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| Inna gadda da Vida long version eBay should have it. | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? An audiophile is someone who has found out the hard way that going from Redbook CD to 20 bit CD to 24 bit CD and going to higher sampling rates to SACD and even Blu Ray and hi res downloads doesn’t necessarily guarantee you will actually realize a... | |
| Buddy Holly and Elvis on SACD jafant wrote,"OP-it is a shame that The Beatles is not avail on SACD. The fab 4 really missed out on that one..."Not to worry. They would probably over compress the SACDs just like they do most recent CDs and even some SACDs. | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt Bdp24 wrote,"Right you are Geoff. Is 180 degrees off close ;-) ? To state it again, what is needed under a turntable (or CD player, or tube electronics) is not a piece of wood (or whatever) with which to "tune" the entire LP player (what a "primit... | |
| Recommendations for IC and speaker cable I really like Anti Cables, too, if for no other reason than they are the Poster Child for wire directionality. You know, since they are unshielded AND have direction arrows. I also respect that they're cryogenically treated but then again what isn't? | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt bdp241,363 posts06-25-2016 6:29am"The anti-high mass proponents will tell you that those designs don't "block vibrations", they just move them to a different frequency (lower) and transmit them longer---in other words, ring longer at a lower frequ... | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC mapman13,416 posts06-24-2016 3:46pm"Its also too short to be counting peoples posts. I'm trying to cut back by not arguing with you Geoffkait. That should buy me a few years....."right. Starting right now.:-) | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC mapman13,415 posts06-24-2016 2:24pm" Life is too short to argue over audio."to which Mapman replied,"I agree.Even worse is arguing over wires not to mention fuses."That's odd. I counted 18 Mapman posts on the latest thread on fuse directionalit... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? dracule1 OP966 posts06-23-2016 8:17pmGeoffkait:"You apparently don’t seem to know that going to audio stores is no way to audition cables or anything else for that matter. For one thing they keep changing their equipment so much the system never g... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? dracule1 OP966 posts06-23-2016 8:49pmGeoffkAit: "Nobody pays retail. Not in this market. Strawman alert. Example: a dealer pays what, 50-60% of retail. And sells them for whatever he can get, let's say 80-90% of retail. So, no one is paying retail... | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt Ole school wrote,"At some point isn’t the vibration going to travel onto the cantilever or arm just through the air?"excellent question. The acoustic waves traveling through the air don’t matter because speakers, even with big subwoofers usually c... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Hey, Bob, did you happen to see the men's final at the French Open? Both Murray and Djokovich were using Head Graphene racquets. What are the odds? Gotta be at least 2 to 1. Cheers | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? mapman13,405 posts06-23-2016 1:04pm"Obviously how much anything is worth is a matter of opinion and opinions will vary."The only opinion that matters is the person’s who is selling the thing."Resale prices over the long run are most likely the onl... | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt oleschool OP93 posts06-23-2016 11:48amI will check it out . I am not having any problems with vibration that i can discern .. I am still using my stock classic feet and my wood is on spikes then wall mounted obviously sound travels everwhere but i... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? dracule1 OP963 posts06-23-2016 1:58amGeoffkait: "I never said you did say there’s NO difference between cables. What you keep saying, though, is that there is NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in sound quality between very expensive cables and inexpensive... |