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| Slight hum from left speaker -- Help appreciated I'm assuming that when you say you "changed right and left amp-preamp interconnects (no change)," you mean you changed them only at the amp end, and that the hum stayed on the left. If so, then you've got the problem narrowed down to two suspects:... | |
| Am I nuts or what? Ntscdan: What's nutso about that? ACDR made from vinyl will carry all of vinyl's distinctive characteristics. If you like those characteristics, your CDR will sound better than the commercial CD. And there are several things you can do to the digi... | |
| Am I nuts or what? You're probably not nuts. (Well, you're an audiophile, so you probably ARE nuts, but that's not what's relevant here.) There are two possible explanations for what's going on here. One, as others have said, is bad mastering. There's no guarantee t... | |
| Slight hum from left speaker -- Help appreciated First thing to do is figure out where the hum originates. To do this, you have to switch channels, first on your speaker cables, then working your way up the chain of interconnects. Connect your left-hand cable into your right speaker, and vice ve... | |
| Sound quality of Rhino Records remasters? In general, Rhino is not breaking its back to produce the best sound possible. That doesn't mean they sound lousy, but on average they're probably not much better than the major labels. | |
| neutrality vs. realism Whether you call it "realism" or "musicality" or (probably the most correct term) "euphony," it is definitely not the same thing as neutrality. An analog rig is not neutral--the kinds of distortion inherent in that medium are well-known. But it so... | |
| Attention: Dunlavy Audio Labs out of business I seem to recall that JD himself retired a while back and sold the company to someone else. I suspect his company wasn't worth nearly as much without him there. But his speakers enjoyed a fine reputation, and I would think their resale value will ... | |
| Wayne Shorter Quartet -- a show worth seeing Well, maybe I caught Shorter on an off-night last spring, but I'd have renamed the group, "The Danilo Perez Trio, with cameo appearances by Wayne Shorter." The trio was fantastic, however. | |
| What do you think about this cable company? I think P.T. Barnum was right (and would have been proven right in this case if you'd actually paid for the damned things). | |
| budget split between cart and phono stage Mr. Campbell is right about the challenge facing designers of phono stages. (He didn't mention RIAA equalization, which not every maker does equally well.) But the differences among phono stages are still dwarfed by the differences among cartridge... | |
| budget split between cart and phono stage Cartridges are transducers, like speakers and microphones, so their sonic variations tend to be much greater than electronics. My advice would be to find a cartridge you like, and use whatever money you have left to buy a phono stage, rather than ... | |
| Going SACD or analog? First, stop trying to confuse yourself. This isn't a technology choice. It's a software choice. Where is the music you want to listen to? Vinyl? SACD? No, it's in CDs. A vinyl rig won't play that, and a SACD player won't play it any better than a ... | |
| Top 10 Must-have Classical CD's Anybody's 10 will reveal their tastes, more than anything else. I suggest you get ahold of Ted Libbey's book, "The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection." It's about 300, not 10, but it's a start! | |
| A Little Hypocrisy? CDs cost what they cost because that's what the market will bear. And people who can afford a high-end audio system shouldn't be complaining about the injustices of the marketplace. If you don't like the price, you don't have to buy it. (But that ... | |
| My Next Miles Davis Disc? Well, if enough of us post here, someone is bound to recommend every record the man ever made. (Bitches Brew? Ambient???) My favorite album with his SECOND quintet (Shorter-Hancock-Carter-Williams) is ESP. You might like it too. |