kthomas
Responses from kthomas
| Vinyl Outselling CD I think an overlooked reason for the decline of the sales of CDs is the abundance of used CDs that are as easy to buy, and much cheaper, as new ones. You go to Amazon to buy CDs and there is basically a cheaper version used of anything you want to... | |
| Five "Golden Rules" of HiFi? 1. Experiment at your leisure - try new things and enjoy them while you do.2. For quite a while, you can look for moments of epiphany - times when you try something and it is just clearly significantly better than before. That's when you should sp... | |
| LCD Flat screen tv's I haven't shopped in that range, so I can't really comment on specifics. It's hard to go wrong with a Sony.My one piece of advice, regardless of size or TV type, is to ask to see it with a "regular" source - ie, a normal cable or satellite feed of... | |
| Which format to use - mp3 vs. windows lossless, Windows Lossless, IMO. While they are 3X the size, the price of a 500Gb external USB drive is under $200 now. That's the better part of 2000 CDs ripped in a lossless format and fully backed up for less than $400, and getting cheaper all the time. | |
| New Vinyl Setup Thanks for the feedback so far. I probably wasn't clear enough in my question. Given the nature of a vinyl setup having so many variables, it would make sense that a newb would potentially have one or more things wrong in an initial setup, and by ... | |
| The Cost of Cables The issue, in general, may not be the cost of the cable, but the issue (question) Brian is raising IS the price (cost) of the cables. He isn't disputing that "better" cables cost more and/or work better. I have to assume that at this point in the ... | |
| Dunlavy for HT speakers I've never heard a pair of Snells, nor do I know anything about the specific models you have, so this is more of a comment on the Dunlavy's than a comparison between the two.Raquel makes some very good points, though there are lots of reasons I wa... | |
| music these days.... If you're looking to Beyonce for music meaning, you're going to be disappointed. Plenty of great stuff happens in the world of music every day. | |
| Regardless of how much you've spent... I've always been addicted to music, and I've always enjoyed good gear to reproduce it. I remember buying a Yamaha receiver back when it seemed weird that Yamaha produced something other than motorcycles. It had a clock in it, and the On/Off switch... | |
| Dynaudio 1.3SE and 1.3mK....What's the Difference? Upgraded drivers for one. Sam Tellig reviewed the 1.3SE's several years ago and discussed the differences - it might be out on the S'phile site. He characterized the 1.3SE as Dynaudio taking the 1.3 and reworking it without working to a specific p... | |
| What is better than Bose but costs less? Assuming you're not just asking to stir up the natives, as others have pointed out you need to define a price range and application.Assuming you're willing to buy used, a simple, versatile, nice little system would be a Linn Classik for $800-900 a... | |
| High end stores closing do you really care I'll admit I'm not in marketing, but it's always struck me that the manufacturers are as much to blame as anybody for the plight of the B&M stores. If you don't live in a major metropolitan area, you can't possibly see and hear all the gear yo... | |
| Simple, Good Sounding Multi Room for Dummies The squeezebox approach is absolutely a good way to solve this problem in the 21st century. It's also free to try / evaluate, if you have a couple computers. The server software is free, and there is a Squeezebox emulator you can download to your ... | |
| Best bang for the buck turntable? Seandtaylor99 - I'd be interested in a bit more detail around your opinion that getting into vinyl would be a mistake. I've considered (many times) getting a TT and experimenting, and recently have been doing so again.I have several thousand CDs, ... | |
| CD Read Errors--Rare? I don't remember if it was the latest TAS, but I recall Robert Hartley talking about potential CD read errors, and stating that they should be rare. I think the reasoning was much deeper than that we would hear clicks if there were read errors. Th... |