grislybutter
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| what cd player ? @innersound300 The Rotel 1570, 1572 both very solid. | |
| what cd player ? Rotel, used | |
| Made in USA besides where it's made, there is where it's designed, where it's owned, where it pays taxes/avoids to pay taxes, where patents are owned, where the parts are made, where the source of the parts are mined, etc. Being from a country that has sunk ... | |
| Sound quality of new vinyl recordings. as i did a little research, new pressings are very rarely purely analog. And then what would be the point, you could just get it much cheaper in a digital source | |
| Sound quality of new vinyl recordings. @ghdprentice and I know close to 0 about streaming. We are probably the two opposite examples - system-wise, your system is as good as it gets (I know you keep improving it) and I don't just have poor albums but very basic components as well, tha... | |
| Sound quality of new vinyl recordings. to me, digital would win, based on "average" sound quality. It varies a lot less than vinyl. I don’t have money for expensive albums, so half of my collection is pretty poor quality. But about 10% of my LPs is way better than any CD, as it has bee... | |
| Chat GPT wrote a poem about digital vs analog sounds pretty 4 grader homework level to me, cute but devoid of any substance or joy | |
| Candidates for best speakers in the $2000-5000 market @richardmathes that's good to hear. I did read that the Heritage was amazing. I was never too impressed with the Special Fourty. Dynaudio speakers are so musical, my next speakers would be the Contours. | |
| martin logan dynamo 700w subwoofer trouble shooting @m-db I emailed them last night and they responded before I woke up, Pretty amazing service from Martin Logan! Unfortunately the board is busted, and it costs over $220 | |
| Sound quality of new vinyl recordings. I received a lot of insight to my question, should be relevant for you: | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? @orenstein Sounds lovely! If only... I am physically at the furthest possible location in the mainland US, San Diego. | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? @orenstein I can come over and take and post your pictures for you :) | |
| Quobuz subscription I had a lot of qobuz troubles both with the quality and the subscription, not going back | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? "Point is, why do we judge people for the amount of money they spend on their hobby?" I judge people when they are jerks. Not when they disclose how much money they spent on X. Here is my "favorite" quote: "But I didn’t buy a boat" meaning the ... | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? @bigtwin there is something unpleasant to sickening the way people write about their several times 100K systems in this thread. Like they have to show off, compensate for something, rushing to making the point that they are super rich. And it ge... |