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| Your favorite 'concept' album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society. The young Ray was already deeply nostalgic, as were many of his mid/late 60s contemporaries. Blame the drugs.I should also mention Windy by Astrud Gilberto. It's more of a (summery) mood album ... | |
| Best Speaker for classical music @atmasphere ,’Again, what makes a speaker good for one genre makes it good for another.’If only all loudspeakers were created equal.Then we could buy the delicate Cerwin Vega CL -15 for those Ashkenazy piano concertos and the bombproof Harbeth SLH... | |
| In praise of the ESL-57 @atmasphere ,Yes, I was one of those not overly impressed with the results in my setup.Loudspeaker impedance and amplifier matching seems to be important with the ESL57s.Apparently the 35wpc Naim 32.5/110 that I was using was not ideal. Far from i... | |
| Best Speaker for classical music Classical music is a far more demanding genre - from my point of view.My desire that a system can reproduce accurate timbre ( not washed out as is all too common) far outweighs its other qualities, such as imaging, or collosal dynamics etc.This po... | |
| Listening room setup + library @millercarbon,’Most of the noise will come in through the door. (And a surprising amount will come in through the window, even when closed.) But mostly the door. Ideally you would replace the normal hollow core indoor door with a solid core outer ... | |
| Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? The answer unfortunately is no. By the late1950s the main loudspeaker technologies had all been invented.Sealed box, open baffles, horns and even transmission lines were all in existence by then.Dynamic drivers, dual concentrics, paper/ polypropyl... | |
| The "other" singers you enjoy.........? Fred Astaire was so talented, it's almost difficult to believe he existed. | |
| Listening room setup + library This could be a very interesting thread.I don’t think 14 x 11 is particularly small but it is very sensible to gather as much advice beforehand.I tend to prefer a live sound and would be wary of overdoing the absorption. Alan Shaw of Harbeth once ... | |
| why a 75 dollar blue ray smokes all 2k CD players and any turntable??? Before we all get carried away with just how good a $2k or $3k DAC might be, it might be worth asking what happens to all of this superiority when the lights are turned off and it's compared to a $5 one?If you fancy a fancy DAC then you should buy... | |
| When to replace old drivers? Yes, don't let audio paranoia get to you. Leave them alone and enjoy.I doubt whether you could ever hear it's effect but if it makes you feel better you could remove the driver and VERY carefully iron out the crease as best as you can. If you have... | |
| Floored by Beatles "White Album" Reissue Giles did have access to the original tapes, but his intentions were never to release THE definitive digital versions of Pepper, the White album and Abbey Road.The intention was to capitalise on the 50th anniversary and shift some more product. Th... | |
| Still confused about clipping after reading all the articles. @macbrett,'These spikes only happen during clipping. The sharper the corner, the higher the spike.'This has been a most instructive post. Thankfully I've never had issues with clipping, at least none that I was aware of or that left permanent dama... | |
| Oldest Recordings that sound “audiophile” @larryi ,'I had an opportunity to hear a master tape for a Nat King Cole recording and it was unbelievably vibrant, and realistic sounding.'That's just the kind of thing that many audiophile dreams are made of.Short of being in the control room du... | |
| why a 75 dollar blue ray smokes all 2k CD players and any turntable??? @pjr801,'Junk In = Junk Out.Its nearly always the case of diminishing returns the further up the audio chain we go.'Yes, but wasn't that the old 1980s Linn mantra that they nicked from the computer industry (gigo)?With the advent of digital, disto... | |
| Still confused about clipping after reading all the articles. @rodman99999 ,Good article. I was still a bit puzzled why clipping particularly tends to blow out tweeters.'Since a clipped signal contains a high number of high frequency harmonics, tweeters are especially at risk for damage. These high frequency... |