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| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. In all of my experience active speakers were always suggested to be better than passive speakers.The main (only?) drawbacks were always said to be greater expense and greater complexity of setup.Having said that the only active setup I was quite f... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component @hubbman,A nice summing up that could save someone an awful lot of time and money.Whatever magic @mahgister has conjured up through optimum embedding of his system could only be more wondrous through better speakers than his Missions.In my experie... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings @r_f_sayles "..but you can’t fix what wasn’t captured"That's just it. I think thought that digital manipulation of sound is a lot more difficult when it comes to audio than when it comes to images.However when I took a good look at some initially ... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings @stuartk ,Agreed. On a couple of occasions I have put tracks through the open source Audacity software to add a little treble to those which seem to desperately be lacking treble.It’s a bit of a long-winded process of trial and error to see where ... | |
| Why Do So Many Audiophiles Reject Blind Testing Of Audio Components? @millercarbon,"Also at this point I came to realize it makes little sense to go and listen.Why? Because components at a certain level, the very best ones aren’t really doing anything. The perfect component does absolutely zero to make the sound go... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings @audioguy85,"Some of my best recordings are from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. They knew how to record and master back then, today it is mostly a lost art and most remasters suck in my opinion."Good points.It had to be an art back then because of the ... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? If any one of us ever finds themselves in court charged with some serious offence possibly demanding some time inside, then it might be worth showing this thread to your legal team as one possible means of defence.You may even be able to manoeuvre... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings @jumia,"Hi end (and the rest) systems remain at the mercy of lesser quality recordings, past and present."As they must. Such is life.I think we have to assume that the people making the original recording got it right.If they didn’t then no system... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component @coltrane1 It’s truly not complicated. For me it’s ML Summits. Everyone has their own favorite. Personally, I don’t care for boxes. Even open baffles are good. So, there you go. Even the very best speakers have many times more distortion than ALL ... | |
| Why audiophiles are different (explained with color) @mahgister,An audiophile is someone who can transform TOTALLY his room with 1/4 inches straw lenghth.... I guess i am one.... 😉A consumer is someone who will spend many thousand of dollars to do the same thing.... 😎Only superstitious conditioned m... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 @savvygrip,"Seems Rega knows what works best with their creation."That's reassuring.Especially as we are talking about the highly respected top of the range P10.If it was somehow not the case then someone at Rega might need to answer a few questio... | |
| Perfect Pop Songs @ericsch ,Wow, that is brilliant. Thanks!I hadn't heard of Lorrie Morgan but she may well have posted the definitive version of this classic. She must have ice in her veins to stay that cool in such company.Talking of beautiful vocals here's Diann... | |
| Audio PC @snratio,Good post. I've got a real quiet Noctua CPU fan in my PC, but I'd certainly want to go fanless next time.As for the power supply fans, there's some pretty good low-noise units available at reasonable prices nowadays.Any decent PC nowadays... | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? @cleeds ,Edgewood$2,500 cables are a scam. Period.Such silly nonsense. Were your claim true, you’d beat a path to a lawyer and a class action lawsuit and get rich beyond your wildest dreams. But, oddly, those who claim fraud, scam, and snakeoil he... | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? @frogman “tonally bleached out”. Great description that I use often. “Gray”. Can’t stand that type of sound. Instrumental sounds have a lot of natural color.I borrowed that off @prof. He has written some excellent posts here and is usually very ... |