edcyn
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| The myth of "best" in audio needs to be addressed by all of us Yeah, but "best" stimulates/animates the conversation. The proverbial click bait. Let the ego rage! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @ rok2id -- Your got me searching my record shelves. Yes, I've got that Heifetz Brahms Violin Concerto on a half-speed master "Red Seal .5 Series" LP. | |
| What are your preferred profiles for integrated amplifiers What's 2u and 3u? | |
| WHICH SONG FOR A GOOD CAUSE CAN YOU MENTION? Changes, by David Bowie | |
| stereo review magazine I was with my dad at the local stereo store when he bought his 901's. Yeah, imaging wasn't exactly precise in the living room where he set them up, but man they could blast the dB's. Me and my high school girlfriend had many a deafening makeout s... | |
| Possible cause of harsh mids? What millercarbon sez...Spitty sibilants and scratchy violin sections have been my audio bete noir for decades. | |
| stereo review magazine MillCarb -- I still have prince perscriptions to both Stereopile & Absoluto Soundo and I just love 'em. True, I was immensely offended when they went from a Readers Digest mini-mag format to full-on glossies, but I can't throw them out. Too en... | |
| stereo review magazine My dad had a subscription back when it was HiFi Stereo Review. If he had a subscription to a prehistoric "HiFi Review," I don't remember seeing one. By the time I was about 11, I was reading them voraciously. Rex Reed wrote for the rag and his rec... | |
| Who Else Has a Collection of 78 RPM Records? I have a few 78's left over from my father's collection and my early childhood. I haven't, though, had a turntable that could play them in decades. Honestly, I have no genuine urge to play them or even clean them. I'm just not that much of an ent... | |
| Minimum Broadband Speed Necessary For Uninterrupted Qobuz and/or Tidal Listening? @vinyl_rulesI have a similar problem with Qobuz. It also happens, though less so, with my Primephonic subscription. I can stream CD quality just fine but when I switch to hi-def, a good 80% of the time it either simply won't load up or it'll stop ... | |
| Stream laptop to system I connect my laptop to my Mytek Brooklyn Bridge streamer/DAC via an Office Depot USB cable. It gives me perfectly serviceable sound quality from YouTubes, mp3's I've downloaded over the centuries, and fiddle recordings I make of myself on my now-a... | |
| Is louder better? If you're looking to find a natural volume level, go to a party. Wait until there's no music blasting on the stereo. Listen to people speak. Listen to shouts and laughter. Listen to little kids yelling. Listen as folks play acoustic instruments. | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? The wife has three Colnagos. Two carbon, one aluminum. All Campy. Loves them to distraction. I've had two. An aluminum Dream in Mapei colors, and a steel Master Extra Light. I loved that Mapei dearly but I got rid of it in a fit of downsizing my l... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? @ecolnago -- I gotta ask. Are you honoring Ernesto (who I had the opportunity of meeting once)? Or are you committing an unpardonable sin by contemplating/constructing an electric 'Nag? | |
| Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound? At its core, language is an objective discipline. It enables concrete things to happen. Do this! Do that! Do it this way! Sure, language can also can be subjective. After all, what else are poetry and turns-of phrases? But that's not its basic... |