hifiguy42
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| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? 70-80db | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @dogberry, hear hear! The old idiom "if you can't say something nice..." has morphed into "if you can't say something mean...". | |
| Listening when I listen, it's music only, no distractions. if I'm doing stuff around the house, there is always music playing as a soundtrack to my day but it's just whatever plays on qobuz, I don't program lists or anything like that. | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) On Friday, while moving a piece of furniture that a younger me would have had no trouble with, I tweaked my old back worse than I ever have beforehand. This meant I spent the majority of the weekend flat on my back, with the fewest interruptions p... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Busy night for hifiguy and gal: Gillian Welch - "The Harrow and the Harvest" C, S, N&Y - "Live at Fillmore East 1969" Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath" Paul Hindemith - "Mathis der Maler" Steely Dan - "Katy Lied" Beyonce - "Renaissance" E... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? The Reiner/CSO Scheherazade, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? Sorry ARC preamp (ancient) in case anyone is wondering. | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? I've been using my LS7 tubed pre with a Classe D two channel amp for years and I genuinely love the combination. I've tried a couple of beefy A/B amps but the Classe seems to sound better at moderate volume, which is where most of my listening is ... | |
| Has it all been worth it? @retiredaudioguy, +1 At the end of a particularly powerful work by Salonen (who also conducted) at the CSO last month someone's phone went off during the extended decay of the last notes of the performance. You could see Salonen's head drop in di... | |
| What exactly is ROON? I had it for a while but didn't really use it much. I confess I can't sit still for streaming music (or CDs for that matter) for very long before I am distracted and lose interest. The people who do like it seem to REALLY like it though so your ... | |
| Best Exercise To Improve Capability Of Handling Heavy Amps As a longtime gym rat who originally started lifting to combat chronic back pain, I recommend deadlifts, bent rows (both dumbbells and barbell) and a lot of core exercises. I will add that whenever you are lifting something heavy, don't attempt... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Roberta Flack - First Take | |
| New In 2025 Really looking forward to the Ingenue one-step. I would love it if they did the same treatment with Absolute Torch and Twang, although my OG copy sounds pretty great; it's an album that gets regular play in our house. | |
| Cartridge - sweet spot on the cost/sound curve? I used a BPS for years before switching to an Audio Technica VM740ML and I have become an AT convert as a result. super affordable, with an easily replacable (and upgradable) stylus. https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/vm740ml | |
| Who's winning? Is ignorance really bliss? I believe I would be happier not knowing a bunch of stuff I do, but I wouldn't trade the knowledge for that happiness. |