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| Should I Get a DAC ? I'm glad to hear that someone besides me has an issue with high frequencies. Didn't mean it quite like that--not glad you have hearing issues. Gotta have my ear plugs and sunglasses. Music hurts sometimes. Certainly cables can help, but can they e... | |
| Cat-O-meter My cats like Nora Jones. So do I. But come on...You might be on to something there. I got Telarc Chiller as a gift but I can't play it. It's cruelty to kitties. | |
| Review: Harman Kardon HK990 Amplifier I haven't heard the Marantz PM 15S2. I like Marantz generally. What bothers me is that Stereophile states the S/N line level of the Limited Edition as -89db which seems like a dark ages spec to me. Stereophile states the hk990 line level as -109db... | |
| hanging a speaker It's called bolt stock. | |
| hanging a speaker When you mount a bracket on a speaker, you have to open the cabinet usually by removing a driver to determine the cabinet thickness. Often the screws will be longer than the cabinet walls are thick. If the screws are longer than the cabinet thickn... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? "How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it."..Thomas Mann. Sorry. Couldn't resist. It's the rebel in me. | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Frogman nailed it--articulated it with excellence. In my youth, I started down the road of music appreciation and found it unsatifying. I was afraid I'd get lost in the intellectual, cognitive element from what really moves me. Further I have a su... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Like Rok2id and Schubert's comments best--suspcious of music that has to be explained, and only I know who I want to call.Some truth in all of the above posts, but there might be a fine distinction between music appreciation and what one really re... | |
| subwoofer Bass in Systems I was never happy with subs until I got an amp with bass management. Now I'm a big fan of subs which as one member put it liberate the higher range. Fidelity is better in the upper range plus lower range is full. No downside. | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? I was going to add that the above posts approach music with an intellectual curiosity that I don't have for music. My intellectual curiosity is directed toward the science of audio. I will abandon Vivaldi for a good 2/4 time and Bach for a Hammond... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Who could argue with any of the above-all marvelous and cogent thoughts? Yes, music is said to be the most emotive of the arts--amen, Martin Luther.I think of a music genre like a skeletal structure of a house inside which are infinite possiblitie... | |
| Amplifier Input Impedance George,How does noise relate to your above description of input impedence, gain, etc if at all?Lynne | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? I think clearly exposure leads to appreciation; familiarity leads to contentment. Working at understanding music as you have I'm sure leads to more appreciation of the execution of music. But if you have been raised on classical music, you will al... | |
| Amplifier Input Impedance Thank you, Atmasphere. A crash course in amplfier design is clearly not going to work for me. | |
| Amplifier Input Impedance http://www.audioholics.com/audio-amplifThe above site agrees with some above comments from Bombaywalla and others. To summarize, according to the source, high input impedence in SS causes high voltage gain which in turn causes noise. It can also c... |