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| Qobuz or Tidal? @arthur1260 -- Not that I know anything, but I'd bet the honchos at Tidal, Qobuz and the other streaming companies have slightly different tastes as to what sounds good. Putting it another way, I bet they do futz with the files. It could also be ... | |
| Does the Audio Industry Have a Quality Problem? I got my Mytek's Optical setting to work again. It turned out to be a simple matter of flipping a switch on the back of my Sony CD/SACD player. How did the little red switch get switched? My wife? One of the cats? Me in a momentary bout of insanit... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. I loved Springsteen and the E Street Band. Sincerity. Energy. The singularity of mood and purpose they could invoke. Comedy. Drama. The concerts were long, to be sure, but the numbers never degenerated into endless, self-indulgent jamming...some... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. Thanks guys for bringing up the Byrds. I started listening to rock-and-roll radio stations because of the Beatles (before that I pretty much only listened to Classical), but it was the Byrds that I truly fell for. The soaring harmonies. The chimin... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. I never warmed to The Band, this despite (or perhaps because) I must have heard the Big Pink LP thousands (okay, maybe only hundreds) of times at buddies' houses through the years. I went to a special pre-release screening of the movie, as well. T... | |
| Is your heart filled with a love of music, or something else? Yeah, as mean as this place sometimes gets, I still find it enjoyable as heck. The zeal of those who indulge in this hobby gives the joint infectious energy. We really love the stuff. More importantly, we love what the stuff does -- magically ma... | |
| A question about what "streaming" is When I stream via my Mytek Brooklyn Bridge streamer/dac/preamp, the sound quality is clearly superior to what I get directly via my Windows laptop. Heck, at least 50% of the time, streaming sounds better than what I get from vinyl...at least when ... | |
| Best best ballads that refer to a US State Goodbye, Old Missoula. | |
| TONE bdp24 -- While digging through my now dusty stash of recording/live performance equipment, I realize the microphones I used for the majority of my live recordings are an MXL V67 Q stereo mike and the microphones that are attached to my Zoom H4n Ha... | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? Douglas_schroeder and tomcy6 state the issue surpassingly well. | |
| Upscale Audio and Primaluna I have no idea when I bought my Primaluna Prologue One from Upscale, but I'm pretty sure Kevin was a one man shop working out of his house. As I remember it, his wife was not happy at having nerdy guys show up and having to listen to stereo being ... | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? I've become inured to the criticism that seems to inevitably come from being an audiophile. What can I say? I just love sitting in the sweet spot, reveling in wonderful imaging & tone, hearing musicians coming alive for my ears, sparking my em... | |
| Does the Audio Industry Have a Quality Problem? Oh yeah. My Primaluna integrated stopped running. At the time I lived within driving distance of Upscale Audio. Kevin Deal's techie fixed it there and then. A resister(?) evidently went bad. | |
| Does the Audio Industry Have a Quality Problem? I've had my share of troubles with audio equipment over the years. I've blown tweeters on both my Celestion SL600's and on my Kef Corellis (twice!). And this without ever playing my stereo over 90db. When the Quicksilver Mono Amps came out, they... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rok2id -- Yeah. And how 'bout that, too! William Kappel on YouTube. The flipside of the record is even better. A blazing, take-no-prisoners run-through of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto #3. My dad gave me the record as a way to perhaps make me practic... |