mapman
Responses from mapman
| Are music servers the future? One important thing to realize about the latest generation of music servers is that they have made considerable progress in enriching ones listening experience with information (referred to as "metadata"), similar to how it used to be with vinyl, ... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Benchmark. | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? "Most people wworry more about sound quality and features, and less about "build quality"."Whoops, forgot to say they also care about aesthetics. Build quality may factor into that aspect of it as well. | |
| Are music servers the future? "But sound is the only truth."I'll buy that. Or better yet, what we hear is the only real truth with this stuff. Unfortunately, nobody else can hear what each of us hears. So there you go...... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Most people wworry more about sound quality and features, and less about "build quality".If it sounds good and does what is needed, and lasts a long time, then that infers sufficient build quality to deliver the performance intended.Not that build... | |
| Are music servers the future? THere are many reasons why the same digital recording in multiple formats could sound different. Beyond the usual hardware related reasons why any two sources might sound different, with digital throw any possible number of software related factor... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? +1 Los Lobos | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? Obviously, like most industries with a long history,there are a lot of quality companies and people in high end audio.Then there are the pure charlatans and everything in between.It is what it is, not that much different really than most things. | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Best Buy faces a lot of competition these days. A common business strategy to combat that is focus on service and quality. With the right approach a chain like Best Buy offering very good audio products that one can actually hear and audition befo... | |
| Top brand speakers "I am Always honest and things are exactly as I said they are."Famous last words..... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? SAles trend data for key "high end audio" companies would be a good indicator of where its heading. I'd look for units sold more so than revenue. Never seen anything like this though. Pure "High End Audio" operates under the radar of the financial... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Remember the Star Trek The NExt Generation episode called "The Game"?Very prophetic, not just about the possible effects and impacts of addictive games, but how technology really does seem to be overtaking and wearing us all down, hopefully not fo... | |
| Need help on speaker decisions "If you like the music of yesterday. buy tube amp and vintage speakers, if you enjoy HT and the sound of today. you must buy SS amp and newest speaker on the market."I think that's a pretty accurate assessment.Not to say old music can't sound equa... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? "The difference being I have experience in cryoing audio items, 15 years of experience. "Geoff, saying something doesn't make it true. It applies to everyone.What I see from you is all words, doubletalk as needed, and hoaky products with only word... | |
| switch from Tekton 6.5t to Tekton mini Lore? Totem, like Dynaudio, are generally big hitters for their size and also benefit from lots of room to breathe. |