deep_333

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The end of physical media is neigh
Maybe i should start selling off my BlueRay collection now before you cann't buy a player for them anymore.  @glennewdick , The Sony Playstation 5 is a good blu-ray player. All the gamer dudes would need to go full digital before the gaming con... 
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Masterpiece Pantera - Cemetery Gates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZf8ZYHV7o            
Help me pick a new desktop speaker
For your price range, i would go with a Yamaha HS8 active monitor for around ~700-ish (no amp needed). Set it on stands on either side of your desktop. It is not some sterile sounding monitor, but a very musical speaker. You could put it on somet... 
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@stuartk Many metal bands are not unidimensional...For example, Opeth (swedish progressive metal) is quite heavy by all standards within the metal genre, though there’s a lot of melody sprinkled in all over.. even with some of their heaviest trac... 
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Iron Maiden - Trooper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZbjrDwQ28   Essentially reads me to me as a anti-war message, based around true life events from the 1854 Crimean war.....an anti-war message which is much needed in the current world of w... 
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Not necessarily true, here's an example of Diamond Dave being just a funny guy....   Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EI8JN-fSLo       P.S. If you walk like this (adopt this gait pattern), your confidence... 
2-way design vs. 3-way design means ?
And then there was the Bose 901. No way.     
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@simonmoon  I can see what you're saying... Here's a breakdown of "the drapery falls" by a classical guy (that you may appreciate). Personally, i myself am a violin player...who went plugged in for a few years because a couple of my buddies bac... 
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Is Deep Purple considered heavy metal? If so Lazy’ on Machine Head is my nominee. Agreeing with the poster above that Deep Purple might have given the genre a kick start. @baconboy I would classify deep purple as mostly hard rock... I think it... 
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I listen to more Heavy Metal music these days than when I was younger, when the music was newly released. For example, Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell is in heavy rotation, especially with my RAAL CA-1a phone and the VM-1a tube headphone amp. My ... 
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  Track#3 Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkQYt3u2ac (RIP Paul Di'Anno, 17 May 1958 – 21 October 2024)  
Discerning a difference between streamers is difficult...only me or common for all?
To pass blind A/B comparisons reliably between streamers, dacs, cables, etc, i.e., the subtler devices in the chain, you will need to address the room resolution bottleneck. The room's always in the way.... Here are some examples...such designs (... 
Tinnitus
Alcohol is one of the worst offenders...not to mention detrimental effects on sleep and everything else it damages. Drinking is dumb, especially for older lads.  
Downsizing from tower to bookshelf
Bookshelf speaker on stand has the same footprint as your floorstander. So, you didn't really downsize anything. It was always just a lil psychological thang. Hope that helps.  
Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done?
You can address peaks but not EQ your way out of modal nulls. ("Positional EQ" maybe, i.e., move seat and buttocks out of null)