kthomas
Responses from kthomas
| So...What do you listen to in your car? Usually a stack of my most recently acquired CDs, and favorite CDs from my collection the rest of the time. | |
| Am I a burning out audiophile???? At some point you have to admit to yourself that what you've got is pretty damn good, even if there might be something better out there. That doesn't mean that you're swearing off pursuing better / different, just that you can not worry about it c... | |
| If you have a "kick booty" DAC, does the transport I'm not sure all the attributes are the same - reading a HD reliably is basically a sure thing, while reading a CD in a transport in real-time apparently isn't a sure thing, or even close to it. What is the same, in a standard setup, is the transp... | |
| If you have a "kick booty" DAC, does the transport I've always been of the opinion that if a transport really does make a huge difference, then we need to move rapidly to a different read/transport mechanism than the traditional transport. Reading from digital media and delivering to a high qualit... | |
| I'm thinking that youngsters are getting burned . I think the young definitely understand that they can have music in the home cheaply - they understand internet radio stations. My 16-year-old son has the most diverse tastes in music of anybody I've ever met - whenever I walk by his room, music i... | |
| Sound Quality or Convenience? Shadorne - I don't know how big your music collection is, but I have to believe hard drives are big enough now to do that now. WMA files in lossless compression get you approximately 2:1 compression. At 300 CDs per 100Gb and 500Gb drives costing $... | |
| Sound Quality or Convenience? Convenience at the source - a HD-based system with a fantastic interface and, to my ear, as-good-as-or-better sound than from a CD player. For the rest of the system, SQ, as the system requires dominating a whole room. | |
| A Very Narrow Listening Room If I had your room, I'd consider trying to find a pair of Dunlavy's - they recommended placement along the long wall, speakers wide apart and toed in significantly. They're not in production any more, but you can find used models and they were ver... | |
| Point of diminishing returns The point of diminishing returns is just past the amount of money you have spent and justified to yourself as necessary to achieve the sound you want, and just before the amount of money other idiots have spent on their systems for sound refinemen... | |
| Dynaudio, Wilson, Avalon, Aerial I'll submit a biased endorsement of the C2's. I own a pair and use them in my 14x19x8 room. My room is panelled and carpeted, so doesn't have some of the acoustic issues you mention. One thing I really like with the C2's is the DDC - I don't know ... | |
| MP3 and Ripped, here's a question for you guys.... Rapogee - you can definitely make perfect copies using the right software - no degradation from the original, provably identical.Loading these files onto a computer, reading it from a HD for playback, and out through a good sound card's digital ou... | |
| How do I transfer files from Windows Media Player Bodine - I'm not clear what you're asking. Some media players have "move" functions - I don't know if WMP does or not. If you have the same music file in two different places on the same computer, WMP (or any other player) will see them as two dif... | |
| MFSL LP's & CD's Yep - check eBay, as suggested. The prices range greatly, depending on the specific title, but there are many that will go for well over $50, some getting over $100, even for opened mint condition discs. Sealed discs go for even more.An excellent ... | |
| Differences with CD ripping speeds audio folklore? I've always been convinced that there is a lot of folklore around the handling of digital data, including the burning of CDRs at differents speeds. There's plenty I quite possibly don't understand or know, but I've always been satisfied that I can... | |
| MP3's and the audiophile WMA has a lossless format. There are others, but I wouldn't try to list them - I use WMA. This approach definitely gives you bit-for-bit support, and loading them all up and running them from computer definitely gives you the flexibility you descr... |