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| 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. | |
| help with absolute phase In case this is not clear, you want to reverse the plus and minus speaker cable leads at BOTH speakers OR for both channels of speaker cables at the amplifier. Red to black and black to red. Inverted phase is not the same as AC polarity, so this i... | |
| Any opinions on the Dodson 217MKiiD? Several existing threads about the Dodson. Might want to check them out. | |
| Dodson DA-217 MK2-D I think mine is pretty well broken in. Sadly, I must say that my early impressions of the Sony as a transport for the Dodson DAC are not all that good (the SACD is another story). The sound tilts toward the big. beefy, overripe side of things. It ... | |
| SACD, MSB/Upsampling, LPs Compared My earlier comment was in no way an attack on tommart, which I am sure he understood. I was questioning the comment in the review, and now he has shed some light on it. Chill out,jadem. | |
| SACD, MSB/Upsampling, LPs Compared Their comment that the CD layer on hybrid disks sounds better than CD ( I assume all through the 90000ED + MSB) sets off my BS detector. | |
| Best Pre-amp under 7k Try to listen to a Placette if you can. It's an entirely different direction from the tube preamps mentioned above, and while it may not be what you ultimately choose, I expect it will be a revelation. | |
| Best amp for Proac response 2.5 Try the Pass X-150 with your Proacs--an excellent match. | |
| Coping in an Age of Uncertainty Ears, Marklivia's point was that the SACD players do not play standard CDs as well as his Wadia. Was Widescreen Review saying that SACD playback betters the 860, or that redbook CD playbook on one of the Sonys betters the Wadia? I'm sure Marklivia... |