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| Your favorite Jazz album - w/in last 5 years Herbie Hancock: Gershwin's World. | |
| Good Classical discs for "beginners" SDT: Better than the NPR Guide, if you can find it, is "The Virgin Guide to Classical Music" by Jeremy J. Beadle. It takes things chronologically, rather than alphabetically by composer, and provides more historical context and less of the "the fi... | |
| Low Fi / Mid Fi / High Fi ? I don't really think it's a marketing tool, because these terms are almost never used in advertising. Hifi was a marketing term back in the early days of solid state stereo. (I remember my 30-something parents proudly bringing home a walnut cabine... | |
| Good Classical discs for "beginners" I would hate to discourage any effort to draw new listeners to classical music, but I'm not sure I can endorse the sampler approach. I would rather see someone take the playlist from a sampler like this and buy the Naxos version of each of those w... | |
| SACD a 5.1 medium? Jverona: The one major difference between CD and SACD is that the sampling rate is much, much higher on SACD. Whether that actually makes a difference in sound is open to question, however. If you search around, you'll find a lot of technical answ... | |
| Does full range guarantee bass? Where to begin? First of all, "full range" means nothing. It's advertising copy. Buyer beware. (All right, when a-philes use the term, they DO mean something close to 20-20kHz. But any manufacturer can call any speaker in its line "full range.")Ma... | |
| Polk 7, DCM Time Window, RTR Series 3, Larg Advent The Polk dates from the late 70s/early 80s, at a time when Polk was trying to position itself as the American Spendor. With that 8" passive radiator, it was about the smoothest bass you could buy for under $200 a side at the time. | |
| Old Newbie has questions on turntables. You can always try the extension cable, and then build the shelf if that proves unsatisfactory. (Do not spend a lot of time and money trying different cables, however; build the shelf.)The NAD does not have a ground wire, by the way. I bought one ... | |
| The Audio Critic Mebbe. It's been coming out about once a year for the last decade or so, though I can't recall how long it's been since the last issue. (Stereophile had a publication schedule like that in the old days, too.) Basically, it's been one man's obsessi... | |
| Power cord? Why? Fair enough, Twl. First of all, let me say that you are not under attack, and that I think you should be free to decide on whatever products you want to buy based on whatever comparisons you choose to make.Second, let's be clear about what science... | |
| Power cord? Why? But Twl, what about the cases where science CAN explain things, but audiophiles refuse to acknowledge that an explanation exists? I'm alternately amused and offended by people who want to lecture me about what science SHOULD do, while refusing to ... | |
| CD Burning and Compression Really? I'm surprised. I wouldn't think a good codec would behave that way. Of course, MP3 isn't the best codec out there. I may give this a try, but I'm skeptical in the meantime. | |
| Power cord? Why? Are you asking, How does a power cord affect the sound? Or are you asking, What changes in sound do audiophiles notice when they switch power cords? The answer to the first question is, they don't. The answer to the second question is, the sky's t... | |
| CD Burning and Compression Careful on the MP3s--you're talking about two different kinds of compression. MP3s and other codecs are doing data compression. What you want is dynamic compression--raising the soft parts and lowering the loud parts, so to speak. A good MP3 shoul... | |
| CD Burning and Compression I have a similar problem with some classical CDs in my car--all that great dynamic range means that ppp sections just disappear in the road noise. Never had that problem with cassettes taped off LPs!I can't say for sure, but my guess is that CD bu... |