erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Monitor Audio's top end. Anything from Fritz. | |
| If I plug my phone into an external DAC, does it bypass the internal DAC in the phone? Not if you use the headphone jack.Otherwise, via Bluetooth or USB, yes. E | |
| Personal vs. Market Values Most “truffle oil” is crap. Made from inferior species, left over remnants, or from a perfumeries laboratory. Might one care not to spend money on fresh truffles, they might get better results with more modestly ( compared to high quality fresh... | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation The long term use of hypercompression in the mastering studio has finally killed pop music. Not only does it suck out all the dynamic range out of the music, in so doing it scrubs all emotional content as well. Hahaha, there is no bottom in te... | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible How about acoustic panels behind the speakers? Experiment first with blankets/ pillows to see if they make a diff.Check out GIK Acoustics, they make beautiful "art panels" | |
| Personal vs. Market Values Erik - Do you see what you're started here? If you keep this up you might turn this into TrufflegoN(TM)... Then my work here is done. | |
| Personal vs. Market Values Yes, there probably are supertasters in audiophile land, but what good are we? :)I mean, if we could discern between 20 different amplifiers, are you enjoying music more, or did you just train some set of neurons to discriminate without an end goal? | |
| Personal vs. Market Values I cannot tell the difference between things that have truffle oil and don’t. Obviously, if a recipe calls for oil for browning, that’s something different. But cook it with extra virgin olive oil or truffle oil and I could not tell. At best I migh... | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation Very true about target audience, but I’m making the point that the mainstream music biz is in a sad state. Yep. I mean, this "it all sounds the same" is probably true for pop music in any genre. For R&R it probably started with the "wall of s... | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation Their re-releases now being sold as "remastered," meaning the recordings have been improved. Some are more compressed, and more EQ'd, some are less. Really depends on who is doing the remastering and who they perceive as their target audience. T... | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation I have read this article a few times, and the author is not wrong, but it applies to a very small percentage of music that is created every year around the world. If you think all music sounds the same you really need to change the station. Best,E | |
| recommendation for speaker wire to soften the highs if possible Room acoustics and speaker placement are the first places to go looking. If the speakers sound great 2' away, but harsh by the time you are sitting down, this is why. Bare floors, and reflections between and behind the speakers can also make this ... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? Pizzas...why don't they work as spare tires? Please do the polite thing and start your own thread ... ;) | |
| Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today Wait. Seriously, wait 72 hours. Best,E | |
| Accuphase Vs Parasound isn’t the DAC on the P6 the same as the one on the parasound integrated? According to the president, no. In an e-mail to me he wrote that the P6 DAC was there for convenience, but he was quite proud of the DAC in the integrated. I haven’t looked a... |