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| Cheap $88 Sony SS-CS5 Speakers - Awesome Great to know that such quality can be had for so little.More than a few folks have suggested that the real sonic improvements over the last 40/50 years have mostly been at the budget end.Should also help keep the opposition on their toes. I mean ... | |
| Speaker Decision Paralysis (for large volume loft space) Your first choice looks the best. Perhaps if you got suitably matching grilles the speakers would blend in better with your decor?As for the stands, just choose any that fit in and can get the tweeters up to ear height.Or simply place them on top ... | |
| Blue Lights I’m having the opposite problem. I’m looking for a Bluetooth receiver for my phone to connect with my amp and almost all of the darn things come with blue lights!I’d much prefer green (or failing that red or even deep yellow) but not blue.Perhaps ... | |
| The return of the DIYer @alexberger,"Since then, I realized that it was a fiction that the audio industry progress and what a solution for me is vintage audio and DIY audio."You are not the only one as this video from YouTuber VWestlife suggests.Audiophile Audiofoolery:... | |
| The truth about why modern music is so awful. @simonmoon ,"If all one does, is compare mainstream popular forms of music of today, vs from the past, then we agree."And this is what is so depressing. The Zeitgeist of our age has splintered and disappeared into innumerable individual strands.We... | |
| The return of the DIYer Even though it can be cheaper to buy a ready made PC off the shelf some folk still prefer to build their own.When it comes to audio it is always cheaper to build (or at least assemble) equipment yourself.I can't imagine many established companies ... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? @edcyn, No, keep going.What do any of us ultimately have, if not our memories?I sometimes prefer Surf's Up (better sound quality at least) but Pet Sounds with its Spectorish production and the Wrecking Crew on board was no doubt pretty far out.I s... | |
| Is it Possible?? I think so.There was one UK reviewer, Jimmy Hughes, who used to prefer his speakers facing the front wall, ie away from him.I’ve certainly heard speakers that sounded better the further I was from them than usual.It’s as if their harsh distortions... | |
| How to listen /audition at audio shows? @dynamiclinearity,"If a system sounds good at a show it is good. If it doesn’t sound good you can’t be sure what’s going on and if it’s a product that interests you, you need to hear it in other venues."I strongly suspect this is true but usually ... | |
| Aren’t the two main transducers, speakers and cartridge, the most important? @knotscott,"If your system has multiple colored/tinted/distorted pains, then you’re enjoying a kaleidoscope."...which may end up with you favouring certain types of music but staying away from others.Shortly thereafter you may even find you’re onl... | |
| How to listen /audition at audio shows? I was at one a few weeks back (nary a mask anywhere) and was again reminded of the importance of being organised.With so much going on, you really need to know beforehand how best to use your time.For the first hour or so, I was having trouble dis... | |
| Aren’t the two main transducers, speakers and cartridge, the most important? Yes, I’d say so.Mechanical transducers are well known to be the areas where the greatest amounts of measurable distortions are to be found.You could say the same about microphones which are often said to be like loudspeakers in reverse.The entire ... | |
| Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system? Perhaps the definitive answer to what might be considered genuine Heavy Metal can be found here? 1983s Comic Strip Presents - Bad News Tour.https://youtu.be/7ZSOB-bUwCUor alternatively on Dailymotion if you don't have uBlock and happen to live wh... | |
| What song have you played the most? @mrmeaner,Nothing Else Matters? Yes, I love that version too. Possibly still the best example of a genre crossover. Shades of the Moody Blues at their best? @sudharl,High Hopes? Yes, a brilliant way to end an album. Virtually encapsulates everythi... | |
| What song have you played the most? Halloween by Ryan Adams. Rather oddly it's almost 31st October!This one has often been on repeat for many, many hours. https://youtu.be/GwGa20NZmAkThe only other one I can think of Dylan's Fourth Time Around.https://youtu.be/7wSIboHqtXYBoth are od... |