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| What is Tight Bass? By the way OP, you mention electrostatic. Sorry, you won't get any bass below 50Hz from an electrostatic, even though they're great at all points above. Many start to roll off at 80-90Hz. | |
| What is Tight Bass? A dichotomy on amplifiers for good bass? 'Tight' if you like, but I prefer accurate, or true to the live event. Some suggest only tube amps supply bass that reproduces the live event well. Others that only solid state amps have the raw power re... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Before Julian Hersch who is/was no more than a pundit, there was Peter Walker who designed amplifiers, good ones, in the 1950s. He said 'an amplifier is a straight wire with gain', defining his belief that 'all well designed amplifiers sound the ... | |
| Replace inner sleeves on used records? I just keep the original sleeve. If it's paper that's fine. If it's cardboard, I clean the record and put a Nagaoka sleeve inside. There are few of these; they were popular on 1970s rock. When I clean a record I put it inside a Nagaoka sleeve,... | |
| The problem with streaming @rudy b If you want to miss out that's your business. The artifacts you mention are easily solvable or have their digital equivalents that affect SQ far more adversely. Let's analyse. countless electrical, mechanical steps GENERALISATION. ... | |
| The problem with streaming @vuch I just couldn't agree more. Back in the day and the start of vinyl LPs in the 1950s and their heyday perhaps in the 60s, at least for us boomer rockers, the recordists, producers and engineers all cared deeply about sound quality. Decca ... | |
| Speaker Sound No wonder you're getting poor sound with cheap jumpers. Paper clips indeed! You need to get the new Super Jumpers by Reptile Grease. $1,100. Each. You get what you pay for. You'll love 'em. | |
| Isolation Feet for Laptop @guakus You keep saying you're going to try it. OK go and try it and stop bothering us. Do it, don't talk about it. When you've finished try putting springs under the laptop. I have to say this as Miller's gone now. Or hanging it from wire... | |
| Is there a solid fuse-like item that I can use in place of a fuse, to bypass it? INCREDIBLY STUPID BY OP. The fuse is there to protect your equipment, your home, your family and you from being burnt to death if the equipment fails or there is a surge on the line. Not the first time this idiotic proposal has turned up here. ... | |
| If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs Is PALPABLE the most misleading word in audio? It's certainly the most over-used. Of course the best double blind test is where the palpables are asked to choose between the same material and system played twice. Those who can do it, prove t... | |
| If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs @noske Do you mean 'so intense that it's inaudible'? Well, it's your $34.99 if you have money to burn. I explained in my previous post that replacing 1-2 bits in a million will be inaudible. | |
| Transport Question @lak4 Correction please! "I know many individuals with a trained ear and quality equipment WHO THINK they can hear the difference." A 50c computer disc transport has a read error rate of 1-2 bits per million. You ain't gonna hear that. Spend... | |
| If you want the utmost clarity from your CDs Re reading error, even crude 50c computer drives have read errors around only 1-2 bits per million. You ain't going to hear them. Read errors are not the issue with digital SQ. Problems centre around jitter, clock errors, DAC clock integration ... | |
| Is Old Music Killing New Music? Hi @infection It's really for the OP to define; it was his term. I would define it by release date, not style. I could say post 2009 - giving it 10+ years. Or more narrowly, what's being released now. I sometimes look into review recommendat... | |
| Why are ???????? Rubbish thread, |