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| Does a taste for high end audio, also carry over into your other interests? @whatjd ,Possessions, what are they good for?They can’t love you back, they can’t stave off death, and they can’t restore health.But they can help keep your inner child alive, and that’s important. Really important.I used to be so clingy to stuff,... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list @skypunk,'Wow so this turned in to a COVID String.That’s cool as I had it back in March was sick for a week. Back skating and base jumping. No hockey yet and have both my Ducati race motors on the bench so no runs to Austin and COTA. Hope all of y... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list @douglas_schroeder ,Thanks for the information. My brother in law is also fit and strong and he said it knocked him for 24 hours. He was saying he could feel it going up and down his body all night.Yet his wife and kids hardly had a cold.I just we... | |
| 2021 audio system wish list @douglas_schroeder "(Before Christmas I contracted Covid-19 and double pneumonia. I was hospitalized for three days, but am on the mend.)"That's quite disturbing to read, but I'm glad you pulled through.Good luck with getting to a full recovery. | |
| Rega Planar 3 : Heavily upgraded yet produces a sound that I don't like This highlights the real dangers of tweaking. Despite what others might say (esp paid reviewers), after much cost in time and money you can easily end up with a wholly undesirable result. One that will never recoup all the extra money invested. I ... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? Hollies - Gasoline Alley BredI’m gonna heat me some waterPut a shine upon my shoesTelephone my ma, keep the room above Joe’s’Cause we’re comin’ back, comin’ back to the homesteadEverythin’ is packed, gettin’ back to the homesteadThis time, this ti... | |
| Dirt cheap set-up @simao "But for a $70 (total) turntable, it wasn’t bad at all. It’ll be in the family room system where my boys ( 9 and 7) can use to learn the joys of handling and listening to vinyl."No, it’s not bad at all. Vinyl memories tend to remain the str... | |
| Better speakers I think attitudes towards censorship can often reveal an awful lot.I particularly like that quote by the infamous print mogul Charles Foster Kane, or as he's also known, William Randolph Hearst."News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all... | |
| thumb drive for source? @marqmike That's a pity as it's got a lot going for it.It's robust, easy to backup, inconspicuous and works well with downloads.I still burn the occasional CDR, had to do a Christmas compilation recently, but straight from USB would give a similar... | |
| What album have you bought in the most different formats. @stereo5 ,"That makes 16 versions. Is it a new world record?"It might be. The only other album I can think that might have as many versions is Kind of Blue, but I’ve not heard of anyone having 16 variants of it! (unless there’s someone over on the... | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" As the author states."My aim is (1) to highlight what is absent in the aesthetic experience of listening to music through digital formats and equipment, and (2) to refute the idea that vinyl enthusiasts are mere snobs using outdated technology jus... | |
| What album have you bought in the most different formats. Abbey Road Cassette - hissy sound but I loved itVinyl - late 70s UK pressing, pretty goodPicture Disc - couldn’t resist, couldn’t really listen to it either. Surface noise.CD - 1987 UK - ok but not much more CD - 2019 version - good but differentI... | |
| Do speakers choose your music preference Of all the speakers I have had, only one had the kind of bass performance that you could feel in your chest, the Tannoy R3s.When I used to attend pub gigs my entire body was usually hit by a threatening impact of sound - some of it distortion due ... | |
| Do speakers choose your music preference In my case it was evidently true that my speakers were, for many years, heavily influencing my musical tastes.How so?Well, you see for much of the 90s my speakers were the diminutive Rega Kytes. These tiny triangularly ported boxes excelled at tim... | |
| thumb drive for source? I’ve been using USB flash drives for years. The latest iteration is USB 3.0 but not all devices will support that.I can’t say whether they sound any better than CD but I also can’t imagine any reason why they wouldn't.Surely, without any moving pa... |