When Jim Thiel died his... | |
| The cost of LP's and CD's - an observation The decline of CD prices and the rise of LP prices are due to lots of factors but here are a few of them.CD pricing followed a typical pattern for any new technology. At first they were expensive because manufacturing efficiencies hadn't been full... | |
| Who is still making CD transports? You can pick up a used PS Audio DirectStream transport for a good price. This unit buffers and reclocks the data which gives your DAC a better signal to deal with. I have one of these and I can vouch for it.Or, if you go with a regular CD player a... | |
| $7000 preamp vs $700 receiver - Is the difference THAT significant? I'm late to the party but I want to amplify a point made above. Your desire for Macintosh gear is a complex issue. Yes, you want to make sure that you will get an improvement in sound but it's obvious that you have an emotional connection with Mac... | |
| Best 40 to 50k used speakers The most impressive speakers I've heard to date at anything near your price range are MBL 101E Mk II. They are $70k new but I've never seen a used pair for sale.I'm currently running a pair of CS6's. The MBL 101's are one of the few speakers I've ... | |
| D'agostino amplifiers: where's the beef? At AXPONA 2018 I talked to a guy from D'Agostino during a slow period on the last day. He told me how expensive and difficult it was to make the copper heat sinks and how they had to replace a bunch of them under warranty from early in the product... | |
| Threshold, Levinson, Bryston, Krell, ?others? used amps I have a Krell KSA 300S and I absolutely love it but there are some issues with owning a vintage Krell. I'm running a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers which dip below 3 ohms and have low sensitivity (87 db) so the robust power of the Krell is critical t... | |
| Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda! To answer the original question, there is really only one thing you can do about this. Before buying a remastered recording check the Dynamic Range Database to see if the remaster is heavily compressed. If it is, don’t buy it. The only way to fix ... | |
| Why hasn’t B&W ever entered the ultra hi-end for speakers? @mtdining " Hifi companies break down into two distinct groups - those who invest primarily in marketing like B&W and those who invest primarily in R&D like Wilson Audio. Wilson has sold far more speakers than all the others combined beca... | |
| Does high end system with dedicated circuits need grounding products I went to AXPONA in 2018 and heard a demo of an Ansuz power distributor/grounding gizmo. It was their top end model and cost $20k but I don't remember the model number. IIRC one of the main features of the thing was that it acted as a star groundi... | |
| Best used integrated under $5k This at the very low end of your price range but I thought I would mention it in case you might want to direct some of your budget to other upgrades. Denon made a series of integrated amps with the designation PMA-2000. I have the 2000IVR. They ha... | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? Here are several points which I hope are helpful.1. Your Thiels are difficult speakers to drive. They dip below 4 ohms for part of their frequency spectrum and they aren't very sensitive. If your amp were going to fail on any set of speakers it wo... |