hickamore
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| Women who enjoy quality speakers n80 and others: ditto. Had an extended discussion with an old friend, symphony player since high school (a prodigy). He says musicians cannot be impressed by anything less than the sound of real music being played in real space. You may have the b... | |
| Why is black so popular for components? Right on, chorus. We know black is cheap. We know black is "cool." Hofuckinghum. What black is NOT is visibly functional or relatably human. I don't envy Darth Vader's kit. Those who do are simply made of different stuff than we. | |
| Why is black so popular for components? Remember when, in the 1980s, silver audio components suddenly became unobtainable? You'd have thought Henry "any color so long as it's black" had been put in charge. Well, I HATE any product, audio or otherwise, that is both black and (theoretical... | |
| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) Nobody is mentioning the women.What was Steeleye Span without Maddy Prior?Fairport Convention without Sandy Denny?The Pretenders without Chrissie Hynde?Quarterflash without Rindy Ross?This being a (de facto) male-only nerd forum, I suggest we reme... | |
| Interesting discovery when my carpets were cleaned yesterday! Wood floors here too. Herbie's threaded gliders on leather mats. Bit of dispersion with some muffling. Works for me, at least for now. | |
| Moving to France Depending on what level of anarchy ensues in November & after -- I myself will be away in a holding zone with France high on the more permanent escape route list -- no major audio equipment coming along for this ride. Dragonfly and powered sp... | |
| According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media Bought virgin vinyl, half-speed mastered Japanese pressings of 1970s classics back in the day. Still unopened cello-wrap. Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and so forth. Of course then I couldn't forese the advent of streaming, so LP/CD play i... | |
| It is not you, the sound really is getting worse Movie audio is a dealbreaker. Unintelligible dialogue with juvenile sound effects. Since forever. At home with headphones is the way to watch a movie, if ever again a watchable movie should be made. A movie with no Tarantino gore, no superheroes, ... | |
| What other hobby... All of the above. 1500 bottle wine cellar, frequent tastings, bottle variation even with the world's finest crus of same producer and vintage, many more vagaries in viticulture than audio engineering. And let's please not even mention any aspect o... | |
| Cambridge Audio Azur 851N Agree with masterumc. Feed the 851N with USB (have not tried AES/EBU or coax) and out with good balanced XLR. This is true whether using 851N only as a DAC out to a line preamp (as I do) or straight to power amp using digital preamp mode (as I di... | |
| Soundstage gone OP feared the outboard phono pre would require "putting two phono stages together." This is exactly what it would AVOID. As sgreg1 points out, outboard phono pre should enter AUX or whatever else is available, NOT the amp's own phono stage. If thi... | |
| USB sucks If there were a definitive answer, all would adopt it and quit debating.But because there isn't, the process is the product, the medium is the message, and the reading is the resonance. Closer to fine, every bit. | |
| Power Conditioner Cables Never heard of it but will have a look.Might be cool having some Norwegian gear in one's system ;-) | |
| Power Conditioner Cables lowrider, sounds like a great bargain if it does all that for such a reasonable price. Like you, I run high current amps straight into the wall. This would be for source devices. Thanks for tip! | |
| Power Conditioner Cables Appreciate the advice from all and will play around until I find the most pleasing setup. Makes sense that if system is sufficiently resolving, which I believe it to be, upgrading to AM cords on all amenable components/conditioners would be the op... |