mapman
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| Buiding listening room from scratch - need advice Start with speakers that will meet your listening needs and fit into and work well in your room and go from there.Consider omni versus more directional versus everything in between for example. Omnis will sound similarly good from any listening po... | |
| Can headphones ever be as good as high end stereo? When choosing phones, don't forget to give how and where you will use them and overall comfort ample consideration in addition to the sound. Like shoes, different styles/designs may be more confortable to wear and work best case by case for differ... | |
| Can headphones ever be as good as high end stereo? I have older Stax and newer Sennheiser, Audio Technica and Klipsch phones/buds. Each is different and has its charms. If you like the sound of Electrostat speakers or Maagnepan, you will like the Stax and/or other newer ES or planar magnetic headp... | |
| "The Breeze" I am not a huge Clapton fan on the grande scale of things, but Road to Escondido is another more recent Clapton release worth a listen. | |
| Buiding listening room from scratch - need advice So many ways to go....can't Rives help you select equipment as an extra bonus for the money you spend building them a home?Otherwise I would recommend a system similar to mine. No joke. Of course, that is what most happy listeners here will recomm... | |
| "The Breeze" Three sides? Now that's something completely different! :^)Put some bonus tracks on that fourth side, for God's sake! | |
| Is DSD download already an extinct format? "I have listened to 192/24 PCM versus double DSD of the same material using SACDs as the source and double DSD wins hands down. "Tbg always manages to determine what sounds better when comparing two very similar things. Can I assume he is unbiased... | |
| Is DSD download already an extinct format? " I'm sold on native DSD being better than PCM"Why is that again? Is there a concrete technical reason or reasons? I would think a quality implementation of each playing same resolution source material would be more alike than different. What woul... | |
| Why are there no high end cheater plugs? Is it even possible to "cheat" and also be high end? :^)If so, untouched money to be made here, someone..... | |
| Reference 3A Sema Zen specs now posted You just have to like to listen to it, nothing more....... :^)If you wnt to see some rally ugly speakers, take a look at my system. Plain Janes if ever there were one, but they do make beautiful music.... | |
| "The Breeze" How much was the record?I see my local B&M audio shop asking $30 a pop for most releases. You would expect good quality for that price but never a guarantee with records. Its old technology reborn that is probably well past its prime in terms ... | |
| Can headphones ever be as good as high end stereo? Headphones are way easier to try and audition than a home system.The beautiful wall of sound will be different, more encompassing and less in front of you. Some pricey audiophile phones and/or phone amps may attempt to simulate a soundstage and im... | |
| Ripping CD's - Bypassing Computer CD Player RL, So far I am using mostly MusicBrainz Picard to autotag FLAC after ripping. Is there a tool from dbpoweramp vendor that enables tagging similar to while ripping that automatically pulls best metadata from the 4 multiple metadata DBs dbpwoeramp ... | |
| Zu OMEN - hmm Yeah, as we all know, sometimes it just does not work out no matter what.I think of high sensitivity speakers though as like listening under a magnifying glass....every little detail, good or bad becomes magnified and bigger/more significant. SO I... | |
| Zu OMEN - hmm I think higher efficiency speakers are more "finicky" pretty much by definition in that all aspects of both sound and noise are amplified more efficiently than otherwise.SO I think it kind of goes with the turf to expect to do a lot of tweaks and ... |