mapman
Responses from mapman
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced Good question. More detail in answers on why said amp is great would be of interest. Also compared to what? | |
| Ever wanted to see a stylus move with an electron microscope? Still a fascinating technology. Amazing it works as well as it does. | |
| Another Audio website asked the question how much money did you spend on your turntable This is the high end audio site. Not the spend the same amount as others one.My Linn turntable cost about $500. In 1987. | |
| FLAC vs WAV It has to be converted to standard PCM format which is was format before it can be converted to analog. So there is an extra step in the process. If done properly it should not matter but may not be in some cases. But the information content o... | |
| FLAC vs WAV Lossless is lossless. Format should not matter. If it does then gear is doing a better job with one than the other foe some reason. I have used both and found format has not mattered. | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? Willie that sounds like me too. | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? It’s just like a having an HD TV. Picture quality varies greatly with source material. But same source material all still looks much more similar and below average by current standards on my old fashioned low res analog CRT 10" Zenith that's still... | |
| Sell or save Keep it as a spare if you think it will be useful someday in that role for you and you have no better spare already.I like to listen regularly. Having a spare keep the music playing when something breaks until it can be replaced. Spares are als... | |
| Is high end audio to snooty for its own good? Is it ever good to be snooty? | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? Al, I am similar I think.I often say you have to know what your target is before you can hit it.Once you hit it, what more is there? Until you stop hitting it. Then the question becomes why? It could just be us having a bad day or going through a ... | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? "But then the next music starts to play and I start thinking, "This would sound so much better if...." and I start fidgeting."Is it safe to assume its not just the variation of quality from recording to recording that accounts for this? I find w... | |
| Unique and Useful Features of Digital Streaming Thread I suppose we could also talk about things that might make one steer clear of particular products. Its the things that differentiate different streaming software and solutions that I am interested in learning about. Beyond just the sound quality. I... | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? Newbee, we are similar in that regard I would say. | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? chayro, but if its "good enough", why keep at it? That would seem to indicate that in fact it is not for whatever reason. | |
| Tekton vs Decware Based on my sample set of listens to date, I suspect to get "fullness of sound" out of a higher efficiency speaker they have to be pretty large in that they have to be able to do bass more efficiently than most and there are technical limits to wh... |