kota1
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| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @cleeds First, there is no "war." Tell that to Virgin Record stores or Sam Goodies, wiped out and a distant memory of nostalgia: Tell that to the brick and mortar "high end" audio stores, remember those? Who won the war you ask? Custom inst... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? I have found that the great majority of people from any walk of life are not appreciative of HI-FI sound or equipment. But put them in front of a 100 inch screen with surround sound and watch the jaws hit the floor: | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? I don't think it is worth the price of admission today to enter the "audiophile" kingdom. Check out this article and you'll understand why the "audiophile" is becoming a dinosaur in the age we live in: https://www.musicradar.com/news/an-audio-eng... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? It made me realize that being an audiophile is relatively rare. I understand, as 2 channel music hasn't changed in over 70 years. It started out as 3 channel, went to two channel and got stuck. The stalwarts will dig in and defend the beach but t... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? Glad to hear I'm not wasting my time then :) | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? I don't know if investing tens of thousands of dollars in videotape playback systems today is a sickness. But we seem to be surrounded with choices that are gaining momentum, and losing momentum: Losing- CD sales, SACD/DSD, hirez in general Gain... | |
| Bad news for home theater enthusiasts @lhasaguy Streaming will soon take over from physical media Did you know the fastest growing category in audio is LP sales? https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ Do you remember how 3D discs came and left without a whimper? I have a 3D cap... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @mahgister I never LISTEN TO THE GEAR first and last ... I listen to acoustic first and last and learned how to listen in the process...... Thats my secret to reach ectasy.. +1, when you get the acoustics first and last, everything that follo... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? So often I find myself resenting the fact that there are only so many hours to listen to HiFi That's why they invented whole house audio. I have systems all around the house of various types and brands using the DTS Play-Fi ecosystem, works for m... | |
| Best Digital USB cables under $ 300.00 ?? Cables are interdependent on what you connect them to. I can't say you will like what I like but for under $300 I prefer Pangea and Mapleshade. | |
| We've been measuring sound all wrong... Eleven experienced listeners were individually asked to audit several short music excepts and the components extracted from them using different methods. 11? Well, I guess its a start. The high-quality sound decomposition also enables novel type... | |
| Do I REALLY need preamp and what do I upgrade the amp too? The ML Unison preamp/streamer is only $199 on sale from the original $599. You could connect it to your outboard DAC via toslink, run ARC, and get a nice before and after graph of your room. You can run quobuz from the playfi app on your phone. Yo... | |
| Do I REALLY need preamp and what do I upgrade the amp too? @ghdprentice Typically I would start with the preamp. Before calibrating the room or in order to calibrate the room? (like getting a preamp with dsp) | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? @hifidream You get it, you have to intertwine the subjective with the objective to make "budget worthy" decisions. It is so straight forward, not difficult, and much less expensive than new equipment upgrades without getting the room calibrated ... | |
| Do I REALLY need preamp and what do I upgrade the amp too? You have a vaulted ceiling, have you measured your in room FR? I would not drop $ on gear if you don't have the response curve you want in that room. You can hang acoustic clouds to offset the ceiling reflections. |