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| The real truth about recordings Each reproduction has a filter, we may like our choice of filters but I suppose it’s like hamburgers. Lots of range of enjoyment but there are still all hamburgers. Thus there’s no real thing to reproduce, just a version. Yet there’s something bra... | |
| Has anyone abandoned stereo for atmos for music? @plain_fan yes. Many technologies have come and gone. Almost all classical and all pop and bits and pieces of other back catalog have been re constructed in atmos. And I’m saying this is what most people think hi-fi should sound like! I am amazed... | |
| Has anyone abandoned stereo for atmos for music? @ghdprentice it plays two channel, just decodes to the way your speakers are setup. I have a spectacular two channel system, and just saying this is a different beast because it frees up the mix for the master not to have to play the games to get ... | |
| Has anyone abandoned stereo for atmos for music? @abnerjack thanks! Odd that the minutae that is discussed here with gusto that this isn’t a hot topic. My experience is this technology isn’t for movies which may be why we ignore it. It’s the freedom to reproduce the music as the artist intended... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! Confirmation bias. Of course. I was at a dealer and he was switching between 2 DAC’s. I was amazed how he was so superlative about the difference. To my ears one sounded different from the other, but both sounded terrible. A bad setup? Going to AX... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Some great products mentioned here, but speakers aren’t magic devices that work the same regardless of setup and room. I’d start with subs. That helps pressurize the room if setup properly. And that setup is very tricky. More elaborate subs may he... | |
| Does the streamer effect sound quality I’ve had the blue sound, the Lumin, the Cambridge, the overall advice is that it’s hard to logically separate what these devices do. If it’s only to transport bits into a DAC, or to provide a processed signal, and does it attenuate volume? One of ... | |
| BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard? Little known is tricky, but I thought through my list of recordings that define jazz to me, perhaps one you may not have heard? You can skip the last one :-) Armstrong - Hot 5 and 7 Blanton Webster band- Ellington Love Supreme - Coltrane Ahmad... | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? Most music, not all, is about frequency range. The hardest part is bass. Our ears are pretty attuned at locality and direction, even of very low tones far away. Our rooms are tricky to get bass to sound right. Personally it took years of fiddling,... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Reminds me of a story. My wife was rummaging around and found a bottle of wine. Opened it and I suppose enjoyed it. I noticed it on the counter and let her know this was a grand reserve 20 year old Rioja. 50 bucks a bottle. After that she just wen... | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! This is a puzzling post, can some clever engineering matter in a digital transport device? One area you can be pretty confident is the digital domain. Rarely could anyone say the expense or engineering of a streamer matters in video. Which seems h... | |
| Have you upgraded from a Freya? Something broke on my Freya so while it was in the shop for repair I tried the maker of my amps preamp. The electrocompianet 4.7. A stunning change and while it’s expensive for a volume knob since I only have one source it’s the anchor of my syste... | |
| List some of your favorite live Jazz recordings Ahmad’s Blues - Ahmad Jamal’s unbelievable performance and trio captured at the Pershing in Chicago with the clinking of cocktail glasses ushering in the sound that changed Miles Davis and all of jazz. In the expanded editions it featured his reco... | |
| Bridged amps vs stereo vs monoblocks. Thanks @jasonbourne71 so if I understand I just don’t bridge to avoid stressing the power. That’s interesting a as to what stressing does. Shorten the life of the components? Isn’ta power supply just a coil of wire? Uses more energy? @mulveling i... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? Agree on classical. However, if you actually attend a concert, it’s not really that loud. Depends on the piece, but blasting some crescendos isn’t going to tell you much. I’d go for organ. It’s actually the first hi-fi rig. It’s listening to how i... |