mahler123
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| Bluetooth vs Turntable Recommendations Upgrade? Do you have aturntable at present? I am not a vinyl guy, but I recently bought the Technics 1500. I admire it's build quality and speed stability, but given the recent advances in Bluetooth codecs, if I was choosing between the tt and ... | |
| Hi-Fi and the Folly of Perfection Another thread started by a Geezer ruminating that even though his first system from his early days had a small price tag, it gave him more pleasure than the megabucks systems he now uses. I used to wonder about that until I actually resurrect... | |
| Requesting recommendations for simple and easy to use music streaming devices You didn't define a budget, but i really like the Cambridge Audio CXN 60, so much that I just bought a second unit for another system. It costs about $1100. It has a superb DAC that you can use for other digital sources, and a really good app to... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions I got into Classical about half a century ago, and some of the stuff that hooked me in does do much for me now, perhaps due to over familiarity. The OP is retirement age so I am not sure what appealed to me as a teenager would work for him. Agai... | |
| Is a highly discerning system enjoyable? Hearing the occasional wart in a recording shouldn’t ruin your appreciation of music as a whole. And it’s fun to notice new details in familiar recordings. So I emphatically answer No! To the thread title | |
| Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to OP why the angst? There is so much music that we can choose from. If a given Artist doesn’t appeal to your sensibilities, why force it? I listen primarily to Classical. For years friends, many of them accomplished Musicians, would hector... | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions +1 @marklings You might try listening to a really good Classical Internet Radio station, see which Composers appeal to you, then explore. That is basically how I started | |
| Budget friendly receiver choice MidFi equipment is undervalued. One can get a lot of enjoyment and quality reproduction | |
| Best digital format (non streaming) Presto Classical doesn't off DSD but has a huge selection of other HiRes downloads. HDTT is another site and they off DSD | |
| Budget friendly receiver choice I had an Onkyo for several years, frankly can't remember the model number, it seemed similar to yours but had no RC. It worked fine, no issues, sounded excellent. I switched to Anthem 520 because I wanted the ARC, but the Onkyo was reliable | |
| Kim Simmonds Has Passed @ 75. I used to have a Savoy Brown album in my early teens, before my listening tastes changed and went in a different direction. I don’t like to nitpick (well, actually I enjoy nitpicking, I just don’t want to be criticized for indulging in it), and I... | |
| Best digital format (non streaming) +1 @drmuso and @kr4 A great multichannel mix can add so much to Symphonic recordings, and in two channel a DAC that can accept the DSD output is also special | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? Tech Hi Fi in Ann Arbor, Mi, 1977. All entry level. A Pioneer receiver,Garrard turntable, Advent III speakers. Had to replace the receiver when it died after a few years but the speakers and tt did yeomans work for another three decades | |
| New Mercury Living Presence Mastering For me the real question here is the Mercury recording approach. It seems to me to have been regarded as a sine qua non in high fidelity for the time, but also lauded simultaneously as somewhat minimalist in comparison to some alternative technolo... | |
| New Mercury Living Presence Mastering I bought the first two boxes of the Mercury reissues that was released about 5 years ago, and then the 10 disc Paray set from a Japanese exporter around 2 years ago. I was surprised when the Eloquence box had a fair amount of material not covere... |