mapman
Responses from mapman
| Roku ultra streaming versus Apple 4K TV Don’t know but Roku to your DAC of choice does CD quality audio quite (surprise) well with Plex app. | |
| King Crimson +1 on Thrak don’t overlook it and most any live KC album is worth the money. | |
| King Crimson Wise to take those lyrics from the late 60's to heart especially again now in times like these: " Epitaph Lyrics [Verse 1] The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly glea... | |
| Audio nonsense Yes it is desirable to have an engineering STANDARD... Correct. At least to start with. Otherwise, all bets are off. What happens from there will vary widely case by case. | |
| Audio nonsense I have never understood why having a flat frequency response for speakers is a desirable attribute when the human ear hears almost every frequency differently, as described in the Fletcher Munson curves. Flat frequency response is desirable if ... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns My advice to those who continuously spend lots of time and money with fuses and tweaks and the like always looking for something better or different, that money would be better spent invested in acquiring and properly setting up a good pair of wid... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns Fascinating is an apt description. Different from most for sure... Been around in various forms now for over 50 years. | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns I will say though, that with a good symphony recording, if I close my eyes at home, I can convince myself what I hear is similar to what I would hear at The Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore or Carnegie Hall (in NY), maybe a third to two-thirds... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @jerryg123 Well I should qualify that the mbl demo I heard was a full scale symphony orchestra recording and you could locate the players exactly in a 3-D area about 24-30’ wide at the immediate front of the listener I would estimate and simi... | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns @mijostyn To your point, I have heard only one setup EVER that did the 3-d soundstage to the extent you describe...and I have heard 100’s over the years I would estimate. As I have alluded to on occasion in past threads here, that was a demo of... | |
| KEF Blade 2 Enjoy those Blades! | |
| Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker, Singer and Co-Writer of ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale,’ Dies at 76 😕 | |
| is the 1990s "WIDE MODE" setting the 'soundstage' of today, and a gimmick? Could be. | |
| Ridiculous resale price of vintage equiment Yes the shop I know of with good prices on vintage gear also stocks and sells a lot of records and gets a good price for those so I expect the gear is mainly a way to get new customers who will buy records which is where the profit actually is. | |
| Ridiculous resale price of vintage equiment The prices can vary widely. I’ve seen at least one shop that specializes in fixing up vintage gear and they sell for a very reasonable price, sometimes a small fraction of what some others similar might ask. Depends on the local economy. |