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| Budget system not up to expectations... Painter: One possible explanation that no one's mentioned yet: Buyer's Remorse. You've spent all this time and money, and you're expecting WOW! And all you get is EH? I don't think a $400 integrated is going to solve your problem. I suggest that y... | |
| I don't understand Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" JLC: I'd like to recommend a book to you. It's called "What Jazz Is," and it's written by a pianist named Jonny King. It's a great, accessible introduction, and includes an analysis of 10 cuts from 10 classic Blue Note recordings that straddle KOB... | |
| What was your latest LP find?? "Time for Tyner" by McCoy Tyner, new. No idea who put it out. | |
| sacd vs xrcd First of all, XRCD is primarily a mastering process, and it's not clear that we can clone the geniuses at JVC who do it, so mass production and economies of scale may not be in the cards. Audiophiles are simply too small a market segment to make i... | |
| What is "critical listening"? Critical listening is what you do when you're trying to evaluate or decide between components. Listening is what you do the rest of the time. We've all been "critical listeners" since the day we started shopping for our first system. How much time... | |
| How old is too old ?.... First, if it ain't broke, you don't have to fix it. You like your system now? There's no need to change. Beyond that, the only appropriate advice is, go out and listen. Only you can decide if there's something better for you out there. | |
| Sonic Relativism? Twl: I think just about every sentence of your post here is factually wrong, so responding would take me all day. You've mischaracterized the assertions of those you disagree with, which is a clever but illegitimate form of argument.That said, I'l... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? Setting up a truly objective blind test (one that eliminates all of the biases that scientists claim are inherent in sighted comparisons) is not a trivial matter. Plus, you need at least a smattering of statistics training to properly interpret th... | |
| Cable vs. Electronics: biggest bang for the buck Nah, Gumby. Home Depot and $7495 worth of XRCDs. | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? If you were making a machine that played both a new and an established format, and you were trying to promote the new format, wouldn't you make damned sure the older format didn't sound as good? And do you realize how easy it would be to do that? | |
| Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs? Hybrid SACDs won't protect the record companies (and artists!) from pirating, unless the CD layer is copy-protected.What will get the public buying is not reissues, but new material. When the next Britney Spears album comes out ONLY on hybrid SACD... | |
| Cable vs. Electronics: biggest bang for the buck Bigtee: Well, Toole is justifying his own (well-regarded) approach to speaker design. What he shows is a correlation between frequency response (measured in an anechoic chamber) and listener evaluation (blind, of course). There are a lot of reason... | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? Out of curiosity, how did the reviewer like the sound of this high-priced but technically questionable component? How much you wanna bet it makes the next Recommended Components List? | |
| Cable vs. Electronics: biggest bang for the buck Bigtee: Actually "we" are closer to good measurements correlating with good sound than you might think. The trouble is, they are not necessarily the same measurements, taken the same way, that manufacturers report specs or magazine reviewers do me... | |
| Cable directionality The arrows are there to satisfy audiophiles who think directionality matters. Of course, it's AC, so the signal is constantly going in both directions. |