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| Unbelievable Indeed Bwhite: Your experience isn't unbelievable at all. The only thing that's unbelievable are the explanations for it.Have you considered painting your room to match the brass fixture? | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio Lucy (or Barney): There are lots of reasons why we can't get close to reproducing the original sound (starting with the four walls of your listening room), but microphone cables ain't one of them.This all reminds me of a story I once heard of a ca... | |
| Some thoughts about value in high-end audio Interesting reactions to this post so far (and thanks to SDC for posting it). I think a few posters are getting hung up on the 5:1 issue--that's a rule of thumb, not an iron law. It gives you a benchmark. If you pay more than that, you need to ask... | |
| Cables "Burn In" Now, PBB. If Agon really were as one-sided as that, would your post even make it past the moderators? Certainly, this site is dominated by one point of view, and yes, that point of view is good for Agon's bottom line. But there seems to be some ro... | |
| What after the old CD player? CDP, SACD or DVD-a? My money is on neither SACD or DVD-A making it. By making it, I mean getting to the point where all new releases appear in that format (at which point a substantial chunk of the back catalog will be remastered for the format as well). The best mus... | |
| Am I going insane? What Bose is good at is making products that appeal to non-audiophiles--which, if you think about it, is very smart business. Yes, their speakers are small (to appeal to people who have other priorities besides sound), and that Bose sound does jum... | |
| How do I choose a decent system? You've got an 800-square-foot room and you're worried about the system being too conspicuous???Seriously, it's hard to give specific advice for a very unspecific problem (maybe a turntable; maybe an MP3 player?), but the general advice I'd give is... | |
| Am I going insane? The important thing--the only really important thing--is to buy what you like. If you like the Bostons, then they are right for you. If you want to be sure, listen to them again with a different amp. But I doubt the amp is a major factor here, unl... | |
| Used records/CDs in NYC? Thanks for the leads. I scored a couple of out-of-print CDs I'd been looking for at Academy Records & CDs (W. 18th), and found some cheap vinyl at Downtown Music Gallery (E. 5th). Other good, but pricier, stops for vinyl were Finyl Vinyl and A... | |
| Why JVC XRCDs are so expensive? Laoyuap: I don't know why Telarc lowered its prices on SACDs. Maybe they think the extra volume of sales will more than make up for the unit loss, or maybe they're just trying to move back inventory. I tend to assume that when a company like JVC p... | |
| Why JVC XRCDs are so expensive? Sorry, cd, if I put more into your brief post than was there. I'd expect that a well-mastered low-resolution disc will always be better than a not-so-well-mastered high-resolution disc. I'd also expect that two identically mastered discs, one CD a... | |
| Why JVC XRCDs are so expensive? Tuna: You're comparing apples and oranges. XRCD is a mastering process. SACD is a medium. An SACD can sound great or lousy, depending on how it's mastered. I predict that someday JVC will come out with XRSACDs, which will sound demonstrably better... | |
| Any scientific data on cable burn-in? Of course not. But Justacoder's link is good for a laugh. | |
| Why JVC XRCDs are so expensive? One likely culprit is volume. Since the audiophile disc market is so small, JVC has to spread its fixed costs, like remastering, over many fewer units. But I wouldn't discount the idea that pricing it higher makes it seem better. (But an audiophil... | |
| Beginner in Vinyl - How far should I go? First, the cheapo units the big boxes sell tend to have proprietary cartridges that track at several grams, which is not healthy for vinyl and other living things. At the really low end, Technics used to make a few tables that took p-mount cartrid... |