hitman_hifi
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| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Mrtennis: Coercion??? Who says we're trying to force people to love hifi? Are we jamming people's heads against a speaker and saying "this is what it's supposed to sound like now love it or else"?Of course discussing it won't change anything. List... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? The concern, Mrtennis, is that high fidelity audio has become such a niche market that people are settling for sub-standard MP3 quality. Ergo, the CD market is dying and high fidelity will surely die along with it. Eventually no new music will be ... | |
| christmas music I'm not a big fan of Christmas music but I'd have to say Sarah McLachlan's "Wintersong". It offers both sonics and musical enjoyment to please any audiophile. | |
| Pure Vinyl Software This might make an interesting experiment but it's probably not worth your time. If you have some of those hidden gems that were never released on CD, then go for it. My experience with vinyl recording/restoration software is that it is extremely ... | |
| Small, tube-friendly speaker suggestions needed I've had the same problem finding tube-friendly speakers for my 15W integrated. I settled on the Energy C-3's since I'm on a tight budget and they have a respectable 90dB in-room efficiency. I understand efficiency isn't everything, but it's a goo... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? I do part-time work for a computer audio lab at my local University and am astonished to find my colleagues, and even my professor, have no idea about high-end audio reproduction or just don't seem to care.I too was young when I heard my first aud... | |
| Audiogon "Recordings to Die for" a complete summary Here are some additions I'd like to add:Doors - L.A. WomanJennifer Warnes - Famous Blue RaincoatJoe Jackson - Night and DayJohn Mellencamp - Trouble No MorePolice, The - SynchronicityRay Montford - Shed Your SkinREM - Automatic for the PeopleSuper... | |
| Gain and Loading What exactly is loading? I have an okay understanding of gain since I've been trying to roughly calculate the dB I'd need to achieve normalization with my CD. Tfk, what preamp are you using? I've been searching for a decent preamp that has at leas... | |
| Tube USB Preamp Specifically, the preamp (or audio interface) needs to connect components TO the computer via a USB, or better yet, a FireWire port. Hagerman make something similar to this but the USB port is an input. I believe the same goes for the Wavelength. |