mapman
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| Why Don't More People Love Audio? The only solution is to offer better value over time in "high end audio". Then more will come. Will the "high end" vendors profit more or less? Like most things I suppose it all depends. | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? IT's probably just "high end" audio as defined in these parts that more do not love. I think many love good music and good sound and find their version of it in more ways than ever tehse days, often on a limited budget.Many people do love anything... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "Would it not be of infinitely more value to accept the fact that there is creativity taking place in any decade and any style?"Infinitely. That's why there are those things called "standards". It gives you a "standard" by which to compare contras... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Hopefully it will not offend anyone if from now on I refer to Geofkait as "Jesus of Tweaks". "CD tweaks" at a minimum.Unfortunately many of the zealots are turning to computer audio and ripping these days so there is need for a new messiah there I... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Yup me too.I did have the advantage of employee discounts at the time though to help me stretch my very limited student budget that went into both equipment and buying music regularly.I started off as a kid with a Magnavox record player with built... | |
| Jazz for aficionados "my view of music is far from academic;"I would say it is more than that but has a larger than average academic portion that is quite "sound" in of itself.Not that there's anything wrong with that.... :^) | |
| Audio Research and Martin Logan Montis "What difference does it make if the system sounds OK?"A technical mismatch does not mean the results will not "sound good". Its a red flag indicating performance as intended may not be optimal. But nothing says optimal "performance" means best so... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD "If you are not a climatologist or scientist at NOAA or NASA, then you only know a tiny bit about the subject."That's true thanks to our modern media which seems no longer capable of reporting the news in an unbiased and purely factual manner. For... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD "...throughout geologic time" that is. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Thing is climate has always changed drastically throughout geologic The other thing is we know things we do today can impact climate.The other thing is we can control the second but not the first.If you choose to do nothing about something that yo... | |
| SACD & other Formats CD is limited. Vinyl is inherently flawed.There is a difference.Not to say that CD is better sounding than vinyl necessarily. Just a lot easier to get to perform well up to its inherent format limits which perform pretty darn well, hence its longe... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Shame to think of all those really good really expensive high end systems that according to the will never reach their full potential without magnetic conduction. There is always something better, no matter what one has.Its the audiophile curse. L... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Chuck Mangione was big in the seventies. Feels So Good in particular. Not too deep, but I always enjoy his stuff when I hear it. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz "Because they are so diffuse in their sound presentation, I am not surprised that you can't tell much difference much finer distinctions that quality cabling brings."That's not what I meant. I can tell a difference in most cases. In some cases the... | |
| Best Speakers For Electronica Music I think Totem products including Arros are quite well made. Thing is Arros are big hitters for teh size due manily to the quality of the product but also quite small. They might due fairly well with Electronica with a good powerful amp (to avoid c... |