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| A pragmatic view of cartridge expenses / many questions Back in 2003 at a show in London (Heathrow/Novotel) me and some friends got to hear a very expensive turntable set up which featured a £5k cartridge. I can't recall the names, perhaps my friends could, but it did feature a huge, somewhat ridiculou... | |
| Why so many Hegel's for sale? @jjss49,’so much data trying to explain stuff, yet real events and changes occur largely due to psychology driving individual perceptions, and thus behaviors’Yes, the psychology of consumer (or investor) behaviour is the unpredictable element liab... | |
| It is not you, the sound really is getting worse @twoleftears,Yes, Nolan seems to be the current master of undecipherable dialogue.Going by this article it seems to be a deliberate policy on his part. Only box office receipts count, I guess.------Hard to pardon: why Tenet’s muffled dialogue is a... | |
| Why so many Hegel's for sale? Economics is a mind bendingly difficult subject to peer into. It’s defeated all but the very best of analytical minds such as Smith, Malthus, Marshall and Keynes.Given the psychology of the audiophile mind, audio economics might be beyond even the... | |
| It is not you, the sound really is getting worse Just the other day a friend reminded me how I laughed at him for using earplugs at the cinema when we went to see Gladiator back in 2000.Of course I later realised that he was right. Six years after that article I see, or should I say hear, no imp... | |
| Are the loudness wars fake so record companies can destroy the music? @uberwaltz,'Over compressed music is just about a requirement for any music to sound acceptable to the masses on the near universal phone and earbuds setup.Us audiophools comprise a tiny segment of the customer base and we are not the ones who are... | |
| Turntable placement and isolation @indranilsen,I'm sorry but I can't post any pictures of it. I think it eventually got put in a shed somewhere by my wife after I sold off the turntable. I knew then kids and a turntable might not work out too well.I can still remember it quite wel... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming The CD v streaming sound quality debate is an interesting one. Without direct comparison I can't say I've noticed much difference myself.Furthermore, at the last show I attended (back in Sep 2019), virtually every exhibitor was using some form of ... | |
| Do Tonearms need servicing @best-groove,'at all, I find it all very funny.'It's part and parcel of being an audiophile. That's why I think some of the funniest posts are the ones we can see something of ourselves in.Anyway the balance of opinion, excepting a possible online... | |
| Turntable placement and isolation @wolf_garcia,"My Linn Basik/Akito instructions recommend a light but stiff shortish table which I happen to have. They're right, and it worked amazingly well (suspended wood floors). I switched to an "audiophile" table with room for LPs and an ext... | |
| Chris Isaak - Baja Sessions CD. Sounds better than it should. @n80,'@cd318, in terms of DR my ears are pretty happy at anything above 12. If you sort the DR database from highest DR you can find lots of CDs in the 16+ range. Some of the artists and titles with high DR are surprising.'Yes it's a question of l... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming When my CD packs in I think I'm going with streamyng. So many advantages for and none against.The only difference would be that I'd prefer a device with inbuilt solid state storage rather than rely upon my PC. It should have a decent album art dis... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @rvpiano,’Maybe, just maybe, Magnepans, Quads and the like for all their high reputation, are not well balanced, but tweaked to achieve a certain end.’I suspect this could be the case. On the right material they are said to be almost peerless. If ... | |
| Chris Isaak - Baja Sessions CD. Sounds better than it should. @n80,No it's not the only measure of sq, not all music calls for a huge dynamic range. Besides recording, production and mastering all matter too.However, don't you think it's an appalling state of affairs when vinyl releases regularly trounce the... | |
| Do Tonearms need servicing @pindac,’Much of my information that is shared on this topic is a extension of a explanation that was supplied to myself as my options at the time I was investigating my Upgrade Options on a owned SME IV.’That’s how most of us without first hand e... |