gbmcleod
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| Caveat about the Cable Company return policy I'm sorry to read of so many negative experiences. Mine have been uniformly positive, including my returning a cable today that was weeks overdue. They were very understanding about the circumstances (a death) and never sent an email or text reque... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy "Understanding music is a child’s play." Please explain what you mean, if you don’t. mind. And,maybe it’s a fantasy to you, but I don’t see any reason you can’t go to a symphony hall, and listen to music. There must be at least 200 in the United ... | |
| 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... |