kijanki
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| What is Musicality? Learsfool - I've never said that musicians have worse or no ability to listen. What I said was that they are often not so much interested in listening as in performing. Also fact of being musician doesn't make somebody receive or enjoy music bette... | |
| Speaker and Equipment Stand Floor Spikes I had Paradigm Studio/60 speakers on spikes with basement underneath oak floor. I changed spikes to Vibrapods and bass became shorter and more even - I call it more musical. The only drawback of this was lack of mechanical stability (grandson is 5... | |
| What is Musicality? Sabai - Are you suggesting that musicians are better listeners? Nothing can be further from the truth. I have a friend who is jazz musician with degree in music (oboe) but he enjoys playing more than listening. My brother on the other hand finds N... | |
| What is Musicality? Tomcy6Most often I just listen to music but sometimes I analyze how I could improve it. I don't understand why it should be only one or the other. | |
| What is Musicality? Tomcy6I hear this mantra often "foot tapping music", "don't worry be happy - and don't analyze". So, shall we put random pieces together until it clicks after 1000 iterations? We all analyze, but for some reason don't want to admit it. I'm pretty ... | |
| What is Musicality? Tvad - Absolutely agree, but being audiophile I like to analyze sometimes. | |
| What is Musicality? Since we started labeling, let me put my labels:"non-analytical" = not clean"musical" = coloredLet me explain. Sound without distortion might seem analytical or lifeless since distortion adds "kick" - just compare distorted guitar and clean jazz g... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality If you use computer for anything else (I do) - use Firewire interface instead of USB. USB is loading main processor while Firewire is a little more intelligent and has own processor that handles transfers - less load on main uP. I also think that ... | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player Mapman - I could be wrong about reason (production yield) - look here: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1186749514 The main problem with DACs is how to get better than 16 bit linearity. Most you can get in traditional architecture... | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player Arcam FMJ-CD23 was great because of use of DCS licensed RING-DACS (rotating its divider components to get accurate average value). They had problems with production yield of DAC chips and stopped using them. Next model had regular DACs. I've never... | |
| How is there Apple Lossless Debate? Hellofidelity - it does it very well indeed. 16/44 limitation doesn't bother me since all my music is 16/44. The only problem I know of is that it drops clock during gaps and some DACs are late to sync and mute beginning of the song (Benchmark doe... | |
| How is there Apple Lossless Debate? Darkj - Airport Express uses native ALAC so it is better to store in ALAC to avoid additional conversion. Stereophile tested Airport Express for bit transparency and it recovers exactly uncompressed data bit-for bit true. They concluded that Airpo... | |
| Toddler-Friendly Budget Speakers? "The piano finish can show fingerprints"Pledge makes it easy to clean. Advantage of piano finish is that any piano restoring place can fix scratches while it is almost impossible on wood veneer. | |
| How is there Apple Lossless Debate? ALAC ripped by programs like MAX or EAC should sound better than CDP since program reads CD as data multiple times until it gets correct checksum. CDP cannot do that, working in real time, and skips over wrong data. It get worse with older (scratc... | |
| 2k$ speakers that meet my criteria? Read reviews of Hyperion HPS-938. Used one runs about $2k. Be sure it was build later than 2004 since they improved bracing. Their website: www.hyperionsound.com Somebody is currently selling on Audiogon for $1900 but you need to ask year. Not too... |