jssmith
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| Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system? @pwdmarkI think it takes a certain personality trait to prefer metal (same as with any genre), but I think Tool is one of those transition bands that people can dip their toes in to find out. They live on the border of hard rock and metal, their a... | |
| Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system? @limomangus@arcticdeth I grew up at the perfect age, of the beginning of the NWOBHM music My first album was Black Sabbath’s Paranoid ... WHEN IT WAS A NEW RELEASE (facepalm/smh). Talk about feeling old. But as fits my personality type, I never go... | |
| Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system? @cd318 Hmm... maybe someone should start a thread on well recorded Heavy Rock and Metal albums available in the digital format? As far as dynamic range, that's already been done.https://dr.loudness-war.info/ | |
| Does Heavy Metal music benefit from a high end audio system? First, I don't equate "high resolution" with price. The recording engineers certainly don't record on $100K speakers. Or even $10K speakers (although Genelecs come close).Secondly, Led Zeppelin is not heavy metal. Black Sabbath is recognized as th... | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? @djones51 : Agree. | |
| RE: the question: ":Why do forum interactions become contentious". . . 1). A person who feels the need to waste their time PM'ing their anger has no life.2). Getting upset at the inane rantings of a total stranger shows that you care too much what inconsequential people say and are letting them control you.Just hit t... | |
| DAC That Punches Above Its Price Point The thing that matters with DACs is whether they produce noise above an audible threshold. Most don't. One that produces noise far below audible thresholds is the SMSL Sanskrit 10th MK II for $140. | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? People don't like their belief systems challenged. It's the same reason many wars are started over religion or ideology. And due to cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias, it will not stop until/unless humans evolve. You could censor it, but t... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @sns So much for scientific rigor. My last post’s questions as to cable naysayers cable purchasing decisions was not meant to be rhetorical. So it seems the objectivist cable purchases are actually subjective choices, based on whatever? They don’t... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @oldhymec 'It does get old people trying to save ME.Like Master M said. "What if I don't want to be saved?"'They're not trying to save you. They're trying to save the less knowledgeable people you may influence. | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Blind? | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. @khughes: Being almost as old as you, I can relate. Back in the day my first album was Black Sabbath's Paranoid. And I went to concerts by Heart, Kiss, Styx, Bob Seger, etc. I still listen to some old stuff like Sabbath, Trower, Rush, Zeppelin, Th... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. If you think you've missed out then you got stuck in your teens, like most people, and haven't kept pace with the great music that followed.Remember, the 60's gave you a lot of songs like Yummy, Yummy, Yummy by Ohio Express which reached #4 on the... | |
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? I sold all my CDs, except for remasters and hard-to-find. I'm now 90+% Amazon Music HD and the rest ripped CDs. So I stream from either an Echo device or my laptop through a S.M.S.L Sanskrit 10th MK II DAC. Go to Audio Science Review to see dist... | |
| Why the cost increase? @winnardt... some people have figured out a way to make some money and you haven’t been able to either take advantage of it or beat them at their own game.This is something I learned back when people were criticizing oil companies for high gas p... |