mapman
Responses from mapman
| How close to the real thing? Human ears (and brains)are complex sensors and information processors of an order far exceeding science or technologies ability to model exactly.Given this truth, any hypothesis regarding being able to accurately predict the outcome of an individu... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? "When is digital going to get the soul of music?"For me in my house, its got it today.Not to say it is perfect (nothing is), but close enough most of the time which cuts it for me. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Data volumes and available bandwidth of many home digital systems and associated higher costs is still a major barrier for large scale application of high res digital. It will continue get better over time.Source material may still be limited, but... | |
| How close to the real thing? Well, the whole negative feedback issue has been beaten to death pretty thoroughly already in other threads.My conclusion is that it is just one of many design and execution factors that affect results depending on how well it is executed.Having h... | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? Milla JojovichI used to think this a guilty pleasure, then realized that it was actually quite good and others thought so as well. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Kijanki,I think your analysis is spot on!THis evidences itself as lesser detail and resolution at higher frequencies. This will offend some more than others. Those with younger highly trained ears are likely more susceptible in general since abili... | |
| How a turntable is like a gym membership Been loving Radio Paradise of late.Also my own personal channel I create when I load up 13000+ tracks from my music server on the Roku Soundbridges (one one each system) put it in random play mode, and let'er rip for hours on end with few repeats ... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? No doubt there are most likely way more music lovers in the world than audiophile/techno-obsessive types.I believe most of these tendencies are well established as youths and have perhaps some but minimal chance of changing significantly as we get... | |
| The Beatles Mono CD Box Set Foster,Yes, it can!I have had to deal with some noise issues associated with power cord proximity to IC to the power amps. Also, tube noise was part of the mix.It is under control currently. But I should probably redo all my wires to provide bette... | |
| How close to the real thing? I also tend to believe that practically, in most well thought out real world setups, that a higher % of those using SS amps will sound closer to the real thing to me.I say this based on the fact that I hear more variations from what sounds rel to ... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound.....Anyone????? "60 tube watts can't be greater or equal to 100 SS watts it can only be less."yes, but soft clipping nature of tube amps in general compared to SS may allow things to go louder off the same # watts than SS and still sound good.Some Class Ds might ... | |
| Why not horns? Those are very nice looking horns and seemingly not overly large either. Not cheap but not as expensive as some I have seen.I wonder how they sound?Too much for my budget currently though.BTW I am dabbling with setting up a third mostly A/V system... | |
| How close to the real thing? Its true that by definition a reproduced signal that is not exactly identical to the original source (ie exactly the same as the real thing) is distorted and that the reason no two systems deliver the exact same sound is because each distorts the ... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound.....Anyone????? Most of the amps mentioned are good ones.I believe system synergy and listener preference more determines amp performance in practice than any inherent objective sonic superiority of one over another by design.The Class Ds are small and energy eff... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound.....Anyone????? Sounds like high damping factor with the Wyreds.The Bel Canto Ref1000m monoblocks had a similar positive effect on bass with the ported designs in my system. Bass is about as good as it gets currently!I think ported speakers in general tend to ben... |