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| 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... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? The better highly efficient Class D amps out there today, and some are quite good, can deliver 500w/ch or more for comparable cost to lower power Traditional less efficient Class A/B or certainly class A amps, tube or SS.So you can get efficiencie... | |
| Greatest Children musicians of all times is it possible to be a truly GREAT child musician? Very good, way better than others perhaps, but great? Greatness usually requires some time to gel. | |
| Vapor Sound Audio/tons of Value for $$$$ Some things sound too good to be true. Don't know if Vapor is one of those things or not. But you have to ask why or how they are able to do what they do and then why not others? Doug's article explains a lot about as well as anything I have read ... | |
| help a rookie; 8-year-old laptop music server died " From what you say I do understand why you would want to go down that path."Meant to say I do not understand why.... | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? Yes, getting an integrated means an expert matches amp and pre-amp for you. Assuming suitable speakers, nothing too challenging or esoteric, and not an unusually large room, you are probably good to go sooner and for less money than otherwise. | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? I missed what speakers you have?I'm not sure HE speakers makes choosing amps any easier. HE speakers tend to be sensitive to everything, including noise. It can be like listening under a microscope where any difference good or bad is apparent. It ... | |
| help a rookie; 8-year-old laptop music server died I'm a computer systems engineer with 30 years experience and also a music lover and "audiophile".I'd agree if you are computer adverse, I'd stay away from fidgeting with a computer as the streaming source and perhaps from using it as a server as w... |