mapman
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| Most "Musical" sounding speaker cable under $1000 DNM Reson might be worth a look.I find their ICs to be most coherent and musical top to bottom and would expect similar from the speaker wires. | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Also often more current delivery with many speakers, probably including the Gallo's but less so for the Klipsch.The Gallo bass drivers fire sideways as I recall so that alone would probably up the ante in terms of power needed to deliver a certain... | |
| Lossless Files Vs CD's "for a disk that is in good condition that will happen rarely during the playing of a disk, and not at all in many or most cases."Probably one explanation for why I can't hear a difference in most cases. The eror correction built into CD redbook f... | |
| What is a high end stereo SUPPOSED to sound like? I also agree with The Duke! | |
| 500 Greatest Albums of all Times This is an outrage! :-)OF course Rolling Stone is biased towards a particular genre and demographic, ie rock music and baby boomers. What else would one expect?Maybe they should just do the 500 greatest ROCK albums of all time. That's probably the... | |
| Why are so many albums poorly remastered onto cd "I think it is a deliberate--trying to match the loudness of current recordings via heavy use of compression"No doubt many more recent remasters seem to do this compared to earlier CD versions.I do not have a problem with increased loudness catego... | |
| Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved They still sell cheapo record players at Target for about $100.Should those be improved? Or should those who can afford better just look elsewhere?Do you tend to think red or blue on such things?Same with computer audio. There is some really bad l... | |
| Why are so many albums poorly remastered onto cd Don't tell me I'm in the minority in thinking that most remastered CDs I listen to are actually done pretty well, often better than ever before. | |
| Lossless Files Vs CD's I don't hear any real difference generally, but I would give the edge to the lossless files in terms of overall quality consistency and reliability in that they effectively take the error prone real time optical read aspect of playing CDs out of t... | |
| 500 Greatest Albums of all Times Who picked those albums mostly, Methuselah?Unfortunately I have a lot of them, particularly the older ones cloer to the top, so I guess that means I'm old too. | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? "Put it back in the system and it's like the most beautiful woman in the world and her twin system are beckoning me to their bed. It's that good!"Hmm... I find that hard to believe!Would you believe.......?Don't tell me these elevators will also b... | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? "Is there something out there under $1000 that really is a giant killer? "I'm guessing almost anything home made that works. If its elevated, its elevated I would think.Practically, I'd first work to avoid EM interactions among cables by arranging... | |
| Is a vinyl rig only worth it for oldies? Movies shot in Cinemascope have some unique inherent distortions (see the technical difficulties section in the referenced article) yet are generally quite lovely to watch.How about modern digital Imax?Which would you prefer?Why should vinyl/digit... | |
| Why are so many albums poorly remastered onto cd A lot of newer remasters are remastered with greater average loudness levels than before. The sound can be much different as a result, better or worse depending on the individual preference and other factors. Louder means clipping often comes into... | |
| Diana Krall Survey I like her tune "Temptation" on the "New Jazz Divas" compilation. Just a touch sultry and sexy. Very nice! |