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| Pleasurably better, not measurably better @holmz "And it does not matter what every member of the audience is hearing..." If you’re a member of the audience, it certainly does! It matters to oneself. Ultimately, it does not matter what every measurement is telling me, if it doesn’t sou... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better @holmz "To say that the ears are all different would be like saying that the feel of a block of ice or a hot stove is different because all people “feel” differently." No... we have glasses or custom lasik to correct for differences in vision, so... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better @holmz but if one is listening to music, ears are NEVER removed from the equation. Hence the real real-world artificiality is when one depends solely on laboratory measurements that have cut the ears off. | |
| Technics sr u 1000 ... vs Accuphase e-480 @johnsonwu Interesting! A new Accuphase could be had in this manner too... and yes, that SU-R1000 as well which I hadn't even thought of. I've never been to Japan, so it might make for a nice trip... But, isn't the voltage different for Japan... | |
| Pleasurably better, not measurably better Everybody's ears are different... So, if something measures "flat," that's not necessarily how my ear hears it; so, for my pleasure factor, I may prefer speakers that rise in the high frequencies to somewhat offset my ears' drop in highs, as a sim... | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts You know, some of the nasty, snippy, sniping on this thread has made me tired. It's actually embarrassing. Rude, snooty, snobbiness is exactly what can give audiophiles a bad name. It's what I ran into in ASR, and now I'm seeing it here, too. I... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising." Along w "Tunnel of Love," an excellent overlooked album. For reference, my other three favorites by him are "Wild, Innocent, E Street Shuffle," and "Born to Run," and "Nebraska." That makes a minimum of fiv... | |
| Hard of hearing @galleybob Widex ... not Windex 😊 | |
| Hard of hearing @galleybob Widex Moment... I'm not sure if they have variants. I have the Phonak Audeo Paradise, top level (there are three tiers) and even got the waterproof version. They are customizable, firmware updatable, and adjustable as hearing profil... | |
| Considering Towers in the $3000 range Q Acoustics Concept 50 perhaps? It's right at $3000. | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts @prof But who is "shoving their method down people’s throats?" Unfortunately, though I agree with much of what you are saying on this thread, I have to report that people jumped all over me on ASR when I reported that I like the Klipsch Heresy IV... | |
| Can someone help me pick out my first speakers? @10229 +1 Elac Debut 6.2 | |
| Q Acoustics Concept 50 Andrew Robinson called it his "desert island speaker"... He used the Concept 300 standmount as his reference "bookshelf" speaker for two years, apparently, but says the 50 is better and probably better than the 500 even, for half the cost. Ken I... | |
| Is there such a thing as a FOREVER DAC/streamer? Well... "forever" is a long time, but if it's awesome now it'll be awesome for a while... I think many of us can attest to still running on the internal dacs of cd players from ten or even twenty years ago; I know I do, and everybody including me ... | |
| Roger Waters Live Last Night in Glendale,AZ +1 @tomcy6 "It always puzzles me why people like Roger always live in the countries they despise and are happy to take the money of the people of those countries. You’d think they wouldn’t want to dirty their hands with that filthy lucre. People... |