jssmith
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| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? Tiger Prowl - Cualli (electronic show-off music) Battle for Dawn - Brand X Music (epic cinematic music) In Deep and Wooded Forest of My Youth - Xanthochroid Sad But True - Metallica (for the drums, which were recorded in a very unique way) The... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live No. Not even close. Although, playing a Taylor 410 myself, Magnepans seem to get closest to an acoustic guitar. | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer @yage "However, considerable jitter needs to be introduced before audible effects can be heard." Bingo. And yet people still waste thousands of dollars on DACs when a $130 SMSL would more than suffice. It takes just 5 minutes to look up a mea... | |
| What is the added value of a streamer over a networked dedicated Computer IMHO, instant-on is the only advantage, although streaming through my Amazon Echo starts just as fast. But if you have to boot up a laptop or tablet.... Otherwise, bits are bits. | |
| We Can Make Classic Cars Outperform Today's "SuperCars": Why Not Vintage Audio? No need. My vintage amps sound exactly like my newer amps and "improving" them won't make any difference in the sound since any differences would be beyond the level of audibility. | |
| Where do you want your system to go when you go? I don't care. It's just stuff. "Stuff" isn't important. I've made a list of the value of all my stuff that's worth selling, and the best and easiest places to offload it, so my heirs can get appropriate cash for it if they don't want it. But I don... | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One The Last Samurai - Hans Zimmer | |
| Do you consider cables to be a "component" of your system? No Although I would tell them they'd need an additional $50 for interconnects and speaker cable. But there is enough technical and blind test proof that cables are irrelevant if within specs for the application. | |
| Politics and Music While I pay little attention to lyrics, they do seem to have an effect on some people. The young and undeveloped seem particularly susceptible to musical propaganda. But my thoughts are that there are probably no lyricists, or other types of celeb... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? @thyname The gear itself is meaningless to me 🙄 Obviously. For those who think everything sounds the same. Where did I say everything sounds the same? As a matter of fact, in my first statement of this thread I explained how DAC manufacturer... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? @nonoise Then you obviously don't understand the concept of confirmation bias, nor I suspect cognitive dissonance either. | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? @stuartk I prefer to not let myself be influenced by others confirmation and cognitive biases. I don't consider gear a hobby. I consider achieving the best sound at an acceptable cost/benefit ratio a hobby. The gear itself is meaningless to me.... | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? @stuartk What if there are two dozen cars that go fast, handle great, and stop good? You gonna waste your time test driving all of them? Or does it make more sense to filter them first? Plus, there's way more than two dozen choices when it come... | |
| Do you build anything for your high fidelity system? If so, what do you make? I built two sets of speakers. Bill Fitzmaurice Davids, because I wanted a flat response speaker with good bass extension at a good price. And Linkwitz LXMinis, because they are so unique, they fit in the space I had available in my office, and I w... | |
| I wrote/mailed tax checks today... @jeffrey75 The 2008 housing crisis was set up in the mid-90's under Clinton by his pals Barney Frank, Andrew Cuomo and many others. Republican Phil Gramm is not without blame too. GWB just continued the Clinton years' push to have unqualified Am... |