ieales
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| Remasters - are they better? What exactly is it? The first series of Classic Records RCA reissues cut directly from the master tape with very little EQ or change. Listeners were unhappy because they did not hear "better" versions of what they were intimately familiar with ! What they receive... | |
| Remasters - are they better? What exactly is it? Over the last twenty years or so a lot of pop/rock music has increasingly been mastered for play on car stereos, mobile devices, and earbuds.A lot of content today is reduced bitrate. OTA radio stations 'rip' material to MP3 for smaller storage. F... | |
| Remasters - are they better? What exactly is it? If you were weaned on 80’s or later pop recordings, please don’t post. ~<:-PI’m just not sure how someone can disagree that there’s not a huge difference in the sound of older stuff vs newer stuff.. Maybe you like that old nostalgic sound.. If ... | |
| Remasters - are they better? What exactly is it? You can pretty much tell what decade something was recording by the quality of the recording.Nonsense. Like many things in life, recording quality is a bell curve. a flat transfer of the original analogue master tapes is best, nothing added and no... | |
| I need some techy help in order a preamp--resistor values. First, it's a level control, not a pre-amp.It can also be an input selector.I've used passives and a slew of actives for 40+ years. Each has a sound. Each interacts with cables and associated electronics. There is no free lunch.SMD resistors have ... | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? A fair number of LPs/CDs contain a photo of the group/orchestra playing while being recorded.When listening to the recording, have you been able to correlated what you hear with what you see?Only valid if the recording is mic'd stereo. If the sess... | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? with a lot of recordings … the vocals are placed further back than the instrumentsOn pop records this is probably incorrect except for solo guitar, sax, etc.On live opera, correct. | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? yes, but the listener does not move so all the room reflections are also time displaced. If one moves their seat, reflection times change as well.IMO, this helps account for the popularity of the egregiously awful compact cassette among retrophile... | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? My system is very modest but sounds wonderful ... because of the room treatment and meticulous attention to the setup. probably no need for "to me"If only people would realize it's the room!As a recording engineer, I mostly didn't give a rat's pat... | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? Amen.IMO, most HiFi haven't a clue as to what constitutes an accurate presentation. Lord knows that most shops are incapable of an accurate presentation.As far as rack and TV, if they are covered and treated to be non-resonant, they do not seem to... | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? pretty much what Eric [bdp24] said.System: BiWired Spica TC-50 polyprop recap. Lead shot filled spiked stands. Speakers attach to stands w 4 Isolate It 50 Duro 0.25 x 2.25 circular pads. Kimber 2.5m BiFocal-XL. cd6006, passive LC1, passive XO1. 2x... | |
| Pin point imaging isn't for everyone @erik_squires Instruments are always louder at the sides than in the centerIn the few [under 5] times I've listened to compressed music, I would agree there is a hole in the center. On well recorded material on my systems, never.Most music, live o... | |
| Pin point imaging isn't for everyone @erik_squires filling in the center, an area where traditional 2 channel playback is lackingA friend once said "It's like Joe Pass is sitting right there." No system I've ever owned or used in the studio had a center hole.If there is a hole in 2 c... | |
| Best electrolytic capacitor How long is a piece of string?What source, what resistors, what wire/pcb, what transformers, what topology, what tubes, what speakers? | |
| Impact of phase inversion by preamp What evidence do you have that Polarity is a 50% proposition for CDs?@geoffkait What proof is there that it is anything but random? |