mapman
Responses from mapman
| 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... | |
| Not as much activity on analog here I love good analog sound as much as the next guy, but these days I am loving digital as well and it is getting most of my play time. Analog is treading water essentially for most. You have to really love it exclusively to make the investment asked... | |
| What sub under a grand? YEs, two good subs are almost always better/easier than one. | |
| Seven Days by Sting I think I hear something like that briefly for a split second listening to the youtube video on inexpensive headphones off my work computer.Don't have this at home so won't know. Room would have to be very quiet for sure if its what I heard on the... | |
| Sweet spot in the AudioQuest line of cables "I've found that the AQ products to be consistently neutral and not overlysystem dependent. "Me too. Most any AQ product is an easy good choice. | |
| Andrew Singer of Sound By Singer Last time I was in Sound By Singer, about a year before it shut down, a concerning % of the very expensive esoteric gear I encountered either did not sound right or had operational defects. Just saying. Always glad to hear about good customer serv... | |
| Fuses that matter. Ask Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson about fuses that matter. :^) | |
| What sub under a grand? Rhythmik is a line not talked about much that has some unique technology to recommend itself. I know at least one or two around these parts with good taste I'd sy that like them a lot. |