hilde45
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| "...and I don't take any advertiser money..." Couple good discussions of this topic: https://youtu.be/6dwT5uWRMXQ?si=NEEpaOKfwnWQ8ree&t=117 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhn1ELAqhw4 Key point: a reviewer who wants to keep his audience has to get the sound right. If they're being paid... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer @slaw It's like that bathroom graffito: "No matter how beautiful s/he is, someone, somewhere is sick of their sh*t." | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders @tcutter I see a lot of visual symmetry in the room which is quite pleasing to the eye. Did you make some aural compromises to achieve this? Or does it just happen to sound better AND be visually symmetrical? | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS @mattw73 I’m just more open to trying something that may be deliberately not as transparent or without the lowest THD. I agree. I have an R2R DAC and a tube amp. I had a tube DAC and it just muddied things up too much. I had another DAC that ... | |
| "...and I don't take any advertiser money..." What counts as "money"? I think the answer is "a lot of reviewers don’t take advertiser money." This is not a field to get rich in. I think that reviewers have a spotty record for trustworthiness for a different reason -- they like to start tren... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer @slaw He has the "Charlie Rose" disease. | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS "@mattw73 Straight wire with gain approach doesn’t interest me as much these days." Agree. A good DAC and good preamp can sure help bring out the sound. Not sure why some folks believe no preamp or a minimalist dac is better sounding. At the r... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer [The recording of KL] responds very well to my tinkering around with bass and treble on my PEQ-1. I can make it sound excellent. Therefore it is not an inherently bad recording. If we said that a certain brand of ground beef responded well to a... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer Haven't seen a thread with this much overstated garbage in a long time. Your criticism suffers from the same distemper as the sentence you're criticizing. Kinda invalidates it and impugns you. | |
| Power Amp or DAC - weakest link, help please? I have listened recently to both a Bryston and a Benchmark amp. I have stopped thinking about the DAC's importance so much and have come to think that the amp-speaker combo is where the magic happens, especially if the DAC is sufficiently good. G... | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Good for you! I think of multiple subs in a couple ways: Like room vents for heat — the more you have, the more even the dispersion. Just the temp you want without any fanfare from any particular vent. In terms of cancellation. There were some t... | |
| Tubes and Subwoofers Sure do! I used to connect the subs to a second pre-out on the tube preamp but now I take the signal directly from the amps. Possibly helpful: https://youtu.be/Wo5TwacV7-c?si=jf3xRhWFgk_WD1BX [AI summary: This video provides a comprehensive guid... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer Um, I quoted Donald Fagen using an expletive to describe his reaction to the great Denny Dias’s guitar solo. It’s an amazing solo and moment. It’s here. Sorry for quoting the word Fagen used. That got my post deleted. Apparently, the "use/menti... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? That Supratek for $1500 looks quite amazing. (Review here: https://6moons.com/audioreviews/supratek/chardonnay.html) Here’s a question, @nightfall -- do you have anyone near you that could fix or upgrade equipment, should you have the need? I hav... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. I've been enjoying a Ken Burns documentary on America and the Holocaust (2022). It's on PBS and other places. |