bishopwill
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| What High End Manufacturers Could Learn From Bose Thanks for some thoughtful and illuminative posts on this thread. Let me add another perspective.It seems to me that two phenomena interact here: (1) Quest for the best possible sound WITHIN ONE'S OWN FRAME OF REFERENCE, and (2) pride of ownership... | |
| Vienna Acoustics vs Revel Studios? I agree with your decision to try different amplification. If that doesn't yield satisfaction then reconsider the Mahler which, for my 200,000 nickels, is a far more musical speaker than the Revel, at about the same price. As to their size, well..... | |
| What should I plug my system into? Power conditioners DO make a difference. This from an old quasi-objectivist who will be glad to give you an A-B evaluation in his living room.That being said, I don't think the extremely costly ones are worth the price. In my own case, a Monster 5... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Good points, KT. When I have fairly naive (aka Bose or boom box) listeners over, I usually play music through my HT system (Paradigm/Parasound) rather than my music system (JMLab Utopia/Belles/Rega). I do this for two reasons. First, the warmish, ... | |
| The Absolute Sound Review of Sony SCD-XA777ES ??? Hey, Whatjd,I hope you didn't hear my remarks as a personal put-down. I, too, miss the equipment list and wonder why Miss WhatsHerFace can't find three column inches to include it now that TAS is fat and sassy again.I'm inclined to believe that it... | |
| TOTALLY CONFUSED about analog Clueless (which you are far from, may I say), I really agree with you. At its best, vinyl offers lush, beautiful sound that, in my opinion, CAN BE but seldom IS matched by anything digital. It goes without saying, too, that there is an awful lot o... | |
| TOTALLY CONFUSED about analog Thanks, pbb. It really is only a joke because bacon isn't always frying. Sometimes popcorn is popping and occasionally kids are setting off firecrackers in the back yard.My suggestion: Buy a really good CD player or transport/DAC combo, some good ... | |
| Cable dollar allocation I thought the "rule" in all things audio is buy what you can hear that you can afford.And have fun, of course. | |
| The Absolute Sound Review of Sony SCD-XA777ES ??? The review is "worthful" with or without an associated equipment list if and to the extent that you trust the ears of Mr. Cordesman and Mr. Harley. If you think that afiles get wacky in their preferences for equipment and its effect on outcome, yo... | |
| TOTALLY CONFUSED about analog And develop an appetite for bacon because once you begin to listen to vinyl there will always be some frying in the background.That's a JOKE, folks!!!! | |
| Home Theater Neophyte-Speaker Recommendations? Just an observation here. I'd be really cautious about buying new equipment from ebay. My impression is that the prices are no better than you can find from a quality dealer and with ebay there is no after-purchase support at all.Used equipment is... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? I have a couple of friends who make absolute nuisances of themselves hinting and hemming and hawing for invitations to come over and listen to my good system. They wanna bring stacks of their own CDs (and wow does one of them have terrible taste) ... | |
| Two systems? Why? Maybe this is another thread: which is more important in HT, the audio or the video? Tubegroover and Slartibartfast argue for video but that isn't the case for me. When video freaks start in about their chrominance plots and their line doub--uh, t... | |
| Two systems? Why? Reading your gear lists really gives me the drools! :)Re vinyl: I agree that the sound is delicious. As is the bacon that I always hear frying in the background. Yummmm.Re tubes: Just prefer the analytical sound of SS. | |
| What the heck is a power cord? To be honest, I'm not sure that I hear enough of a difference between good $50 power cords and great $500 power cords to make the expensive ones worth the price. One thing is for sure, though, if the cord/outlet/wiring/circuit breaker can't delive... |