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Vinyl playback - lack of bass?
@tomrk I love Styx and I think that might be the only LP I don't have of theirs. lol  I'm going to check it out though.  Not to get too far off topic but have you listened to Crash of the Crown.  It took me a minute but some of the tunes are reall... 
Vinyl playback - lack of bass?
@tomrk Right on!  I think I had all the bass that could be had in a beetle with four Jensen 6x9's. lol  Yeah the groove thing is my basis and of course the RIAA EQ...this is what the sections in integrated are for, right?  Or standalones.  I guess... 
Vinyl playback - lack of bass?
I haven't read every single comment but if I just go on intuition alone I really feel like vinyl simply doesn't have the bandwidth for it.  It seems like it's why we didn't have subs (to a large degree) back then.  But I'm not 100% sure and could ... 
Has anyone tried these products?
While on absorption...what do you guys think about adding absorption to enable higher volumes?  I've had a lot of success making sure parallel surfaces are very well treated but that's about it with carpet and heavy curtains.  I can go super loud ... 
Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable?
This spanned the widths and depths of logic and reasoning ranging from the metaphysical to the ultra-technical.  He he...I'd say it's really just a matter of two things:  Do you want to?  Can you afford it?  Do it.  Even small budgets can get into... 
Subwoofer connection
Tape out. Done!  It's how we used to hook up eq's and such.  There's always output there.  
More potential bad news for some big names...
Everybody knows about how some of the top components at Marantz are made in a special facility in a premium fashion kinda like Klipsch RF-7's right?  
30 yr old speakers- time to replace drivers?
I have a pair of Boston Acoustics A150’s. I’ve re-coned the woofers but sound excellent still. 40 years old! Point being yours can sound great, too. If the woofer surrounds are not disintegrated and they sound good I’d say leave them alone.  If yo... 
Physical degradation of CD's
@dekay If I send you postage would you send me your throw-aways?  
Legacy Audio Focus SE and rivals
Is there any place that a rich person isn't trying to convince you that you must have what they are selling?  Moderator...should sellers be posting here?  I've noticed if anyone else says anything out of the way at all it get's removed.  
Echoey walls and dust mites
When I saw the topic, for a second I was thinking dust mites as sound absorbers.  lol  Rock it hard and maybe that will take care of them.  But then goes the absorption as well.  Dust mites are mostly prevalent where there's dead skin.  Dead skin ... 
Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source?
You can do it all day with mac or windows as long as you use a great external DAC.  Simple as that.  BUT...lol...there's really no comparison to dedicated, purpose built hardware.  
Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it
@jpan  There was a time when I, used to develop/program, would have said that the open source concept would produce tons of problems.  Intuitively it would seem so right?  But the opposite is the case.  I've had less trouble with open source appl... 
SACD Players
I might catch some shade for this but Sony's top blu-ray does SACD and is a really good unit.  Maybe just check it out a bit.  Good luck!  
Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it
As an IT Pro I've seen many ultra-frustrating issues that seem so severe that you think many others have to be seeing them too.  But there are often issues that only "certain" people see due to "who the hec knows what".  You'd be surprised how oft...