bipod72
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| 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every few years there's a new trend or technology push and suddenly your functionally and fully capable custom bicycle is obsolete in some way.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... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! Nothing is more insulting to the music than some audiophile's listening room that is set up like some sterile audio lab with a lone chair centered in a room where nothing is allowed to "live" in it except for some aesthetically awful acoustical pa... | |
| Why Are We Breaking Our Brains? As someone whose work straddles the quantitative and the instinctual I understand and sympathize with the desire to measure & verify and also going with one's gut. I enjoy digging into the numbers but I also don't get too hung up on them. Hi-... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs You've discovered the methodology for removing the warmth from vinyl. | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? Vinyl, despite the Record Industry's spurious claims that it is the best selling format by $value, but CDs still outsell vinyl and streaming overwhelms them both on a per unit basis. Even digital downloads do better than vinyl. Keep in mind, the R... | |
| I Was Stunned As someone who has designed furniture and cabinets in the past, including A/V credenzas, there's a way to get good vibration control without fabricating 300+ pound pipe racks in your house. Aesthetics aside (not everyone likes the upscale dorm fu... | |
| Who is using a desktop headphone rig? I use the Schitt HEL 2.0 for my laptop/desktop w/ a pair of Sennheiser HD650s and it's a good little setup for my use. When I'm working from home or gaming on the laptop I strictly use headphones and the Schitt was worth the $200. I like the tacti... | |
| 50 years of Hip Hop- How Come? There are plenty of new genres & subgenres of music that have emerged in the last 40 years that you're probably not aware of or maybe never listened to before. Much in the vein of electronic, industria and hip hop. Hip hop has entire subgenres... | |
| Made in USA I buy American made products when I can but it's not because I'm patriotic or feel the need to cover myself or my window shield in flag decals. I buy American made products to support local companies and manufacturing. I like to make & fix my ... | |
| I feel bad for Generation X and The Millennial's Oh man...the drug called nostalgia is running high. It’s pretty telling that the window of "greatest music ever" is limited to one decade of their life. It’s as if Boomers are ashamed of all the great music they grew up listening to as kids and te... |