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| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz DD, who has more HF products invested in their system, you or TBG?From what I read here, that alone will be the determining factor on which sounds best. :^) | |
| Maggie Disappointment My local dealer sells Maggies. He has let me borrow other gear to try at home, but I have never pursued buying Maggies from him. Its one of the value added services a local dealer might offer a prospective customer. Its a dealer discretion kind of... | |
| Classic rock: best remasters "Mapman, nobody is saying dynamic range is the only audio parameter worth mentionng, but if it ain't dynamic I ain't interested."To each their own. Many probably feel that way. The problem is that a single dynamic range metric per track or album r... | |
| Classic rock: best remasters ++ on Lowriders mentions. | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? Definitely play around with the various ways identified to hook the gear up. Listen and compare. Only once you have it set up the way that sounds best should you consider any next steps, if still needed. | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? Atmasphere, you play a real Mellotron? Do they still make those? Do you maintain it as well? | |
| Fake Audiophiles Isn't an audiophile simply someone who cares about home audio sound quality?Am I missing something?Why would someone fake an interest in sound quality? The only reason I can think of is to sell something to a true audiophile. Much better ways to s... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Dd becomes the star child.....this weekend....be there, Segue way to also sprach Zarathustra.........πΆπ¦π§π·π―π’π₯π₯π½π½π½π½ | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Flaming lips - embryonic | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? We can't hear your system. Turn it up some! :^)Seriously, have you done everything you can to get what you have set up best? Have you started to listen critically? How does it sound? Does it need to change? If so what are your goals for the sound ... | |
| Classic rock: best remasters It's true that is where the biggest market is these days but I think it mostly impacts newer pop recordings targeting the mass market.Still better probably than what I remember hearing coming out of my AM radio which was the closest equivalent bac... | |
| Is revealing always good? Its always good to be revealing. What actually gets revealed may not always be to ones liking. | |
| Zany measurements and theories Seikosha,The thing is the highest temperature would be at teh point of contact between the stylus and the record due to friction there and dust tend to accumulate towards the front of teh stylus as it moves through the groove, not down there.Its a... | |
| Classic rock: best remasters "According to the official dynamic range data base a great deal of the reissues of classic rock recordings are aggressively compressed. "That may well be the case, but I agree with Phasecorrect. The dynamic range as quantified there is relevant an... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? Its more useful to discuss the order in which one tackles these things. For best results fastest, you always want to get the biggest issues resolved first. That is the amp/speaker/room domain That makes it very important to get this area all right... |