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| Why does the amplifier left speaker go right and the right go left? Bdp24 for the win! | |
| Is Recording quality the real culprit? When I was a young person over half a century ago I thought that a bad recording was doomed to provide an unsatisfying listening experience too. Then I got a pair of Stax electrostatic headphones, SR-5s. One night, after enjoying Workingman’s De... | |
| What is your "holy grail song" that you cannot find? I have a bootleg of Little Feat Live Oct. 31, 1975 at the Orpheum Theater Boston on cassette, burned to CD, but it's nowhere near the original broadcast quality heard on the day/date on WBCN. My rommate recorded it on a Sony 10" RtR at 7.5 ips of... | |
| Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd. Cables do sound different...a little. But for HiFi stores' profit margin...a lot! This is the legacy of the Head Monster, super salesman Noel Lee. IME, compared to room acoustics and proper speaker placement, they matter little. High value bra... | |
| Do any McIntosh preamps have non digital filter for bass and treble? Any model with 5 or 8 rotary EQ controls, whether preamp or integrated amp has analog domain circuitry. That’s C51, C52, and the current C55. The digital part is a slide in module, only a DAC, and has no EQ function. edit: these are EQ controls,... | |
| MoFi or Harbeth (used) Given your room size, the Pointsource 10 will deliver more pressurization than that model Harbeth, whatever its other virtues. It comes down to your priorities. Based on my listening experience, the Pointsource 10 is balanced to be neutral, and f... | |
| Would McIntosh Auto Transformers affect speaker sound? I am 72 and tinnitus has ruined my critical listening capacity, but my first job in HiFi was at a McIntosh dealer. At age 21, my ears were fine, and although I thought I knew a thing or two about audio, I was really just beginning to learn. Our de... | |
| Need A High Compliance Cartridge You can buy an Ortofon OM5e Super for $79.99 and then purchase an OM40 Stylus for $340.00. That's a high compliance low mass cart with an aggressive line contact nude stylus. I sold one like this to a guy who had inherited an Infinty Black Widow ... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? As someone old enough to remember when Switchcraft was the upgrade, and who was present in the business when Noel Lee arrived, I want to remind everyone here that the principle reason there is a cable business is simply greed. I have collected man... | |
| Revel Salon 2 If you have a room in which they can thrive and are willing to set them up properly to deliver what they are capable of, then this is a screaming good deal you will be hard pressed to match, let alone beat. Highly accurate for real music truth. | |
| Keep light equipment from tipping up from cable weight? VPI magic brick is perfect for this! | |
| Sviatoslav Richter. Greatest pianist of the last century? I cast my vote for another Russian, Emil Gilels. His Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin performances are unequalled in my opinion. Many other composer’s too. I would also mention Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, and for Mozart, Mutsiko Uchida. | |
| Starting Over and I need your help Of all the ways to use a Node, Apple Music is among the worst. Airplay is convenient but not the top choice. Qobuz is fully integrated into BluOS. Then get a linestage integrated from a company like Van Alstine and give it a whirl. An outboard DAC... | |
| Tidal removing all MQA The HDTracks linkup with Lenbrook is not a done deal, and may never be. They need to develop a service model and pricing strategy that is competitive with the established names. The need for special playback circuitry will be an impediment. I own ... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. I still use early Rod Stewart and Van Morrison recordings to judge my system changes for this very reason…those records convey both a high quality of sonic representation, AND a joy of musical spontaneity that engages and excites me. “Cut Across ... |