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| How would you rate your listening room? Good thread. I'd probably give mine a B/C. No bass boominess whatsoever, but no bass either. 14' x 22' by variable height ceilings, rising from 8' at the walls and shooting up to the moon in the middle. But it's a beautiful living room and I love ... | |
| Coping in an Age of Uncertainty They sort of invented it, so you can imagine what their position is. But they are very smart folks and all of the writings are worthwhile. Check out one of their product manuals online--awesome! You can switch upsampling on and off with the MSB Pl... | |
| Classics and Cults. Bogus Journalism? Oops. The John Iverson (not Jon) amp was called Electro-Research, the A-75 I believe. | |
| Classics and Cults. Bogus Journalism? Anyone remember the Paragon preamp circa 1978? Or the Electron-Kinetic amplifier by Jon Iverson of about the same time? But BEL is definitely alive and kicking. | |
| Wanted leads on blues, blues rock folk Sounds to me like you enjoy singer-songwriters. Try Joe Henry "Shuffletown," Chris Smither "Live as I'll Ever Be," Kelly Joe Phelps "Lead Me On" or "Shine Eyed Mister Zen," John Hiatt "Crossing Muddy Water" (bluesy, but not up to the level of his ... | |
| Blind Listening Tests? Very well said, Charlie. | |
| Blind Listening Tests? Is it insecurity to need a blind test or is it insecurity to reject or fear such a test? | |
| RCA vs XLR Many variables here. If the component is not "truly" balanced, the XLR capabilities are sometimes realized in a compromised fashion (I am told), which could yield inferior sound. In my system, balanced between some components is louder. When overa... | |
| Blind Listening Tests? Great post, Don. I expecially agree with your thread that results of blind tests can be "another piece of information that we could factor in to our purchasing decisions." Dan | |
| help with absolute phase Onhwy61's post was excellent. My recommendation that you make the change was no more than regurgitating audiophile best practices. But truth to tell, I don't hear a meaningful difference myself. I have known some who are highly sensitive to it, ho... | |
| SACD, MSB/Upsampling, LPs Compared Interesting, I guess there is something to this after all. And if you ask me, "professional reviewer" don't mean squat. Most of those guys are bozos just like the rest of us, or worse. :-) | |
| Burn In = Voodoo? In the late 70s, before I had ever heard a thing about burn in, I had the following experinece. I got a new solid state amp to try out, a DB Systems DB-6 it was. It sounded okay to me out of the box,but not remarkable in any respect. We had some f... | |
| Most overpriced audio component made Also, many of us have found that the power cord, which is the last few feet in the chain you describe, vegasears, can make a huge difference despite the seeming adsurdity of it. | |
| Good MA recordings CDs I find some of the music on the MA label wonderful and some of it annoying. And I am not familiar with Sera Una Noche, so I do not have a feel for what you might like, but I can confidently recommend Calamus, The Splendour of Al-Andalus, which is ... | |
| Most overpriced audio component made Point of clarification: margin and markup are two different things. A product that yields a 50% margin (from sales price) has a 100% markup (from cost). 20% margin is 25% markup, 33% margin is 50% markup, etc. |