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| Stereophile Scamming Subscribers? Jeez. If you like Stereophile $33 is not much to pay for 12 issues posted though your door. What the hell are you all looking for? | |
| What now? Re the piano. It may not be 5 foot by 7 foot. It could be an upright, 5.5 foot by 1,8 foot. Yes the strings will vibrate to the tune of the sound waves from the hi-fi. But pianos have a pedal that can damp all the strings by lowering felt pads... | |
| Songs of debauchery and excess What about Lou Reed? Heroin The Velvets. 'I wanna nullify my life' Doesn't that beat em all? Or I'm waiting for my man. Or Berlin | |
| Has anyone been able to define well or measure differences between vinyl and digital? Some have stated here that digital sounds 'lifeless'. The reason for this is obvious and immutable. It arises because the analogue signal has been chopped up into billions of pieces. It is chopped up in two dimensions: frequency and time. Once... | |
| OpenAI GPT3 chatbot's opinion on vinyl playback I doubt it, but the bot may be smarter than you think. It may be answering the question: why do some people say vinyl sounds better than CDs. | |
| Vintage worth the time to explore? Consider moving to headphones. The best modern examples provide awesome sound. I bought electrostatic Stax back in 1995 for late night listening in a flat and they remain superb. @deadhead1000 Rubbish that nothing over 10 years old is good. ... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll @earthbound +260,000 Why? Well said !!! The single most relevant, important post ever on this forum. You have no children! Nor do I. At population replacement rate, those with children will have brought 131,000 more people into the w... | |
| What am I missing? @sandthemall Thanks. I'm right there with you. I prefer physical media too. And ownership in preference to renting, sharing etc. Many suggest that the availability of 1,000,000s of recordings is advantageous because you get to hear a lot of d... | |
| What am I missing? @sandthemall "Why own a single property when you can subscribe to many more." Because here in Europe time-share was the most widespread property scam ever, that's why. Did you suffer the same scams in the US? | |
| Phono Cartridge Purchase from Asia? You say 'Asia'. Where in Asia?? Quite a bit of Asia is OK, has honest people and a decent rule of law. But China is the wild west. Don't go there. Beware saying Hong Kong is OK. It used to be. Sadly tt's part of China now and is being infil... | |
| What am I missing? @whart Agree with all you say. But "At the same time, we are still enjoying a hi-fi renaissance in our little corner of the universe- more vinyl, turntables, tonearms, cartridges, etc. than ever." No. Not more than ever. in the 50s 60s 70s ... | |
| How Did Your First Audiophile Experience Impact Your Audio Journey? When Blonde on Blonde was released I was 17. I bought it on the day. In mono, because I was using my father's rig that featured a Collaro turntable with downforce applied to a turnover mono pickup with an enormous stylus and what must have been ... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll @decathlon1991 Thanks. I knew my uprated KRS200s are big. But I had no idea they are planetary paragons. Thanks for this. What we need now is a designer that can take pure Class A down to a quarter ohm. Guess he'll be put in jail if he can ... | |
| Cartridge setup experts: Azimuth critique 100% @tablejockey Play it on a record. Do you like the sound? If so, best not to over-obsess. Trade your microscope for some nice LPs and try to stop worrying. | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero My comment was not a dismissal of cheaper systems, nor a pretence that there are not many who cannot afford costly systems. It was a correction of a descriptive. |