douglas_schroeder
Responses from douglas_schroeder
| Burn In... the Age Old Question, Cables, Components, and Speakers Once again, for the benefit of the community: Audiophile Law: Thou Shalt Not Overemphasize Burn In" at Dagogo.com | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Most hobbyists will not be in the class of systems to enable all genres and recordings to sound wonderful. No judgment of anyone's efforts, just experience with gear from budget to close to SOTA. | |
| Analog or Digital and why? Chintziphiles desperately want any sort of analogue to be better than all digital. | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? jnorris2005, perhaps you can temper your declarative attitude. Others prefer different genres of music; get used to it. The high end certainly doesn't revolve around your taste. Further, you seem to have profound ignorance of premium audio systems... | |
| Tidal vs ATC smodtactical, thank you for keeping the shopping radar running for me; I think that was your intent. However, $50K is still way out of my budget for speakers. | |
| Analog or Digital and why? This is a provocative post because it is so full of generalizations. No, vinyl didn't die, but digital has made amazing strides. it's digital for me. My reasons:1. I love the gear and the passion of assembling systems - I am a System Builder, a fa... | |
| Has Radicalizing the Rig Led to Revolutionized Listening? Superb! We are friends! :) | |
| To warm up or not to warm up, and...? Let's try this again: Live in Alaska and keep the windows open! ;) | |
| Has Radicalizing the Rig Led to Revolutionized Listening? needlebrush, I think you misunderstood my response. I did not take your post as any particular assault upon myself, and I was not attempting to put you in your place, or anything of the sort in my response. I was simply discussing an aspect of my ... | |
| To warm up or not to warm up, and...? For those who don't understand, the winking smiley face means it's a joke, not serious. | |
| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? It will be observed that those are typically tubed components, and I am not saying that tubed electronics cannot change sound in warm up. However, it would be interesting to do my testing with more tube gear. If I recall correctly, one of the comp... | |
| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? I am not saying that "differences" are not happening. I am saying they are subjective, not actual, as demonstrated by my testing. It takes an overconfident person to not accept that possibility. I was such an overconfident person on this and ot... | |
| Has Radicalizing the Rig Led to Revolutionized Listening? Needlebrush, I tend to attack hobbies for advancement. Learned to ski downhill at 27 and was doing black diamond moguls in 3 seasons. My instructor, a Dutch, ultra-smooth skiing friend, upon request took me to increasingly difficult slopes. One da... | |
| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? audition_audio, did you bother to read the article? I believe I explain that the phenomenon is perceptual over time as one acclimates to the system. | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? For reviews of products I always start sans subs, then after adequate experience with the product, I roll in the subs. |