mapman
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| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation Compressed dynamics and excessive loudness are two different but often related things. | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation BEing the devil’s advocate...Another interesting aspect of modern recordings is that the focus on loud bass makes accurate reproduction on a home system at higher volumes more challenging than ever. Any traditional under-powered system won’t have ... | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation There may be more similarity in how pop recordings and even most recordings in general are produced these days, especially if the target is radio play, but they still do not all sound the same. That’s just another untrue extreme generalization. So... | |
| Why Does All Music Sound the Same; An Explanation Say what? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Uber I use an art usb phono plus a2d converter to usb on my laptop that hosts the music server on attached usb drive. I use audacity software on the laptop to capture the digital at cd resolution and then master the digital. I play the entire albu... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Sending some vinyl to the music server today. Up currently is "All the World Dances" by David Carroll and his Orchestra a 1961 lp on Mercury Perfect Presence label that is what hifi is all about. There is even a diagram on the back cover showing... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? "Ballad of Easy Rider" by The Byrds which for whatever reason is still one of my favorite lp listens start to finish. | |
| I wonder how many audiophiles there are these days People still want good sound but lifestyles have changed and technology improved so not as big a deal to get it as it used to be. High End Home Audio industry is a small niche. Always has been. But there are more really expensive choices out there... | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound Ohm Walsh with patented CLS (Coherent Line Source) driver would be worth a listen for something totally different and very natural sounding. I think they have a demo room at upcoming Capital Audifest in DC area. | |
| How can anyone want more......Just a very happy listener. Because its a hobby and they can. If I had unlimited funds and time to do nothing much else, I might even be crazy enough to do it but meanwhile I sweat out every dime I spend because like you what I have fits my quite demanding needs in most ever... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? That's a good one. | |
| Best all British, except cables, system you heard or can think of. DNM very good British wires. I use them everywhere. | |
| Where is my digital problem: taste, vinyl v. digital, DAC, realities, etc? JB, good to hear that!I have Chord Mojo and mhdt NOS Constantine DAC. I use both in my setup depending on mood. Both very good but very different sound! For one who finds digital too edgy in general I’d go with the NOS Constantine. NOS DACs in gen... | |
| The current best band in the world? In particular check out the fairly recent Crimson live set "Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind (live)". Awesome! 🙉 | |
| What Characteristic Strikes You First About Un-amplified Music? Nothing specific really. I find when things are going right, what I hear is more a function of the room I'm listening in, where I am in it relative to the source of sound ( which determines the "perspective" on the music, something not often t... |