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| Most desirable vacuum tubes for SET amps Telefunken AD1 | |
| The best looking speakers Wisdom Audio Adrenaline Rush. My wife loves them. | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl Dgarretson, We are in complete agreement regarding SACD and its ability to deliver low-frequency information, extension and low level details. As far as the "LF delineation & tonality" that leads you back to the LP is concerned, I would charac... | |
| SACD vs. Vinyl I believe that the problem is that people, perhaps even the original poster, get dynamic-range and "dynamics" confused. There is no doubt that digital formats of 16 bit depth or greater have more dynamic range than both vinyl and magnetic tape (re... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Dan,No. Nowhere do I say or imply that; although I do have my thoughts on the matter. The discussion, on my part, was about what it takes to make digital sound like analogue. | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Ralph,To quote an Audiophile approved source, John Atkinson:Perhaps his description of its sound being "analog-like" is a clue—for reasons that are not fully understood, a signal with very-low-level random noise added is sometimes preferred, on th... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Ralph,The truth of the matter is that the only way to make digital sound like analogue is to add distortion. This is not confined to the studio/professional-audio world; have you seen the measurements in the review of the the Playback Design MSP-5... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Ralph,I think that you missed the gist of the article. It was not an analogue versus digital, which sound better? article; but rather and article concerning why added distortion, by way of phase manipulation and harmonic enhancement/restructuring,... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Les creative edge,Well said!!!!! I concur. The "purist" audiophile approach is just a flawed ideal and like other sacred things, some use it to extort or out of ignorance. I'm personally not "holier than thou" as I was there once myself but once t... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained Ralph,I think that you simplify the matter to suit your needs. Let's review:Reel-to-Reel(tape playback), tubes and transformers (to a lesser extend) all create distortion in the form of phase shifts and alter the harmonic structure often to increa... | |
| The "great" sound of reel to reel explained "Plenty of variables to play with tape (reel-to-reel playback)! These parameters introduce distortions of harmonic content (particularly at low frequencies), and frequency and phase-response irregularities, and they reduce dynamic range, mainly af... | |
| Puccini+Uclock vs APL NWO 4.0 SE vs PD MPS-5 Jonathan,This is a very interesting comment: "There is too much distortion and noise produced by tubes." considering that the second and third order harmonic distortion that John Atkinson measured during his measurements for the Stereophile review... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Crna39, Bruce, you are obviously oblivious to the implications! It means that the AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs comparison is not an apples-to-apples comparison but rather an "organic apple" to a "genetically altered apple" comparison. Would you li... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Mike,Can you address the Playback Design's harmonic distortion artifacts that John Atkinson found in his measurements for the Stereophile review? | |
| 3D stereo sound with 4 speakers + room correction Johnny,Please take a look at this website for some insight on what has been done and tried in this realm:http://www.ambiophonics.org |