cd318
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| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? @aberyclark,"If one were to make one final version of a master tape and store away that Master for many years. What method would capture everything the tape had to offer so future engineers could use that new source as the master?"Perhaps you woul... | |
| Help my analog sound as good as my streaming @arize84,An excellent post, so much to agree with."The ratio of funds needed to be spent on analog to match digital quality is significant (at least 2x or more).Disregard any talk about vinyl being better than digital, there are simply too many va... | |
| CD player reliability.... good and bad. I was quite surprised to find so many broken CD players up for sale on eBay. At all prices.It's also disappointing to see so many Arcam players on there with faults as I'd generally taken them to be a reliable make.As it was pointed out earlier th... | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! @mahgister,I think Peter Aczel’s point was that all box speakers always have some tendency to sound like boxes.Here is his full quote: "Loudspeakers are a different story. No two of them sound exactly alike, nor will they ever. All, or at least ne... | |
| SQ vs. Music I would like to say that I always listen to the music first.However that wouldn’t be true. Just a few weeks ago I found myself beginning to feel a bit sick listening to the Jam compilation Direction Reaction Creation.Something felt wrong, despite ... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear @dayglow,"IMO any recording that sold over 100k copies is not obscure regardless of when it was recorded."That’s the great thing about music - worthy albums eventually tend to become less obscure over time. By the time I got into music the Velvet ... | |
| Internal Wire Gauge? @elliottbnewcombjr"If/when you take the bottoms off vintage equipment or backs off vintage speakers, you will be amazed how small and common the wires were/are."@audio2design,"And yet $100,000 CD players (and amps) are built on PCBs using generic ... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear There's a couple mentioned so far that I'm going to check out. Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is an album that I've often seen mentioned but the lack of a single probably resulted in it not getting much radio play.The other is the Moody Blue... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? I once heard some B&W 601s at a show with some friends. They were on chrome pedestal stands being driven by some Arcam gear. We were all surprised that such small speakers could sound so large.I later auditioned some 602s and whilst I didn’t e... | |
| The Much Maligned MP3? @mahgister,"Acoustic is so powerful that most upgrades seems small compared to it after the treatment and especially the acoustic controls are in place, unbeknownst to most people conditioned by market consumerism of gear in the form of reviews...... | |
| Advice on desk speakers I’m still using the 2.1 Dell Zylux (Logitech) A425 speakers that came with my PC way back in 2004.I cannot speak highly enough of them.They cost peanuts to pick up nowadays and they’re the one item I have not had the urge to ever update. It would ... | |
| The Much Maligned MP3? @millercarbon,"MP3 simply sounds like crap."I would like to start by apologising if you were triggered by the word prejudice, but your reply perfectly highlights the very point I was making. You do realise that many folk cannot distinguish between... | |
| Do you ever miss vintage gear you no longer have? Yes, I once carelessly got rid of a Garrard turntable that my dad offered me for free.It wasn't mentioned in any of the magazines of the day and being young and impressionable I assumed this relic from yesteryear couldn't be very good. All the tal... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @mahgister,"It is the ROOM.....No speaker can exceed his room, any controlled room can exceed any part of the audio system in potential S.Q."I'm inclined to agree. My modest music centre did sound pretty good in our old house. My current system is... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @adg101,Over the years I’ve not seen ProAcs getting much flak from users.@inna,"Listening at moderate levels might help a little."It does. Every single speaker I’ve ever owned began to throw out unacceptable levels of bass and treble distortion on... |