bipod72
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| 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... | |
| New Pink Floyd release It's intriguing but I'd rather try and track down a copy of the 5.1 recording (30th edition) than buy the box set. Then I could do a comparison of that 5.1 to the original stereo version I have on CD. I think this is for hard core completists and ... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? @larsman What does and doesn't surprise me is that there's a market for rare bootlegs now from a collector's standpoint but certainly not from an audiophile standpoint. You're right that many/most were dreadful audience recordings. I recall readin... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? @jjbeason14 The last time I saw U2 live was the Joshua Tree tour. After that, the venues were too big and getting great tickets became a struggle. One of my favorite live albums Under a Blood Red Sky. When they played at Red Rocks for the War tour... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? @larsman Oh I realize the OP wasn't talking about bootleg recordings BUT for a period of time in the 70s through the 80s there were vinyl bootleg pressings of live shows that, for all appearances, looked like legitimate label pressings. I had seve... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? I have to question anyone who thinks a live concert trumps a studio recording with regards to audio quality. It makes me think they haven't seen as many disappointing/meh live shows as a reference or are very selective about who they see in concer... | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! Welcome to the club. I'm sure you'll find it a slippery slope in many ways. Equipment tweaking, treasure seeking, and aural euphoria. But don't give up on digital. If anything, the format can help you find good and bad vinyl. I don't konw that you... |