craigl59
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| What Matters and What is Nonsense Congrats, UBWHave had my pair for over a year and they please every time they speak. You will not be disappointed. What convinced me to purchase was the uniform positive response from ACTUAL owners on all threads. Trust the owners and their honest... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense +1 phomchickAnother downside...we all have that "purchase a new box" urge. Those that have gone the Lyngdorf way are both smug and lonely at the same time... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense +1 barrarichAgree completely with your emphasis on room control and the changes from the new computer reality. Have described several times on Audiogon my belief that soon there will be only one box and it will include a media server, open-ended p... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense For me and my systems, "tweaks" are improvements such as Herbie's Loudpeaker Feet. These were recommended on the Double Impact thread and I ordered them with trepidation because they were about $65 a speaker and the design improvement was not clea... | |
| SACD If you are asking whether your CD player should decode SACDs, then it probably should -- but most better CD players will.If you are asking whether it makes sense to concentrate on SACD playback or SACDs, then don't bother. It is largely a dead for... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense My preference is for a DAC/Pre and the new RME ADI-2 unit just released offers full preamp flexibilities in a single half-rack space. Also have an Emotiva XMC-1, which is brilliantly designed/based on a Linux computer, and use it for a 5-channel c... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense Al:Agree completely with your approach and, also, listen largely to dense orchestral feeds. Have been able to achieve your two conditions with (highly efficient) Tekton Double Impact speakers and A/AB Emotiva mono blocks. The combined price for bo... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense geoffkait:Overly compressed masterings have, truly, become the bane of audiophile's enjoyment. The new Old Crow Medicine Show album is a classic case of the CD sounding just like MP3 because all is compressed way too close to 0 DB. Cannot listen t... | |
| What Matters and What is Nonsense Excellent topic, phomchick.Agree with much of your analysis. Would give higher ratings to format because JRiver can significantly improve the SQ through upsampling a CD with SoX (am upsampling to 768khz, then direct by USB to a RME ADI-2 DAC and f... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( +1 GrannyringThe decline of acoustic pianos (esp. grands) offers a similar tale, one that developed more quickly than the decline in HEA. Eventually, there are just a few manufacturers left and those who are speak to a vanishing crowd from another... | |
| Looks like Tidal is doomed! Have been following the streaming services and their royalty payments for some time because it seems to me that most services (and especially Spotify) do not charge nearly enough in monthlies to provide reasonable compensation to artists.Naxos is ... | |
| Tekton Polycell15 Kenny:If it is efficiency, then the 20-30hz content is probably there but laying 6-12 db down. Probably can be brought back -- as they say in the studio world -- "responds well to EQ." | |
| Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens-which sounds best? You need to find out if the HD version is native or not. Given the age of the album, I assume it was recorded on tape. Normally, high-res digital transfers are remasters done off of the original source. If that is the case, than a 192/24 transfer ... | |
| Tekton Polycell15 Curious:Low frequency extends only to 30 hz whereas the DIs, with twin 10 inch drivers, go down to 20hz. Wonder why there isn't greater range with the 15" drivers; could it be the cabinet size? | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? ejr1953:In a related vein, have compared a number of (same recording) CDs with SACDs and found that the latter are normally louder and more compressed. Have often wondered if Sony did this as a standard mastering technique in order to prove the su... |