duckworp
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| CD sound quality: original pressings vs regular remaster vs MFSL, etc In terms of which version of a CD to buy, a general (but not always applicable) rule for playing through good HiFi equipment is that an original CD from the 1980s or early 1990s is preferable to any remaster. The exception is classical music and s... | |
| Center placed equipment stands I have a 9 foot high chimney breast between my speakers. And one speaker is closer to it than the other. Real world room problems. | |
| The science of opinion ... @swanlee597You pretty much cannot go on an audio forum these days without a vocal group yelling "snake oil" "ABX before you can share your opinions" about EVERY single thing in audio.It’s gotten to the point I think these people get offended if pe... | |
| Network Switches @mitch2 To make sure I am clear, should I run a single short Ethernet cable from my router to the switch and then connect the various TV devices, plus my Antipodes DX server, to the switch....is it that simple?Yes correct. It doesn’t matter if the... | |
| Network Switches I would like to know why I would need a switch as discussed here, where I would use it, and what it would do for me.@mitch2 Buy a cheap second hand Cisco 8 port switch from eBay and connect it via Ethernet to your router. Connect your streamer etc... | |
| Why discussions generate into personal affronts... Threads that decay into back and forth bantering with in-jokes or jokes which most people don’t get are also tiresome. Eg this one Ginger, Mary-Ann...? | |
| Remasters - are they better? What exactly is it? There are various reasons we (I work in the music industry, and have in the past been involved with remastering) remaster old recordings. There are also various reasons why some sound better than the original to some people, and some worse to some... | |
| Unintended Consequences? Digital Streaming The main problem with streaming services is that they will only have the latest version of the album released by the record label. This means the most recent remaster. Remastering almost always ends up with a more compressed, less dynamic, maste... | |
| Why does my old CD player sound so much better than my new streamer? It is the different DACs which is contributing most of the difference in sound you hear. I have a high end CD player with a digital USB input to allow a network bridge (streamer with no DAC) to run through the same DAC. Initially CD sounded be... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson @audiokinesis / Duke - good post. Thanks. | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson @profInteresting about the rear firing tweeter.I've owned speakers with rear firing tweeters and heard others. I tend to like the sound best with the rear firing tweeter turned off. When on, and the sound is being radiated off the back walls etc... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson were there any speakers in your audition aside from the Boenickes that have a rear-firing tweeter? No there weren’t. I suspect that the rear firing tweeter contributes to the amazing space and depth that seems a common characteristic of Boenicke s... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson What a great selection of speakers to audition. I find myself asking, why oh why didn’t the OP make an effort to address his self-proclaimed, in-room bass hump? Would’ve made life much easier. C’mon. Man up here!I experimented with bass traps with... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Would you mind letting us know what cables you are using and if you have any mains conditioning?I did a lot of cable testing. The two speaker cables that made a big positive difference were High Fidelity CT-1E and Townshend Fractal F1 cable. I st... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Thank you for elevating the level of "average sophistication and written-word intelligence" on this Board, granted that such is not hard to achieve. Fantastic read. Second to Prof, you describe the hard-to-describe very well and that was a fantast... |