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| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? More than any other single group, The Beatles expanded the range of what rock and roll could be more than any other group before or since. To deny their achievement by demoting it to some lesser form because of that achievement is perverse. The Be... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @gumbedamit Without Googling, Queens? I know Louis Armstrong lived there. | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? "New HiFi Sound" is being mildly disappointed in the gear you've just bought and hoping it's going to blossom once it's broken in. | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? I think of a couple of releases that seem to me be creatures of the CD era: The Centennial edition of The Complete Robert Johnson brought out sounds I don't think anyone ever knew were there. Though I don't know that it's any great shakes sonica... | |
| Something other than Harbeth SHL5 By-the-by, I have just begun breaking in a pair of Super HL5 XDs. As I don't live in the sort of place where you can't play your stereo loud all day, it will some three months or so until I have a final verdict. As I said, I have literally just ta... | |
| Something other than Harbeth SHL5 Seems to me getting an upgraded Harbeth wouldn't fulfill the desire for something new. How about this: Find speakers that people are raving about that have significant return windows. Keep the Harbeths during the process. If you find the greener g... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? Whether or not you value imaging is purely subjective. If imaging is important to you, you pursue it, and it's there to be pursued if you value it. You shouldn't be swayed by some notion that you're not a true audiophile if you don't care about im... | |
| "High end" store snobbery One thing about this that comes to mind is that if they're the only audio dealer in town you don't have to worry about competition. They have less reason to treat people well if they don't want to. One reason they might be loath to take trade ins ... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? The issue may be that the LP is being sold as a premium product that is worth a high price. If the market has softened I would think the manufacturers have a lot of room to cut the price, pocketing their profits from the flush times and picking up... | |
| What CDs to buy Two phenomenal illustrations of what digital mastering can do to pull sound out of 78 records you'd never imagine possible are Robert Johnson: The Centennial Collection and the American Epic collection engineered by Nicolas Bergh. If I'm not mista... | |
| Vinyl - One Word - WOW!! I generally prefer CD and mainly buy vinyl when it's the only format where I can find something, but a good vinyl recording can indeed be stunning. I think the main reason to make vinyl your primary source is a distaste for the digital sound. The ... | |
| The difference between an Audiophile and a Stereophile? Stereophile is a registered trademark. Audiophile is is the word people actually use for what was once called a hi-fi nut. | |
| Welcome to Hell, here's your 8-Track 8-track was superseded by a superior format and the audio industry's attitude about it was "let us never speak of it again." I actually owned a PlayTape cassette machine at one time, and boy did that format get dropped down the Memory Hole quick. | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I think the issue is that some people have an aversion to the digital sound. If you do not care for the digital sound analog is both objectively and subjectively better. There is no question that on good equipment a good analog recording sounds ve... | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- It would be desirable to have a comparison with the previous iteration of each piece of equipment reviewed, but that would mean you'd have to own the earlier iteration of every piece of equipment you review. I think any reviewer who does have acce... |