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| Did Redbook get it right? Thanks for the informative comments.ZD542: Yes, we probably dodged a bullet by lossy compression coming after Redbook.Jon2020: Your description mirrors my own experience. For me, I gasped when the individual instruments had air around them in a 3D... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Leo Kottke. I've liked every song he's played. | |
| Songs that Inspire or Move you Kate Wolf singing, "Give Yourself to Love," when she knew she was dying of leukemia. | |
| Rolling Stones Tour 2015 I've carried a fear of singing, "Let's Spend the Night Together," at the nursing home. Boomers had quite a run of power, and us-centric arrogance, but it's in eclipse, even as Mick's prance and sneer represents denial of its passing. "Do not go ge... | |
| Best computer for usb hi fi source To me, the Mac still has the edge in industrial design and pride of ownership. That said, I use a PC laptop with an i5 processor, 8 gig of memory, and configure JRiver to play the music files from memory.Really, for the task of delivering a digita... | |
| Does HiRez really sound better? What is the motivation to compress? I don't see any cost savings for the vendor.I bought a "value pack" of some Byrd's CDs, which was wretched, and wondered why the sound quality was "cheapened." | |
| The sound out of jplay 6 is astonishing Googled jPlay and then read the blogs debating its worth. If you hear it, then you hear it, but there is a claim made by jPlay that is an impressive sounding straw man that attacks a problem that does not exist. The argument is that Windows is not... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Drubin, I got off the mgr by going VAC integrated and decoupling the word, "new," from "better," or magic." Usually, "new" is "a little different," and rarely better. It's true that integrateds tend to defuse the "weakest link" obsession, and with... | |
| Need recommendations.. Solo acoustic guitar CDs Most anything by Tommy Emmanuel. Chet Atkins proclaimed him best guitar player. He's self taught... living out in nowhere in Australia, and started copying old surf guitar artists by ear. The Center Stage album has rave reviews on Amazon. | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state Charles: FWIW, I recall my encounters with ss in analytical terms--"the Class'e seemed more solid, but the McCormack seemed faster," but I recall my encounters with tubes warmly as cherished experiences, and I don't compare one tube experience to ... | |
| Why so many PS Audio DirectStreams for sale? Perhaps it's the Kardashian effect--being in the company of the newest celebrity device makes life magical, then fades...and right now digital is announcing a new winner faster than bingo night down at the Elks club. | |
| CD Transport advices Probably not the advice you want, but when my Wadia transport croaked I tried computer audio to DAC over USB, and would never buy another transport. To me, transports and physical CD's are yesterday's news and online/hi-res/ripping/downloads/strea... | |
| Describe ube sound vs solid state For me, the difference is arrived at by induction rather than deduction. I was never inclined towards tubes or particularly wanted them. But after listening to many different systems over many years I realized the ones that I loved listening to al... | |
| How Do You Feel about The Cable Game? Let's face it, if a base, generic cable worked perfectly, someone would make a $1000 version, numerous customers would buy it, and many of us would want to believe and dream of owning it...lust for it. It's part of 'phile's world. | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has John Lennon, because the arc of his full life was important to so many.Buddy Holly because of what he would have created. A true genius. |