ethiessen1
Responses from ethiessen1
| Why not? Even at the top of the high end, products are built to hit certain price points, with certain parts and pieces decisions made accordingly. The car tire analogy is an accurate one - good enough to last the buyer a fair amount of time but not the be... | |
| Why is Audiogon checking my browser? The inconsistency of this "security" check is frustrating. My XP computer gets "approved" sometimes and at others, like tonight, the verification bs runs for hours with no approval. Using my tablet goes through every time. Clearly the parameters ... | |
| Why is Audiogon checking my browser? Got this verification bullsh*t on both computers, running XP on one and WIN11 on the other. There's nothing here worth this hassle. Next time this happens I'm audioGONE from here... | |
| Badly recorded albums needing upgrading I've found that hi-resolution downloads eclipse many of the physical media, with a few exceptions: ECM recordings, some of the better classical labels. But even burning the hi-rez files to Redbook cd-r in foobar gives far better sound and more def... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. To keep it simple, Coltrane on Atlantic is easier on the ears than the later material on ABC/Dunhill/MCA. In music theory classes way back when, the tune Spiral off of Giant Steps was offered an an example of defining a physical shape/attribute wi... | |
| The Modern DAC killed High Resolution Music - has Stereophile proven it? Not a scientific response to your post but perhaps relevant - I own both the Redbook and SACD versions of Keith Jarrett's Sunbear concerts and the difference between them through the same DAC, system etc is easily apparent. Also, downsampling 24/9... | |
| Most annoying post period bdp245,892 posts10-19-2019 8:47pmAny and all by kenjit.+1 | |
| What was your first big eye opener with regard to audio? 1-Hearing Maggies at Audio Art and at a friend's house. To this day 40 years later I still get goosebumps listening to them in my own system.2-Working my way up each price point from entry level SR-60 to SR-325 Grado headphones. | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. Sony Elcaset? Far more obsolete than RtR!"The system was technically excellent, but a total failure in the marketplace..""No pre-recorded Elcaset tapes were produced and the machines were withdrawn from the market after only a few years.When Sony ... | |
| What a sad world we now live in....... My 30-40 year old adult children and step children all love listening to music. Two are pretty fair musicians. But their entire peer group doesn't own a decent piece of audio gear at all. They download individual songs and maybe most of an album o... | |
| "You cannot handle the truth" Any number of reasons - someone loses their job unexpectedly, or put together a system for a significant other who suddenly isn't significant anymore, piece of equipment doesn't play well in a system even though all reviews and preliminary auditio... | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? Once I retired at the end of 2011, giving me more time to actually play the full sized system instead of listening mostly through my Grados, I got restless and upgraded my cd player and speakers a year later to an Oppo 93 and a pair of Maggies. My... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. This many years after the cd was forced upon us, I have yet to hear a "normal" cd of solo piano that gave me as complete an aural image as many recordings have on vinyl, clicks and pops notwithstanding. That said, the SACD version of Keith Jarrett... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Two thoughts: if the difference in retail prices between Tokyo and the US is truly as stated, there's plenty of margin to offer, on a selected basis, a loaner or two to qualified potential buyers, most probably previous clients of the establishmen... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? A somewhat obvious thought (to me at least) is that the dealer should be willing to demo identical systems with and without Stillpoints to give prospective purchasers a chance to hear any differences without having to take them home first. I under... |