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| speaker cable and interconnect different brands? The brand is just what they stamp on the outside. Doesn't matter a wit. Only the performance matters. (And it's quite possible that different brands buy their wire from the same source.) | |
| Will Microsoft kill DVD-A and SACD? Several Microsoft principals are known to be deeply interested in music. When you're as rich as Microsoft, you can buy things just for the fun of it. Maybe they bought it for no better reason than that. | |
| Will Microsoft kill DVD-A and SACD? Well, if they price it too high, they're more likely to kill of HDCD than anything else. | |
| What group do you wish would be remastered? Re: My comment of 4/25 on "Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page": Seems somebody did, in fact, remaster this about two years ago, a little joint in Norwalk CT called Mooreland St. Records. Apparently Page got wind of it and may have shut down its d... | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners Lngbruno: XRCD is not a "format," it's just a marketing term for a very good mastering process involving a little bit of technology and a lot of care. Given that there are few audiophiles out there, it would never pay the majors to spend the extra... | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners Albert: A very revealing anecdote about the Walton tape. Many audiophiles want to blame the technology for the quality of the software we can buy. But too often it's the mastering work that gets in the way. I'd bet the human element would have don... | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners With all due respect to those who see this as a modern-day version of the Hatfields and the McCoys, some of us do rest in the middle. I happen to like the sound of vinyl, and listen to plenty of it. But I don't need to make myself feel good by spo... | |
| What Rags carry the most review weight??? I'm with Thor. Read reviews for entertainment, and for the fun of salivating over things you'll never own, or even hear in many cases.But reviewers' reactions to components are as random as magazines' decisions about what to review. | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners I think it's very unlikely that the record companies will be able to use hybrid SACDs to raise prices on people buying just for the CD. I presume they're charging as much as they can get for those CDs now. If people were willing to pay more, they'... | |
| Is the "red dot" the same as R or L? Most of us tend to think red=right, though there's no guarantee that every manufacturer implements it that way. About the only time this would really matter is if you were comparing LP and CD of the same recording, in which case you would notice t... | |
| What is the best Beatle Song For No One | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners Newton: I seem to recall some early concerns about the quality of adhesives used in CDs or something, but that was a long time ago. I've got CDs that old or older, and they're fine. Old news, my friend.As for SACD, it will not "arrive" until Britn... | |
| Where to buy LP It can depend on what type of music you're looking for. For a few ideas, see the old thread: Used records/CDs in NYC? | |
| Reaching the end of a music collection Lately I've been burrowing through the bins of LPs in my basement--the overflow that doesn't fit on the shelf in the living room--and rediscovering some gems I hadn't heard in a long while. I've even bought some new items because I wanted to hear ... | |
| Greatest American Rock and Role Bands of ALL Time The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, w/Mike Bloomfield. |