mapman
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| Don't Feel Guilty Spending $$$ "Plus if I don't spend it my wife will. "A common scenario. I can relate. I tend to let my wife do most of the spending (within reason) because she likes to shop and gets more pleasure out of it in general than I do so that makes us both happy. My... | |
| 12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Mus "Classical music is not a niche market in Europe. It is alive and well."My sister just spent a week in Vienna and when I asked she told me she had no prayer of going to the opera there due to demand and ticket costs. | |
| Too Many Tubes? "tube rolling & DSP are fundamentally different in that tubes may hv additive or subtractive characteristics in specific freq ranges, but they do not introduce addt'l layers of circuitry, s/ware algorithm, &/or other forms of complexity ac... | |
| Don't Feel Guilty Spending $$$ It's all a matter of means and priorities. No right or wrong.Having said that, I tend to feel guilt whenever I buy myself something that I maybe do not really need. Maybe that money would be better spent elsewhere either now or later? My parents (... | |
| Logitech Squeezebox sound compared to CD Player TM, good luck. We'll be interested in your findings. Let me know if I can be of any help with the Touch. | |
| Too Many Tubes? It's funny how many audio people are able to accept the benefits of tube rolling and its effect on sound for better or for worse but cannot digest other approaches to customizing the sound, like digital signal processing, tone controls, etc.The re... | |
| Logitech Squeezebox sound compared to CD Player Back to addressing, the ops original question, IMHO, the SB Touch out of the box and even more so with and external DAC is highly competitive with some of the best digital rigs I have heard out there at any cost. So I would start there.Then if for... | |
| Logitech Squeezebox sound compared to CD Player RBautista,Have you tried the mod to disable wireless when using SB TOuch with an external DAC? I wonder if the mod has any impact there?A scenario where the onboard DAC might benefit due to less RF noise or something along that line perhaps would ... | |
| Selecting headphones and a headphone amp Stax + tube amp is hard to beat. I use TAD Hibachi monoblocks with my Stax as a a more SS alternative and that is a very good pairing. The TADs are a fantastic value for both Stax and tube friendly speakers in general. | |
| Music server Touch is a player, and not a server. There is server software and server hardware. Sb server (now called logitech media server) is a very solid server software choice on pcs for audiophile types that can acclimate to getting top notch sound withou... | |
| Logitech Squeezebox sound compared to CD Player Most of the info on that blob appears to be pure conjecture. Could not find anything that discounted wireless. The things I read that might make a predictable difference is choice of ic out, and nothing shocking there and maybe power supply but I ... | |
| Logitech Squeezebox sound compared to CD Player My sound with sb touch is not veiled and I use wireless. Wireless should have no effect on sound quality. What is the reasoning behind claims that wireless is veiled? | |
| Can NOLA's "Boxer" compete with big floorstanders? "I will acknowledge that some of the soundstage is probably created by the speakers and the room they're in rather than an exact reproduction of the recorded venue, but there is still good image location and palpability within that soundstage, may... | |
| How Many Audiophiles Have Do You Know? I've met a lot who like good music and sound and had good sounding systems but who never formally labeled themselves as an audiophile. If only they knew what they were missing..... | |
| Experience with Denon 100th Anniversary Components Hmm, anniversary products are an interesting breed.I wonder if they are mostly the vendor's way of getting the consumer to pay more as a tribute/anniversary gift to them? Interesting marketing concept. Not sure of the value to the consumer unless ... |