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| Beatles best album and concert dvd? It's difficult to say what is the best Beatles album because they're all different. From 63 to 69 the band went through amazing changes (and hairstyles). Each album reflected this with increasing sophistication and studio time.It's a very long and... | |
| Articles You Feel Should be Shared Loudspeaker Isolation.Here's an interesting article from IsoAcoustics inc looking at that thorny question of spikes versus lossy decoupling.Despite reading like an advertisement for their own products they claim to have scientific data from resear... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @mikewerner,"If a system is high resolution, then it is low distortion. This is NOT true.This helps explain much of the seemingly contradictory statements made in this thread."I think we could say that good system building can be a tricky business... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @dutchtreat,"Visited a friend recently, who has a grand piano in her music room. Listened for about an hour, noticed what makes it sound real. Timbre at all frequencies, all notes. Percussiveness. Sustain, damping pedal effects, different sound pl... | |
| Pink Floyd and Weed @grm,"If I were to look at obtaining a new set of phones, I would be looking for something over the ear, but I think I might try a new amp first. What do you think?"To my mind closed back over-ear phones are superior in every way.Apart from sound ... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @prof,So if it’s the case that audio gear isn’t necessarily too good for the product, but that careful and due consideration MUST be applied before any major upgrade to avoid disappointment then some kind of personal strategy might be advisable. W... | |
| Are the loudness wars fake so record companies can destroy the music? My problem with loudness is not just that the quiet passages are boosted, it's that the peaks are compressed. When it's overdone the music feels like it's been subdued with the life and dynamics missing - supermarket/elevator music style.This effe... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @prof,'It sounds, though, like you are mostly satisfied with your Tannoys?'I'd say so. The Berkeley's can play almost anything without making me reach for the remote on purely sonic grounds alone. Previous speaker more or less forced me to search ... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @jjss49,"the issue or challenge for us who have our very high end gear is that much of that music is really not made to sound best played on our systems - we are simply not their target audiencemass market vs niche..."Unfortunately music productio... | |
| Nostalgia, fond memories and judgement on now vs. then equipment ? If, as some have said, that transistor amplifier design stoped progressing since the 1970s, then it's pretty pointless to suppose that today's amplifiers might be better. Why would they be?There's also absolutely no need to suggest that our memori... | |
| Are the loudness wars fake so record companies can destroy the music? @rickytickytwo,Yes, and all the nice delusions we like to to entertain in our heads can’t change that brutal fact. Nor can what most people tell us or would like us to believe.Honesty amongst the successful rich and famous is virtually unknown. An... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @lonemountain,’You are now hearing what was done to make it sound good on $10 earbuds and FM radio. They have to boost the bass, boost the treble, compress the crap out of it so its louder than other songs, all which sounds positively awful at hig... | |
| Member Almarg passed away last night Yes Al was a class act.We didn't share many exchanges online but the ones we did were all good.It was touching that we shared some musical tastes too such as some of those lush 1960s recordings as well as the love of audio. | |
| Anyone Using Harbeths with Grilles off? I'd also try to go with what the designer recommends. The Harbeth grilles were factored into every stage of the design process. He even went to all the trouble of making them difficult to remove!So unless there is some HF hearing loss...In any cas... | |
| Articles You Feel Should be Shared Parlogram AuctionsHere's an unusually informative YouTube channel I stumbled upon. This one is based mainly around the Beatles on vinyl and goes into considerable detail. I always wondered why the original albums sounded different to some of the r... |