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| Listening Through Walls at Show: Vodoo or Valid? This would be a very bad way to make even cheap decisions about components. The three most important determinants of sound are speakers, room software. Note the one in the middle. Now, think about the "listening room" you're doing this highly scie... | |
| Are all copper cables virtually oxygen free? Parrot: If I'm not mistaken, 4 nines means 99.99%, and 6 nines means 99.9999%. Your question is still a good one, however. | |
| Are all copper cables virtually oxygen free? Short answer: Yes. But what's called "oxygen-free" is a little more oxygen-free than the regular stuff (assuming the label is honest). There is no technical reason why that extra purity should make a difference (though there's a lot of mumbo-jumbo... | |
| amateur needs advice Gee, Munich, what is it you don't enjoy about your music now? That's the first question. If you're really dissatisfied, the two most obvious approaches are to work on improving your room and replacing your speakers (adding a subwoofer also counts)... | |
| Latest SACD News - Very Interesting. The point everyone seems to be missing is that Universal has denied that they are switching over to hybrids. That could be smoke, but if it were they could have done a much better job of fudging. Apparently, they told Stereophile that it just wasn... | |
| Hybrid SACD the new standard? I'm always suspicious of news stories based on interviews that begin with the words, "Psst, buddy!" No single record company is going to stop producing CDs that list for $18 and switch to hybrids that list for $23. They do have to compete, you kno... | |
| superbit? What is it? I was under the impression that Dolby Digital and DTS had fixed compression rates (unlike, say, MP3s). In that case, the soundtrack on both standard and superbit DVDs would be identical unless the studio went to the trouble of remastering--and why... | |
| Collective letter s to Stereophile Seems to me if you want to read a lot of new reviews, the current S-pile is not for you. (If you want some technical analysis of what is reviewed, it's one of the only games in town.)On the other hand, there are a gazillion items on their Recommen... | |
| Can you get great analog sound from analog tape? Agreed, Greg. A good tape recording of vinyl playback will certainly capture the "intrinsic qualities of vinyl," as you call them. Whereas a CD made from an analogue master tape will not. (Which just goes to show that it's not being analogue that ... | |
| Can you get great analog sound from analog tape? Since I don't own a reel-to-reel, I cannot attest to this, but I'd be a bit surprised if an analogue tape copy were truly sonically indistinguishable from the vinyl original. Whatever wires you used. | |
| Can you get great analog sound from analog tape? Soundstage? Sure. Speaker/room interaction (along with the original recording) is the key factor in soundstage, so the key question is, how well does the recorder preserve the locational information on the original recording? Good reel-to-reel cer... | |
| Excellent recording of Mozart Jupiter No.41 ? My favorites, in rough order, would be Hogwood, Mackerras, and Karl Bohm. Last I checked, however, the Hogwood was only available in a boxed set of Mozart symphonies--a great value if you want the works, but an expensive way to get one or two. If ... | |
| Do power cords really matter? Not this again. A power cord is not an extension of a wall outlet. It is an extension of the cable leading to the wall outlet. And yes, there are all sorts of ways you can play with that power. But not to worry, Tburn, you are not the only person ... | |
| Copper Deterioration? Exposed portions of a cable will oxidize over time. Of course, the exposed portions are not what is making the connection. So its impact on sound is, shall we say, open to question.I do agree that you shouldn't waste your money on expensive copper... | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio Will: I suspect that if you spent an hour reading any audio writer's work you'd get whiplash from all the internal contradictions (with the exception of a few objectivist types who know exactly what they think at all times). What's available for f... |