douglas_schroeder
Responses from douglas_schroeder
| Has Radicalizing the Rig Led to Revolutionized Listening? Vocals, too have changed for me, and now I tend toward less harsh, more nuanced songs. One of my great joyous discoveries in recent days has been the series of Voices Only and Voices Forte series of recordings of a cappella groups. I sang in choir... | |
| Has Radicalizing the Rig Led to Revolutionized Listening? It's such a rewarding experience to have a fulfilling listening session every time one sits down before the system. I couldn't relax and simply let the music wash over me when it had major faults as I interpreted them. But, with the elevation of t... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? The Quads were novel cutting edge, in their day. Old Quads now are horribly compromised, utterly incapable of handling today's music, as are most HiFi speakers. When you hear the "hash" of it, you know the system is not that good, and/or was po... | |
| Sam here.l realize now why so many people think my ideas are crazy? I'm playing Trombone Shorty at the moment. | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? What is amazing to me is how elevated the speaker's performance is compared to years ago. I continue to be impressed by how "flexible" a speaker's sound can be based on the ancillary components and cables. The truth is that is takes dozens of rigs... | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? Currently in the rig I have three consistent elements:1. SOURCE: WireWorld Silver Starlight Ethernet CableSmall Green Computer sonicTransporter with SONORE systemOptiqueand associated optical cableSONORE Signature Rendu SE Clarity Cable Supernatur... | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? You’re shopping, and it seems you are shooting in the dark. (Which is fine, if that is what you really want to do.)The general question of what constitutes synergy in an audio system is unproductive. You will get a set of answers that is completel... | |
| Same Wiring of Speakers and Speaker Cables I conducted a special review for Dagogo.com in which the Legacy Audio Whisper DSW was upgraded internally with Clarity Cables wiring and Clarity Caps (no relationship between companies). Highly efficacious, and Bill Dudleston measured a 2 dB impro... | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? Speaker genre selection? | |
| What Combinations of Components Have You Put Together That Sound Good? Do you want the $5K Synergy System, the $20K Synergy System, or the $75K Synergy System? :) | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Solidly lower end HiFi advice. :) | |
| To warm up or not to warm up, and...? Anyone who uses AC in their home is destroying their sound. ;) | |
| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? Look at engine/automotive/mechanical definitions and the phrase "break in" or "run in" is used of the initial use. For the audiophile in the home this is a distinction without meaning. The problem is not terminology, it is the expectation of signi... | |
| Is Break-In essential and potentially dangerous for the Audiophile? Once again, for the community’s benefit:"Audiophile Law: Thou Shalt Not Overemphasize Burn In" at Dagogo.com The hubris, and time wasting of audiophiles never ends, including threads such as this.CH Precision has precisely zero advantage over any ... | |
| I think some cables are just a little too expensive. Expensive cables are no more a waste than expensive analogue. If you don't think so, prove it. Go ahead, use the data, the objective criteria you say is missing with cables. Show me. Go get the graphs that demonstrate the better plinth, motor, arm... |