cd318
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| The Economy.. will hi end audio mfgs lower prices? @rodman99999 Well, the great crash of 2008 was also due to corporate greed. You could call it a practice run. Corporate greed has moved on in leaps and bounds since then. And this time the government isn't even bothering to hide the fact that... | |
| My take on subjective vs. objective Subjectivity is only what you think. An opinion. An impression. Something depending on no more than a casual mood. Something that can change from month to month, week to week, day to day. Or sometimes, from even hour to hour. A never-endi... | |
| My take on subjective vs. objective Imagine a world where all audio equipment was designed by listening alone. A world with no reference points. No frequency response data. No dispersion plots. No resonance waterfalls. No calibrated crossovers. Now imagine a world where it ... | |
| My take on subjective vs. objective @asctim Do Pepsi and Coke (or Budweiser and Heineken) still taste the same once you know which is which? Or only after you know which is which? I think it’s undeniable that adding a visual element to any comparison is bound to influence the co... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @bdp24 For another "perfect song" I would nominate November Spawned a Monster by Morrissey. It's quite amazing just how many great songs Morrissey has recorded in his post Smiths career. For me, he's up there alone with Dylan when it com... | |
| Great classical pianists Glenn Gould, Murray Perahia and Vladimir Ashkenazy all come to mind. If you want sad, then the middle section (adagio) from around 11 mins 30 below might well be the most sublime piece of music ever recorded. | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? @serjio Waterloo Sunset has little to do with the battle of Waterloo, what some have called the most important few hours of the 19th century. It's more to do with life in the district of Waterloo, not far from Charing Cross and Waterloo Station... | |
| When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one... @analogj You reminded me of the time I was at a show where the same manufacturer was exhibiting 2 large floorstanding models. The cheaper model was about £3k and it's bigger brother was nearer £10k. The bigger speakers clearly had more weig... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Very few songs ever recorded are as likely to blow your socks off like this one. A real treat for those with systems possessing good dynamics - if not for their neighbours! | |
| Techniques for isolating and comparing a component upgrade or change @socalml528 Yea, I'm guilty at times, but most of us would not be on this forum if we weren't tinkering with details. Sometime its just fun for me to obsess, other times, I just relax, sit back and enjoy the music and lyrics. It's taken me y... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Shure V15 - the best cartridges of all time? "Moving coil fans must be gritting their teeth at the audacious title that suggests the V15 might be the best cartridge series of all time. Sure, there are more expensive cartridges, and moving coil f... | |
| Techniques for isolating and comparing a component upgrade or change @socalml528 Is there another way to measure small changes that an alternative mat may produce? An approach that might work for comparing other small changes like new cables or other components? Not as far as I know. Quick a/b swapping is be... | |
| The thing about objectivists is... Towards the end of his life Bertrand Russell was asked by an interviewer what did he did think about that time his boat capsized and he had to swim to the shore. Did he have any great thoughts etc? If I remember correctly, his reply was that ... | |
| The thing about objectivists is... @jasonbourne52 After Enlightenment the mountains are still the mountains. To the point. Reality is always the final arbiter. | |
| What are some of the mistakes, failures or bad purchases of your audio history? Every single CD player I bought proved to be disappointingly similar to the previous one. Despite all of the glowing reviews they were getting. My current machine, a Marantz CD 6000ki had nothing but wholly enthusiastic reviews yet it sounded re... |