hickamore
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| What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles Maybe I missed something here. Have we some reason to suspect that audiophiles' tastes in food are markedly different from those of the "ask your smart speaker to play X" crowd? I personally am only a "B" level audiophile, but an "A" level gastron... | |
| ARC Select Worth Price? Upscale website gives this further detail: We deal with some fairly picky customers that want to make sure that their expensive ARC preamps, phono stages, and amps are as close to perfection as possible. For that customer we have 6H30’s in a grad... | |
| ARC Select Worth Price? Upscale sounds like a safe bet for my immediate needs. Thanks to all for the detail and reassurance. | |
| ARC Select Worth Price? @mulveling @ghdprentice Thank you! Exactly what I wanted to know before proceeding. I listen about 12-16 hours/day when not traveling, although only 2-3 of those hours are "serious" listening. The remainder is radio, sometimes analog and sometimes... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? @mylogic I hope you are not under the mistaken impression that I dislike Neil Young. I love NY and always have! Southern Man and Ohio are at the top of all social conscience rock. They can inhabit my head for days, all these years later. Lyrics ar... | |
| Music streaming Qobuz for sound quality, but sometimes they don't carry an artist's best work. For example, Tom Russell Band, Poor Man's Dream album. All you get are shabby, feel-good live recordings of some cuts from that record. They also don't have the Poco al... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? @stuartk Sorry, I didn't notice that you wanted to extend the topic. Let's view it through this lens: for "singer-songwriter-self-accompanists," the baseline is necessarily below the Mark Knopfler level -- let's say the Jim Croce level. Croce's pl... | |
| Best Audiophile Album in terms of Dynamic Range and Mastering Quality? @hilde45 +1 and thanks. I am presently creating a Qobuz "Audiophile" playlist leading off with Blue Coast recordings. We'll see whether my incoming preamp extracts more from this material than the outgoing. | |
| ??? Listening Levels & Musical Styles ??? The "Gemini" summary is spot-on. But I thought everyone here knew all that. The chief variable is not your ears or your mood or the ambient noise level. The chief variable is what's on the record. | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? Probably because of scar tissue on both eardrums, but even with hearing aids I need peaks at 85db to absorb all I'm capable of hearing. That's an improvement just in the past year, attributable to to an amp upgrade, 85 has now become the new 95. | |
| Best Audiophile Album in terms of Dynamic Range and Mastering Quality? OP list consists of reliable audiophile familiars that everyone has used for decades: Dark Side, Graham Parsons, etc.. Personally I incline to After The Gold Rush over Harvest, and to FM's 1975 eponymous LP over Rumours -- two glorious, colossal h... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? @stuartk Let's just say that if Taylor can play, I have never heard him do it, nor heard him credibly accused of having done it. | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? James Taylor, who if not favored by family connections, an ingratiating personality, and lucky timing (a cultural moment of stunning vapidity -- "I'm OK, You're OK;" "Johnathan Livingston Seagull;" "Love Story" -- "Fire and Rain" was of a piece) w... | |
| What's up with the weird time stamp in these forums? Replies to the OP are now being displayed in REVERSE chronological order, which means you must scroll to the bottom and move upward to read the discussion in its real-time sequence. Bizarre, inexplicable. | |
| Two preamps into one amp? To take it seriously: what happens to the amp if both inputs are driven simultaneously (by different signals from separate preamps)? Might there be a protection circuit? What if there's not? The front panel input selector seems an invitation to ri... |