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| Classical Music LPs recommendations Al, I just bought a copy of that Romeo and Juliet, and am looking forward to getting a chance to give it a listen - perhaps tomorrow! | |
| paranoid listener, bad recordings If you are listening to currently produced CD's, they as well as the MP3 files are victims of the loudness wars going on, and are often very distorted indeed. | |
| paranoid listener, bad recordings There are some good suggestions above, however it is also possible, even likely, that the distortion is on your recordings, at least some of them. Recording engineers are by no means perfect, and many times the miking/mixing is less than desirable... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Hi Bryon - I have been out of town again for several days, and have just read your last two posts. To respond to the 12/31 one first: evidence for too many audiophiles losing the forest for the trees is all over any audio site. I would estimate th... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Dgarretson, I was speaking more of improvement in listener ability than improvement in technology. It would be the former, not the latter, that would "liberate him to reassess and refine preference," no matter what the context. As I think I may ha... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Wow - I have been unable to read/post here for a while now due to the busy holiday season, and I see that I have missed quite a bit! I would like to comment on a couple of different things here. Mrtennis - I would like to give you an example of a ... | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations Mst, you are correct in your last post, Wagner indeed had many unlikeable, even odious qualities, which he did not try to hide at all, far from it. He was a fascinating individual, and possibly the greatest egotist among non-royalty who ever lived... | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations I believe that one must separate the artist from the man. Wagner was one of the greatest musical geniuses in history, the definitive iconoclast. It can be argued that he affected music more than any other artist has affected his art. For many deca... | |
| Which one do I buy Pre Ject Debut III or Rega P1?? I third the Rega (and the Music Hall would be my second choice, ahead of the Project). In addition to the better arm, as Mofimadness says, the Rega will have better soundstaging and imaging, if these are important to you, as well as better resolut... | |
| P1,2,3: the best Rega for the job I would suggest one of Rega's, then you don't have to worry about a spacer, etc. Nothing wrong with the table isolation or felt mat either, assuming you have a good surface for the table and it is level. I have no vibration problems at all with my... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? Rega Apollo | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Hi Bryon - interesting questions, and I am sorry I can't take more time to answer them at the moment. The very short answer to the first one would be that that of course would depend on the specific coloration in question. The second question is a... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Hi Bryon - I think there is still some misunderstanding here. I am not disputing that there is a fact of the matter about whether there is coloration or not; as I have said before, I believe that colorations are ALWAYS present, and that an absence... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Hi Bryon - nice posts! Your second interpretation of the "reification" comment is the one meant - it is specifically in reference to the concept of "neutrality." However, I don't think it has necessarily to do with your definition by absence, as y... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Hi Bryon - I agree that this has been an interesting debate. I shared this thread with my brother today, who is a sociologist and fellow audiophile, and he had a take on it that I think you and others will find interesting, so I have decided to sh... |