hilde45
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| What exactly is ROON? Roon is a software program that does three main things: Combines your music: It takes all the music you own (on your computer, hard drives, etc.) and all the music you stream (like from Tidal or Qobuz) and puts it all together in one place. You d... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. This post gets at a real value for both A'gon and ASR -- objectivity: Unlike other reviewer outlets, ASR isn't heavily supported by advertising like most of the audio print media. They have posted unfavorable reviews of generally successful if n... | |
| KEF R3 META or Dynaudio Special 40? I've listened to the Dyns and strongly prefer Fritz Carbon 7's | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. ASRs whole approach of anything that measures bad sounds bad, and the inability to describe how things sound or what people prefer sometimes - is a nonstarter for me. It all comes back to what people hear and what they enjoy most, and no metric t... | |
| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? My experience hearing Tekton was that they were exciting but bright and forward. I'd be more interested in these at your price point, listed on USAM: Dynaudio Contour S 3.4 Paradigm Signature S8 v2 + C1 v2 GoldenEar Triton One speakers Spatial Au... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. As for the amplifiers that I’ve owned or borrowed and enjoyed the most, none really offered what anyone would refer to as spectacular measurements. "Measurements" is too crude a word. @prof was pointing at this issue and this comment ignores i... | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. +1 @prof Well said, well explained, well justified. | |
| The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines. Another ASR hating thread. One need not say that listening does not matter in order to see the value in measurements. Are there ASR folks who think that only measurements matter? Sure. But that does not mean that the measurements done cannot be h... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer Cool. Some remasters are higher res but poorly done. Everything comes down to the motivations and the people doing it. | |
| Who's winning? Depends. The 30k speaker might be bringing in a larger amount of pleasure than the soundbar person, but the audiophile still sees a way to improve it. To use the classic example: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfi... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer In theory you are right that this quieter less compressed version should always sound better. I didn't say better. | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer The high res is quieter. Older masterings sometimes increased the perceived loudness of a track by applying audio compression, which evened out louder and softer peaks/troughs and then normalized the tracks so that the largest peaks are just short... | |
| Streamer, no DAC please? Just so you know, Audiogon has a search bar: https://forum.audiogon.com/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=streamer+without+ | |
| "The room can totally wreck, or make, a system" Personally, I don’t spend on upgrades unless there is an acoustic reason. Otherwise, the money is wasted. I agree that all rooms need acoustic control because the room and system are inextricably linked. As for brand names, I am going to disagree... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? @sns Thanks for the further clarification about your system. It is elaborate and it sounds incredible. Based on what you've described -- plus, I think your ability to hear differences, which may be physiological or may come from your system -- I a... |