hickamore
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| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. Some errors that we blame on writers and editors may actually be the fault of "spellcheck" software. "Spellcheck" programs recognize only around 1,500 words, none of them naturalized from languages other than English, and demand that any word havi... | |
| What ever happened to Mark Levenson? Obscure petty criminals named Mark LevEnson aside, there is only one Mark Levinson in audio, and Daniel Hertz SA, based in Neuchatel, is his latest enterprise. (He is also working to upgrade mass-marketer LG's audio. Seems an odd project for him, ... | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! facten, bdp24, appreciate the info. Sounds do-able after all. | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! Does Townshend have a USA dealer for the seismic isolation bars? Everything I see is UK. | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. Let's also not forget that Love's "Forever Changes" was released in November 1967. More than one critic has named it their top "desert island" record, and for good reason. All of the above-named artists heard it. Maybe a one-off, what with the or... | |
| Drivers and how to clean them: Notes from ScanSpeak Do drivers become dirty when grilles are left on? Mine are difficult to remove/replace, and some take offense when guts are exposed. Same ones who think cookware should be hidden away as though one had an invisible chef or only dined out. | |
| Upscale Audio and Primaluna Evan at Upscale provided great customer service when I felt the need for a high-end streamer and amicable outboard DAC -- even tho he turned out wrong about some details. My search quickly narrowed to Lumin and Aurender, and Evan talked me through... | |
| Half speed masters. Are they worth the extra scratch? If we take it as given that White Hot Stamper will beat all the others, I'll need another $5 outlay on the vinyl section to find out. But then we always need some excuse or other, eh? Even if Significant Others find our reasons incomprehensible. | |
| Half speed masters. Are they worth the extra scratch? Like Beatles White Album, this one had no official title and later became known by the dominant cover color. FM's very first album, from the original Peter Green iteration a decade earlier and a continent away, was their only strictly eponymous re... | |
| Half speed masters. Are they worth the extra scratch? Miller Carbon: "I have on my shelf 4 different copies of Fleetwood Mac Rumours: one original vintage vinyl, one Nautilus half speed mastered 'audiophile' pressing, one 45RPM audiophile reissue, and one White Hot Stamper."Similarly, I have multiple... | |
| Power Conditioner vs A/C cables I'm with ghdprentice. If all critical listening could be done late Sunday nights, regeneration and fancy power cords would hardly be an issue. | |
| This is the list of the best makers of audio equipment. Respond if you disagree ROFL. It's 1978 and we're in a dorm, right? | |
| MQA is for chumps Wish I had read this thread before starting another upon first discovering, after changing streamers, that MQA sucks, which is no doubt why Tidal Masters suck. Tidal offers both original and Master versions of many classics, so I put both formats ... | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness Got it, many thanks. Although your particular incarnation would be impossible to replicate, you have given me enough clues to work with for the near future. Will add the Quadrophenia as a reference cut, add Roon, then look to often recommended DAC... | |
| Tidal MQA Hollowness itsjustme, thanks. Need to know what components/software provide these results for you. (Roon sounds like an essential piece?). I'm not asking MQA to be dramatically better, just that it not be noticeably worse. Because you're right, remasters are... |