jssmith
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| Equal $$ for Phono OR Streaming? @kennyc : I know lots of people who claim otherwise. These are people who understand that from a scientific standpoint, digital is indisputably technically superior to analog. From dynamic range, which has the capability of being 10 times highe... | |
| Equal $$ for Phono OR Streaming? That's like asking if you want to collect Model Ts or Hellcats. If he likes nostalgia and rituals, get the Model T (TT). If he likes performance and convenience, get the Hellcat (stream). And there's no need to buy a dedicated streamer unless you ... | |
| A stupid question for which there's no sensible answer. Recording, speakers, room, equalization, and given the quality of today's cheapest electronics and cables, as long as you have proper wattage and resistance, nothing else. | |
| Perfect Pop Songs Perfect pop. Military intelligence. Jumbo shrimp. | |
| Why so many angry audiophiles? Some people have their priorities in the wrong place. In the end, this is just stuff that produces temporary endorphins and none of it really matters. People have two common strong traits. They don't like when you question their tribal possessions... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs @northman: " ... at what point in the frequency range can most humans begin to discern notes, melody, tone, ... music"20HzNo kidding. Notes are just frequencies. Melodies are just a sequence of notes. Tone is mostly a measure of pitch of a repetit... | |
| For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question. I have a small collection of silver-faced (1977-80) amps and receivers simply because I like the way they look. | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs @northman: And therein lies the problem. While you may think poetry is beautiful, I may think it's just a bunch of rhymes that bore the crap out of me (which it does). So terms that mean different things to different people are not useful when try... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? @djones51 is correct.The point of getting a dedicated streamer is that some may like the UI of a particular streamer, the instant on feature and the idea that there are no other services getting in the way to slow things down and cause dropouts li... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs Well, first let's throw away the words that don't have a definitive definition, like music, timbre and beauty. Everything we hear is just a set of frequencies. How we interpret them is another thing. One person's "music" is another person's "noi... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs There’s no such thing as a "musical" or ("non-musical") sub. It either extends to a certain range at a certain decibel level within an acceptable range or it doesn’t. Don’t get caught up in the JL "musical" hype.Some of the others are right about ... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes @danvignau :" To the person who claims that classical and jazz are not something one necessarily needs to "Shoe Off) an audiophile system. BfS! Nothing demonstrates our systems' superiority as much as the tightness of an acoustic bass, or the a... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes @danvignau : " What I really wondered was how did this audiophile group all get influenced by rock music, and not jazz."I started with rock and as I became more enmeshed in the audiophile world started listening to classical and a little jazz, bu... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Black Sabbath - ParanoidPink Floyd - Dark Side of the MoonVan Halen IJudas Priest - Hell Bent For LeatherRobin Trower - Bridge of SighsRush - Permanent WavesBeach Boys - Endless SummerLed Zeppelin II & Houses of the HolyEven though I moved on ... | |
| The cost of LP's and CD's - an observation @cleeds Obviously not to me. I got rid of (I thought) all my vinyl in 1990. But obviously to a niche of others it holds some kind of status, in-the-know or hip factor, otherwise all LPs would be at the dump with all the other obsolete technologies... |