cd318
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| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Brilliant responses, really impressed. Audio Note (Hemp?), Harbeth and DeVore are names that often come up. Joseph Audio sounds like one to watch out for. Tannoy, I'm quite familiar with.By rich timbre I guess I mean that you can clearly hear the ... | |
| Removing spikes... Now my speakers sing Whether you prefer spikes or not it is indisputable that their use increases the amount of resonance measured in the baffle.As usual it boils down to where you want to put those unavoidable resonances. Nowadays we are seeing a greater awareness of... | |
| Audio Reviewers & The Music They Use In Their Reviews As far as I can remember reviewers have always tended to use non mainstream music. The same at shows. Perhaps it's a bit like fashion and the same argument about presentation can be used. Your point about cheap systems for Rock is a valid one. How... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? "It helps to hear, literally, what is going on, by listening to the cabinet’s walls through a stethoscope, playing music and test tones. You find two things:Flexing of the cabinet walls allows low bass to come through. Out in your room, this adds ... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? What a difficult pastime this is to get any sense out of? First of all no two people interpret the movement of air in the same fashion. What sounds like cacophonous noise to some can be interpreted as sweet music to others.Then there's the problem... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Measured performance versus cost levels off alarmingly early with cables, amps, digital sources. Especially if you were under the impression that you were paying extra for gains in measurable performance. Once you’ve seen one CAD CDP or SS amplifi... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? @georgehifi your post about the surfboard hits the nail on the head. It's easy to think that stiffer/stronger/more solid must be better, yet all the strength in the world is no good if the cabinet becomes a soundboard at a critical frequency, es... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? Everything resonates. Surely it's a question of where you put these resonances.I believe it's far too easy to muffle the midrange with MDF or medite. Many specialist manufacturers purposely avoid the use of MDF for their cabinets, or at the least ... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? If you're listening to the sound of the equipment then it's totally failing to do it's job regardless of price.I've certainly had my fair of hearing expensive systems sounding bland and 'monochromatic' before. Then there were the Quad electrostati... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? Obviously, if you take high end to be mean high quality, and not merely price. If you’ve only ever been listening to 128kps MP3 files through low quality headphones your experience will be limited and can only be valid for yourself. It can hardly ... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @glupson, absolutely right. Every word.How do Bose do it? They started here as a mail order business with extravagant sound quality claims and now everyone has heard of them, right up there with JBL. Yet also in the UK hardly anyone has heard of (... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? The problem with a $1000 system is finding budget speakers which do fast, deep bass. Bose have always been clever at how they handle the extremes, and many regard them as them as the high end in not only prestige terms but also sonically. In fact ... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? It's always down to personal choice how much you want to spend. Experience has taught me that if I had to build a system from scratch I'd be looking at 75% on loudspeakers, 10% on CD player, 10% on amplification and 5% absolute tops on cables/anci... | |
| What hi res file is better 96/24 or 192/16 ? @phil9624, Good for you that you can hear a night and day difference between standard and hi-res.It’s a pity you can no longer enjoy redbook CDs although I agree that many of the MFSL / SHM were no improvement on the original CD transfers (dynamic... | |
| What hi res file is better 96/24 or 192/16 ? For what it's worth I find it very difficult to hear any improvement at least in the digital landscape over 44.1 kHz (Redbook CD). I did try out Dylan's Love and Theft on SACD but the results were inconclusive. Generally the standard CD was prefer... |