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| Articles You Feel Should be Shared Most popular music styles of the past century as compiled by YouTuber Data is Beautiful. Classical music fans might want to look away. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time @pesky_wabbit ah yes, the good old days of Chris and the flat earth society. In conjunction with the Linn/Naim marketing steamroller they did a pretty good job of brainwashing the British audio mindset for well over a decade, and managed to have... | |
| Books! My problem with books is that 95% are crap. Even if you have access to a large library it can still take a lot of precious time to find something that connects. A bit like searching for new music. There is good stuff out there but you do have t... | |
| Totally overwhelmed (speakers under $5k) @barjohn I would look at Amir’s web site "Audio Science Review" where he performs detailed measurements and listening tests. He has a trained ear and his write ups are excellent. Also, he has top of the line test equipment for speakers and elect... | |
| Which Tweeter preferred- dome natural material, Beryllium/Metal or Planar Ribbon? Why? @jperry It really depends upon the execution of the design and integration in the speaker as a whole. I'd say so too. The best tweeter is one that does not draw attention to itself. I’ve heard some cheap tweeters that didn’t and some expen... | |
| The worst sentence in audio writing It's probably the No1 cliche in audio journalism. I've seen it written far too many times. Sometimes the writer will actually acknowledge it's a cliche beforehand but still go ahead. And yet very few of them will actually provide any meaningful... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time @pesky_wabbit I think it was Hi-Fi Answers, mid 80s I think. Somehow, I got sucked into the Linn/Naim cult after HFA ceased publication and I picked up Hi-Fi Review edited by Chris Frankland. Bad if still an interesting move. Maybe I'm gettin... | |
| Oh Ye of Little Format Time for a gross generalisation interlude? Music in the 50s was made for radiograms? Music in the 60s was made for Dansette type record players which had a speaker built inside it's console? Music in the 70s was made for listening to in cars... | |
| Oh Ye of Little Format It's no surprise to me either. Don't Apple still use their own proprietary 'mastered for iTunes' for their music? It might explain the preference. As you say, the fun never stops when you're an audiophile. Especially amongst like minded fri... | |
| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? The sound of a piano seems to be one of the easiest instruments to recall. In playback it also seems to be one of the easiest ones to detect any sonic issues. As said earlier, it’s an issue of power, weight, and scale. Perhaps tone and reverb t... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time @pesky_wabbit I have found sprakers can be a great killer of PRAT. Me too. I don’t think it’s too bad today but back in the 1990s and 2000s there seemed to be a lot of loudspeakers that would seem to suck out the life of music, unless perha... | |
| What are your favorite "HOT" songs? | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time @jjss49 Apparently most British PA amps weren't very good back in the 1960s and this is what led Julian to believe he could do better himself. I'm pretty sure that most of the nonsense came from the Linn side, although Naim did have their quirk... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Pace, rhythm and timing are desirable commodities no doubt. However, in my experience, systems which do them well often fall down heavily in other areas. This realisation is the reason I moved away from a Linn/Naim system in the first place. Ap... | |
| Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption It’s all too easy to call these experimental injections vaccines. I often fall into that trap myself by force of habit. However since they neither immunize or vaccinate it’s a claim a little too far fetched. I’ve noticed although our own beleagu... |