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| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Beatles--Meet the, et alByrds--Mister Tamborine ManNeil Young--Sleeps with AngelsKinks--Muswell HillbilliesWarren Zevon--Excitable BoyYes--Close to the EdgeJethro Tull--Stand UpGrateful Dead--American BeautyVentures--VenturesLeo Kottke--Peculiaros... | |
| Easily the best and most significant sonic tweak one could ever make! I went to the Village Vanguard once, and my table-mate had cochlear implants. Had lost hearing as an infant. He told me he had learned to hear language through Books-on-Tape...and it had taken him awhile to realize he was on auto-repeat. Said he... | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 I went from a Benchmark DAC2 to the Terminator. Running it from a new HP laptop over Curious USB and added the USBe-Perfect coming out of laptop. Seemed to take three weeks to settle in, but I'm very content now going all-streaming. Quite invol... | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? If "A" reveals 8 out of 10 words of a lyric and "B" reveals 10 out of 10 words of a lyric, then an A/B test will let you hear all 10 words on A and B. There is an assumption that the human ear/mind system is a skilled comparator of sound, but it w... | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? The accapella section Heart Like a Wheel sung by McGarrigle Sisters. | |
| High end stereo preamps? Worth it? I don't think you need a preamp in a digital/streaming system. You just need an attenuuator to "pre-attenuate" the signal. If you want the best attenuation, the Benchmark LA4 is about as clean and transparent as it gets.That said, if you try sev... | |
| Best 40 to 50k used speakers I'd buy the best used Estelon speaker I could afford, even if I had to wait for newer models to becomes available used. There's something deeply satisfying in their presentation of music. | |
| Best room treatment My best room treatment was to place the speakers on the long wall. Bass traps and abortion panels had zero WAF unless It was in the basement. | |
| Analog or Digital and why? Digital because streaming changes the equation--the access to virtually all recorded music outweighs the obsession of optimizing your private, itty-bitty percentage of the whole.. And streaming/DAC's have evolved to phenomenal performance. | |
| My pet peeve: "revealing" speakers Perhaps fluorescent conveys the feeling, Erik. Some systems are like a room lit by fluorescent tubes. You can really spot things, but it isn't natural or nourishing--it's why you don't light a church sanctuary with fluorescent lights.I have a Ch... | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial I had the same reaction--system got better and S&G got worse. The same is true for some Who albums. I was expecting access to the natural voices of S&G but they were processed and the instrumentation seemed disconnected from the vocal tr... | |
| Looking for new speakers Perhaps the Thiels are amp-sensitive. I home-demoed the Thiel 3.5's with a 200 WPC Perreaux Mosfet amp and preamp. Mosfets are generally mellow, but the combo was ear-bleedingly bright. I think the 3.6 was smoother, but once bitten... | |
| Tekton speakers with Ribbon / AMT ?? I've always been fascinated with the Heil AMT and Janszen electrostats, but my current Sonist Concerto 4's have fairly large Fountek ribbons (Neo X 3.0?) crossed over at 8000 Hz, inside wave guides, and it's the best treble I've ever had. No ear ... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) High end is pretty directional, and bright tweeters are usually beaming straight from tweeter to ear, so room mitigation is limited.From experience, when a company features a special tweeter, there seems to be a tendency to showcase it a little to... | |
| Any thoughts on Denafrips Terminator Plus I went from Benchmark DAC2 to Terminator. I still have the Benchmark so I'll put it back in to see if any useful observations emerge.In my system, it took about a month to acclimate to the Terminator. At some point in that process it seemed to ex... |