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| New Pink Floyd release Never did get The Floyd. | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? I loved Stereophile while John Atkinson was editor. You may criticise him for some mild equivocation but Jim Austin gets down my throat: dogmatism is worse. I am considering packing it in but the entry price is so low I still see value even thou... | |
| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper I really wouldn't obsess about this. | |
| Whats the ultimate goal with your pre amp ? @arcticdeth 'The Preamp' eh? Some of us with remember The Preamp from the early 1980s, a very small lightweight unit with a lit-up red company logo that was Musical Fidelity's very first product. I wonder if Roger knows about it. I bought one... | |
| David Crosby R.I.P. Glorious high tenor; in the rock world right up there with Roy Orbison. Creator of beautiful harmonies for the Byrds and for CSN as well as his own work. If I Could Only Remember My Name was Crosby's masterpiece and a masterpiece of the era. He... | |
| Looking for a good small subwoofer... Pleased to see three supports for KC62. I have been looking at these a while. Any more opinions please? | |
| The problem with absorption panels- it kills the fine details It's true, a room can be over-damped. None of us would like to listen in an anechoic chamber. But think on this. A performance properly recorded for stereo presentation will contain all the artifacts of that performance in that room. We should... | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... You don't HAVE to read the garbage these people put out. Measurements don't work on cables. Period. Many say they don't work on anything else either. So if you believe a particular cable might give a better sound FOR YOU, then you will have to ... | |
| Buyer anxiety @blue-magoo I'm not intending to create anxiety. But everybody needs to know the internet and the web are dangerous places. At time progresses more and more care needs to be taken. The scammers are far cleverer and more committed than those ... | |
| Buyer anxiety Yipes. That's Thailand. Some of the biggest international scams originate there. Some years ago there was a huge forged wine fraud that lost buyers more than $8 million. Wine speciallsts in auction houses were taken in. It is also known that a... | |
| Buyer anxiety Well done escaping their evil net. Phone number out of the country. Would be interesting to know which counry code these scums come from. It really is time they are wiped off the face of the earth. No punishment is too hard for them. | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? @rmdmoore Pleased to hear you didn't despair over your suspended wooden floor and put the speakers on stone blocks. Assuming there may be a weight issue, try using a thinner but larger stone block, like a large paving stone. Spike the speaker ... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? As others have said above. IT DEPENDS There are many many factors that determine which recordings are best. Not least personal taste. Silly question. | |
| Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options? @avanti1960 @audphile1 Spikes!!! Quite right! I entirely agree. Key points. First order objective. Prevent the speakers vibrating to the music. Second order objective. Prevent the speaker chassis from vibrating in response to the mov... | |
| Baffled and Frustrated: Streaming/DAC Sound Issues @cleeds Wikepedia: A Fourier transform (FT) is a mathematical transform that decomposes functions into frequency components, which are represented by the output of the transform as a function of frequency. Most commonly functions of time or s... |