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| Does Digital Try Too Hard? edcynMaybe it’s just because my ears are getting old, but to me digital glare is essentially gone. I currently get just as much glare (and other nasties) on vinyl. In other words, as far as I can see/hear, all the glare is already there at the sou... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance Sorry to say but you’re a little bit behind the times. Don’t flip your gizzard.https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/music-interface-technologies-acc-268-articulation-control-... | |
| Does Digital Try Too Hard? Digital can’t get out of its own way. It might be difficult to set up an experiment but if it can be done a direct comparison of a very good vinyl system to a very good CD system should reveal a few things about digital. To whit, digital exhibits:... | |
| Who else here is frugal? mahgisterLike I said you are absolutely right on all counts... I have known already that electrical pollution and noise in the room and house were stupendous unbeknownst to most or underestimated by all...But even for me it is amazing how the lost... | |
| Cheap Speaker "Isolation" Solution for 300 lb. Speaker Oh, I dunno, why try to emulate a spring when you can just use an actual spring. Springs maintain their performance and are scalable. If your diamond dampers are really so great how come LIGO doesn’t use them for isolation? | |
| Speaker Stands Filled With Kitty Litter? TRUE??? I am pretty sure he meant to say he used kitty litter not that it was used kitty litter as that would make it clumpy and knarly. | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear ct0517@geoffkait eBay sales don’t get as much as people think. And eBay is a fair representation of the value of records in general. Also, a lot of records you see for hundreds of dollars on eBay are there because they have not (rpt not) sold.GK -... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance Give me a T. Give me an R. Give me an O... | |
| Has anyone seen this...? Unique hipness or unique hippy-ness? | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear eBay sales don’t get as much as people think. And eBay is a fair representation of the value of records in general. Also, a lot of records you see for hundreds of dollars on eBay are there because they have not (rpt not) sold. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music I don’t recall the name of the Pizza place or the Red Lion. But it was the seventies. What can I tell ya? I also lived a couple blocks down from the Biograph theater on Pennsylvania Ave. on Washington Circle, the one with the statue of some dude o... | |
| Cheap Speaker "Isolation" Solution for 300 lb. Speaker Ah, the old transfer of mechanical energy to heat routine. | |
| Who else here is frugal? I didn’t say my portable CD headphones system was the result of frugality. That’s the irony of my post. It was the result of avoidance of NOISE and DISTORTION. After all, you really only have three factors involved when you cut to the chase: the s... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music My roommate worked at Mr. Henry’s, no wait, he just drank at Mr. Henry’s. Roberta Flack sang there in the late 60s. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Back in the early 70s I lived right across Pennsylvania Ave. from Mr. Henry’s, in DC, where Roberta Flack used to play a couple years earlier. |