jasonbourne52
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| Danny Gatton @bdp24 +1! Sad that Danny Gatton died too young! | |
| Active Speakers Better? No, per Michael Borresen Active or passive are equally good. Doesn't matter at what end the amps are placed. Speaker wire should be a non-issue. I hold that it is all transparent to the source and therefore of no consequence. Only the neurotically obsessed fixate on the l... | |
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! Want to hear better sound right away? Smoke some funny tobacco! | |
| Can someone help me pick out my first speakers? I recommend the PSB Alpha P3 ($300) now available on Audio Advisor. Quite a nicely engineered speaker for the money! | |
| Streaming You can get an iFi Zen Stream ($399) plus a Khadas Tone 2 Pro DAC ($299). These along with a Qobuz or Tidal subscription ($20/month) will let you listen to a vast amount of music! You do need an Internet connection/modem. This can be free through ... | |
| The Beatles Revolver I agree! What the Beatles did with Giles Martin is ART! Tampering with the original tapes is in effect to produce something that is NOT the Beatles creation! The CD cover should say " Revolver - An interpretation by Giles Martin in Multi-Channel ... | |
| CD/SACD Changer for the lazy audiophile....suggestions? Sony - I have one! | |
| What is the Best Sounding Stand Mount Speaker in the world? BBC LS3/5A - Rogers, Goodman's, Chartwell, Spendor, KEF ... all produced them! They still command high resale prices - around $2K/pr. I have the Rogers. Yes, they need a sub for the bottom octave but the rest of the frequency range is so well bala... | |
| Speakers that scale DCM Time Windows are competitive with five-figure speakers. I have a late- production pair (52779, 52780). They easily handle the power of 200+ wpc amps. Large- scale symphonic music and opera, no problem! | |
| Upgrade path question. Upgrade analog or turn to digital? Keep your LP playback system and get an iFi Zen Stream and a Topping DAC. That's all you will need for streaming. Keep buying LPs! | |
| Upgrade path question. Upgrade analog or turn to digital? Yeah, and put yourself at the mercy of the streaming services with their compressed data streams! They do this to get their files to fit on the 'Net pipelines. Once data is discarded it cannot be recovered! | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. 90% of YouTube is cr*p! | |
| Cables to settle brightness Many recordings have a hot top end. What you are hearing is likely an accurate rendering of the recording. Rock music is particularly bad in this regard! Turn that Marshall stack up to 11! | |
| Jay’s Audio CDT3-MK3 wins over Aurender W20SE Streaming services often apply data compression - data is discarded so files can fit the digital pipeline. That's what you get for convenience! | |
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