mapman
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| For nearfield listening: which of these towers? Rockadanny gets the high end audio practical-pick-to-click for the day, giving pro monitors a go for near-field listening at home. | |
| For nearfield listening: which of these towers? Guitar center/pro monitors for nearfield listening is a very good call!!!! You probably just saved yourself a lot of money by avoiding high end home audio gear. | |
| What preamp between Burmester and Krell? NEver seen or heard Burmester. Always like Krell pre-amps when I hear them. Downside is bulk and I worry about Krell reliability over the long term in general enough to have steered clear to date, though often tempted. | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Economic globalization will turn out to be a blessing most likely.We are all less prone to fight when in the same economic boat together. That's a good thing I think.When people come together, in any way, it is usually a good thing. The exception ... | |
| Are music servers the future? Tbg, some are I think. But not common. Network bandwidth needed to stream higher than CD resolutions becomes an issue. I have not felt a need to dive into the higher than CD resolution digital world quite yet. Too many headaches for the marginal g... | |
| DAC woes - what to do "What to do, yeah! I really don't know what to do...."Just buy the best reviewed and most widely accepted neutral sounding and detailed DAC and build around it as needed. That would be the BEnchmark. Then be prepared to do whatever is needed step ... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? "Ultimately, what's the difference between Gwyneth Paltrow blogging about the 16 different products she puts on her face to let her natural beauty shine and a group of audiophiles describing ultra high end footers and how it let's them hear the mu... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Frog,I have two teenagers.There is truth to what you say about "kids" these days, but its really a moot point.Times do change, but basic truths do not. Knowing the differences and adapting takes time. Same true when I was a kid. My generation did ... | |
| Are music servers the future? Actually to be clear, multimedia servers (which includes music server functionality and other forms of media) is the wave of both present and future to ride I would say.Music servers alone have limited appeal for most compared to multimedia. Multi... | |
| 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... |