mapman
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| Why do designers/manufacturers...? "audiophile grade"Good is good. Audiophile grade" is slang for stylish and expensive to boot. Style is very subjective and no two people are likley to value exactly the same style. | |
| Quality system, make poor recordings sound better? Do the poor ones really sound worse or just worse in comparison to how good the good stuff sounds?AN improvement is an improvement. It can only make things better, though some way more than others perhaps. | |
| Left to right cable mismatch Things can only get better now. | |
| best floor in listening room Its all about overall synergy.Any floor is fine long as you put things in place accordingly. Wood floors will tend to interact with sound and be more lively than most others. So proceed accordingly. Less speaker, like a smaller monitor, may be mor... | |
| Tube preamp vs Tube cd player Tube CD players only make sense as an easy (Not the only or even best) way to introduce some tubes into your digital initially.So 1 all the way. Make the SS amp Class D. And tubes done well a nice option but not a requirement for the pre-amp.The r... | |
| Not as much activity on analog here Lots of lps still out there to play. Plus a lot of it comes dirt cheap if you look in teh right places. A good omen for the continued presence of vinyl/analog source material. And yes, you need good stuff set up well in order to milk the most out ... | |
| Not as much activity on analog here I have spent a lot of time and a reasonable amount of money getting my setup to where I wanted it to be in recent years.I started off getting my vinyl tuned in. That helped establish an in-house reference. Then I focused on digital.Once I had both... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? If it continuously "grabs you" and "draws you in further" its high end, or at least as high end as needed.YMMV. | |
| Best Sounding Musicians How about Chet Atkins? I could listen to him play the phone book on a transistor radio. | |
| Best Sounding Musicians Also I will note that this list has a strong caucasian bias, but hey, what list is not biased in some way? | |
| Best Sounding Musicians I am no expert, but Heifetz alone is beyond reproach from where I am sitting. | |
| Best Sounding Musicians Jascha Heifetz -- violinCharlie Haden -- string bassI'll definitely agree with these two.The others are all good picks but more debatable for me.I'd toss Andrew Latimer in as an alternative to David Gilmour. | |
| Not as much activity on analog here "LP will always sound best if you have a very good turntable."Not true. I already have many CDs ripped to my music server that sound as good or better than lp copies. Its very much a case by case things these days I think. Either might win in any ... | |
| Not as much activity on analog here ++Chayro.THere is some truth to what Downunder said also, although if you get it right these days, the need to chase the latest and greatest becomes more debatable. Still, I hope I am around still to see where digital is say 10-20 years from now. ... | |
| Not as much activity on analog here "Are we a community that has not grown much"Probably. THis stuff is EXPENSIVE!"all our questions have been interested ?"I think the biggest and most relevant questions mostly have if one takes the time to look. One off things still come up."Is dig... |