bipod72
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| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? Defining what you mean by "highly processed" would be helpful when asking this question. Do you consider Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to be highly processed? How about every Steely Dan or Rush album? One could make the argument that anything recorded... | |
| Ripping CD's I used to use Winamp a long time ago for ripping CDs and burning mix CDs. In fact I still listen to those 15yo mix-CDs in my car. I recently began using JRiver for ripping CDs to FLAC for backup and purge purposes. I found Maxell & Verbatim C... | |
| The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs @gkelly I'm on a fixed income as well in that I have to strategically make hi-fi purchases relating to substantial upgrades. I have a family to raise and the kids and wife seem to vacuum up my $ and time. But that's life right? I have a modest mi... | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? My wife loves listening to music. We go to live shows and music festivals quite often. What she doesn't like to see is a a bunch of clutter and a stack of hi-fi equipment put on display like a Donald Judd sculpture. Although if I could get my hi-f... | |
| Axpona 2023 @jeffseight thanks for the heads up on Fritz. I've come to realize in short order here the amount of boutique speaker makers out there making great stuff. | |
| Axpona 2023 @kota1 Thanks, I'll check those out. I wasn't thinking of an active speaker set-up but am intrigued by the idea. | |
| Axpona 2023 @jeffseight I'll be in the market for some new reference bookshelf/monitor speakers and the MoFi Source point 8 has me really intrigued since I heard about it. Not just because of the smaller form factor and potential WAF but it appears to be spot... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Skinny Puppy's entire catalog is a challenge for any system and every listener. Intentional distortion, symphonic synthesizers, plenty of fast low end bass, ominous synthesizers, distorted vocals. It invites loud listening but also easy to start c... | |
| Adding a Dac and Stresmer My Marantz integrated is capable of streaming and has a decent DAC for the price point but I recently picked up the Cambridge Audio CXN V2 to try out and have decided to keep it. The price had dropped after CA introduced their lower line AXN strea... | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? I am in the process of re-ripping my CD collection to FLAC. When I first ripped my collection in the early 00's it was for portability and file size management purposes which mean low quality MP3, M4A, AACs and my CD player had died so I transitio... | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus Loudest concert I've been to that made my ears ring for days was Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the Civic theater. It was a combination of loudness and a poor sound engineer that made it hard to enjoy. Ears rang for a few days after. Worst loude... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? @mitch2 Oh I hear you. I have a '05 Torelli Express w/ Campy Chorus that I can still manage to find NOS replacement parts for but it's getting harder. For brake pads I end up buying 4 sets so I have back ups. My '21 Ritchey Outback has the Campy E... | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? Man if audiophiles think they have it hard, try being serious about cycling where every few years there's a new trend or technology push and suddenly your functionally and fully capable custom bicycle is obsolete in some way. Of course there will ... | |
| un-becoming an audiophile Audiophiliacs suffer the same fate as "fine dining" experts in that, in the pursuit of some imagined perfection they limit themselves to experiencing all that life has too offer. One reason why people found Anthony Bourdain so relatable that the g... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! @prof maybe my irony didn't come off so well. The OP was making the point that someone whose listening room is a mess or absolute disaster clearly can't be relied upon to subjectively review equipment or music, so I was making the contrarian point... |