calvinandhobbes
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| Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound? I have found Jazz to be one of the tougher music genres to reproduce via an audio system. The tone quality of instruments is important with the right balance of smoothness and attack (but without artificial sibilance to the leading edge of notes).... | |
| Good Inexpensive USB Cables? FWIW, a Phasure Lush (original) sounds both smoother and more detailed than a Shunyata Venom USB cable. | |
| Anyone still do insightful or intelligent lyrics? This was particularly meaningful to me from Sarah Jarosz' album World on the Ground from this past year. What makes a life complete?Roads traveled and the people you meet?Or is just the silence of the times in between?Written by a 28 year old, but... | |
| Most rooms don’t need acoustical treatment. I've got my system set up in our master bedroom with a big queen bed on one side of the room and nightstands on both sides. No, the room is not cluttered at all, but it also doesn't look like a typical listening room with monoblock speakers on the... | |
| Ethernet cables +1. I really like starting with equipment that is inexpensive, because I don’t subscribe to the view that more expensive must be better & my hearing seems to bear that out. However, sometimes expensive equipment truly is better, but even then ... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? @mofojo local files still do sound better to me than Qobuz, but I'm happy to listen via Qobuz for new music and other music that I don't have locally. | |
| Ethernet cables @mesch That’s a sensible approach. That’s what I did with digital cables and power as well over the past year as I was open to WHETHER cables and power make a difference, but wanted to spend as little as possible for a given level of subjective so... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? My listening notes: My subjective impressions of the musicality and sound quality of the major HD streaming services:QobuzPrimephonicSpotify Premium (320 kbps Ogg Vorbis which is not lossless)IDAGIOAmazon HDTidal Round 1, Spotify Premium vs Qobu... | |
| Best way to hook up Denafrips I'm a skeptic as well about cables generally, but 100% believe that some cables sound better than others. The key is to listen to the cables in your own system and see if you hear a difference. I tested out 5 USB cables recently as I'm sorting out... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? +1 to what @georgehifi says.Streaming can sound quite enjoyable, it's just not quite as good as playing back local files and definitely not as good as vinyl. However, I find that in this year of COVID and working from home that I'm streaming most ... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @mowkewp4 I’ve listened to the B&W 704 S2 in a demo, but ended up getting the Monitor Audio Silver 300. The MA has the defined treble of the B&W and sounds incredibly "fast" for a dynamic speaker. The Silver 300s have a a smoother top end ... | |
| Ethernet cables Haha, of course. I see there's no convincing to be done here.When you say science, you must mean a Flat Earther type of science. | |
| Ethernet cables The cable is NOT a filter. Read what I wrote: " It works better because it lets in less interference." | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? Local files sound better to me than streaming, but streaming can sound enjoyable. The real benefit of streaming is the ability to switch music really easily and to have 100s of thousands of music tracks accessible whenever you want them. It's been... | |
| Ethernet cables @antigrunge2 All good. I do find the comments of the bits-are-bits crowd to be amusing in their absolute conviction in their correctness due to their lack of knowledge. (kind of like the Flat Earther of audio). In all fairness, I don't expect ever... |