gbmcleod
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| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy @jasonbourne71 The "reference standard" in High End is the same as it has always been: its resemblance to live music as heard in the concert hall. UNAMPLIFIED. It’s not as though that hasn’t always been the standard for, say, TAS. Can’t speak to S... | |
| How old is too old? Ah, and your question was, I realize, about the equipment, not us, but it was fun answering anyway. I have DCS gear which will be approaching 2 decades in a few years. It plays fantastically well. No complaints. And I have an Arcam FMJ CD23 as we... | |
| How old is too old? @nonoise Whatever disadvantage my age gives me, it also gives me an advantage: having had to take music courses and classes in school back in the ’60s, so I actually know what the instruments of the orchestra sound like, something the younger se... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype @audiotroy Thanks for pointing out what so many people seem not know. A dac is a design. And only the designer can decide how the final product sounds. What’s so funny is that most High End components are designed by ear. The measurements count, ... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? "How do YOU like it? Is it what you were hoping for?" | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Critical listening is what reviewers do when a component is being evaluated. It involves knowing specific reference recordings, but it also requires some familiarity with acoustic instruments (for reviewers). A reviewer has to know how close to th... | |
| Nordost Valhalla 2 Speaker Cable You'll be very happy with your Valhallas. I had Valhalla many years ago, and it's a great cable. It's top card is transparency, and it has that in spades. I have Tyr 2 now, and have for years now, and it's a fantastic cable as well. I am guess... | |
| What does your DAC sound like My dacs are DCS: Paganini and Elgar, as well as my Arcam FMJ CD23 Ring CD player, which is the reason I even bought DCS. After 25 years of having a Ring converter (the Arcam), and having tried and lived with many others, I decided I had to stick ... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) The 80s had the worst bass, especially Electra Records), the voices are doubled (or smeared) and the lead vocalist sounds like a real, live human being. I meant to say, "the vocalist never sounds like a real, live, human being." | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? Yes, of course they do. | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? Yes, it is! I suppose digital instruments reproduce some things correctly, but when they’re trying to reproduce the sound of an acoustic instruments. Well, they do a good job. Just not the whole enchilada By that, I mean "as well as analogue." W... | |
| To Fritz, Quicksilver, and all the exceptional makers trying to get the word out Quicksilvers are GREAT amps. I remember them from the 1980s and ’90s. It really IS a shame people don’t know who Quicksilver Audio is, since their products are stellar! | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? The first consideration must be : What is the SOURCE of the bass ? Bass is not generic --- it is specific. Is the source instrument bowed, plucked, blown or struck to produce the bass in question ? The "leading edge" of the sound predicates... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @dogberry Analog guys dump on digital on WBF all the time. It happens , but your point is spot on regardless No, we don't 'dump' on digital. It's just that many of us read, write and play music and have for many decades, so we say that vinyl m... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @newton_john Thank you. That is a very elegant explanation for the differences people hear (if they do!) between music released on vinyl and digital. |