immatthewj
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| High quality CDs @rman9 what @stuartk said related to the MFSL hybrid SACDs. I actually started listening to them (the red book layer) before I bought my SACD player, and some of them just blew me away due to the sonic quality (not just because I like the ... | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? Yes, while listening to the complete Panera catalog I often need a few glasses of wine to take the edge off of the meth. LOL! @viridian how does that work out for you? | |
| High quality CDs I am not really a fan of classical but I am finding the crop of MFSL hybrids to sound fantastic; unfortunately, I did a search on ebay for MFSL classical SACD and came up empty handed. However, MFSL does have some classical red book issues out th... | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? I remember a long time ago tomato juice and beer was sort of popular; I remember it being referred to as a "Montana Mary." I don't think it tasted anything like a dry sherry, though. | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? @rooze @jond @rooze did you really make tomato wine? The mind truly boggles man. 😋 LOL! That reminds of of this guy I worked with for a couple of years in Saudi Arabia. There was a lot of homemade booze and almost everyone made their own ... | |
| Wine, audio, and music. How many of us Aphiles enjoy wine when listening to music? @randy-11 I take it that you are now hitting the harder stuff? | |
| A "golden warm" audio memory @secretguy I was a nomadic airline mechanic (prior to post 9/11) and the Pittsburgh area was where I ran out of energy (in ’91) and my travels ceased. The springs and the falls can be wonderful here. On edit: I picked up that Cary preamp in t... | |
| “Faithful to the recording” @tylermunns when I hear what I, personally, would describe as "flabby" bass, the sound I hear makes me think of woofers that have come loose and are just slopping around. We come back to the subjective versus objective descriptors. Not to way lon... | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question Thank you to all for suggestions and information. I have made some notes and I put some 5AR4s on my ebay watch list so that I can find them easier if I decide to pull the trigger. I also went back to upscale audio and I clicked on a 5AR4 to rad ... | |
| “Faithful to the recording” @stuartk I guess what I typed was inaccurate. Within the last couple of years I did buy two new pieces, a SA10 and a SLP05, and I did read a couple of reviews for both of them. However, after my last prescription to Stereophile expired over 20 ... | |
| “Faithful to the recording” @stuartk maybe that's why I seldom read a review anymore, except to sometimes get specs and prices of something I find interesting. | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question @russ69 oops, I forgot about the whole tube hoarding thing. And I wasn’t even thinking about it along those lines; ever since I bought that pre I’ve been considering tube upgrades and a spare rectifier in case the stock one takes a crap, so I wou... | |
| “Faithful to the recording” I don't necessarily hate them, but a lot of the descriptive terms become subjective when used to describe sonic qualities. So they may not mean the same to me as they do to the writer. | |
| “Faithful to the recording” LOL! There was a point in my career as a wanna-be-audiophile where that's what I was striving to hear: "faithful to the recording." But who knows what that even means? Often, different sections of the final mix are recorded at different places... | |
| Upgraded McCormack DNA-1 or Dennis Had Inspire SEP? @isaacc7 thanks. |