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| Musical Fidelity's USB Ready V DAC Glad to hear that Musical Fidelity products have't lost their ability to polarize the audience!Does anyone know who their head of marketing was during the most glowing reviews in Stereophile? | |
| Improving on Classic Amps mrtennis thank you will take a look at the CJ stuff...Bbro, yes that makes a lot of sense....in fact the factory recently told me that they use both Bryston amps and crossovers for testing and evaluation.Combined with the fact that many Magneplana... | |
| Celebrity Audiophiles? Do you guys know of any? If Anthony Cordesman is a "celebrity" than Hugh Laurie is a global mega superstar.Celebrities probably enjoy audio at the same rate as the general population, say, less than 0.01%. Like the general population, a high percentage probably prefers to... | |
| Improving on Classic Amps Thanks Guidocorona for clarification - from Wikipedia"The letter D used to designate this amplifier class is simply the next letter after C, and does not stand for digital. Class D and Class E amplifiers are sometimes mistakenly described as "digi... | |
| Improving on Classic Amps GuidocoronaHmmm....thank you and interesting points, but not so sure about these digital amps... Why so many for sale and at such discounts?JayboThank you - on reflection, I guess I don't want to end up on the which component do you you most regre... | |
| Spectron Mk II, is it really that good. Good question.I too have been tempted to further explore or try the Spectron amps.Although I can't quite put my finger on it, something has always told me that there has been way too much hype - a familiar sensation which has been a bit like the g... | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? Interesting to read about Vocoders, frequency response and other excuses for phones that sound worse than a tin can on a string in a parking gargage underwater.This still does not explain why performance is so much worse in the US and in particula... | |
| amp for maggies 3.6 Perhaps the imedance characteristics are also challenging, but Magnepans are planar speakers, not electrostatics.Mrsilver123For a bargain basement solution, I had success driving Apogee ribbons and Martin Logan electrostatics using an Aragon 4004 ... | |
| Who was your first Ir was my first experiences with good audio circa 1980 that got me out of listening to only pop and rock music, and I too enjoyed Spyro Gyra, Weather Report, John Klemmer and Herbie Hancock.About 20 years later, I took some jazz piano lessons some... | |
| "The Answer"- 4 guys from Belfast. GawdblessThat was a very compassionate retraction during the holiday season.But would it be safe to assume that you don't listen to a lot of rap music and/or havent seen MTV in the last 20 years or so?Because if you had, you might think The Answer... | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? MagfanYes, I generally now prefer email to speaking on telephones.But sometimes of course you need to make a call, and I am starting to get a little farsighted.Zieman, yes I get upset with home service too, and couldn't believe it when the early a... | |
| "The Answer"- 4 guys from Belfast. HERE IT IS!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66MikIqgt0Some will say "derivative" of Led Zeppelin (?), but hearing anything like this these days is a welcome and refreshing change. | |
| You've Won the Lottery: Your Dream System, Now. Thank you everyone for your very interesting replies so far.Schipo, remember: for the purposes of this exercise all music is FREE.The question I have posed seeks to eliminate the natural audiophile tendencies to chop, change, trade, tweak and upgr... | |
| "The Answer"- 4 guys from Belfast. Dont know if you can find it on youtube, but I was MESMERIZED by these guys playing "Never Too Late" on the David Letterman show.Yes - great old school style rock and roll band. The first thing that has really grabbed my attention in a long time.... | |
| wadia ipod dock-- anyone find faults? Cerrot, thank you - at last, some aspects of this debate are starting to come into focus.Some time ago when I was trying to be a pioneer with USB into USB compatible DACs, some pro audio guy looked at my like I was asking for 78 RPM records, sayin... |