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| 500 Greatest Albums of all Times Rolling Stone and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are also heavily biased towards mainstream music forms that derive from or resemble American roots music forms, like the blues primarily.Even "art" rock bands like Yes, Genesis, The Moody Blues, Por... | |
| What is a high end stereo SUPPOSED to sound like? Socrates,That's a fantastic article. One of the best I've seen on the topic.Audio hell indeed! Stay away!!!I hope to see more and more "born again" audiophiles after reading that! | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Ok, never mind then. | |
| What is a high end stereo SUPPOSED to sound like? Well, if its expensive, it should also sound pretty darn good.Aren't expensive things supposed to be better? | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? "Again, I'm not talking about volume. I'm talking about the impact, dynamics, feeling, whatever "Obviously, these all depend on volume/SPL levels attainable cleanly. Can't have impact and dynamics and maximum feeling without sufficient volume/SPLs... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Also remember to consider that continuous SPLS above 83-85 db or so are generally regarded to be harmful to our ears. SO, practically, be careful about what you wish for in terms of loudness and dynamics like a live concert. You just might get it.... | |
| Lossless Files Vs CD's Steve,Makes sense.Logitech Media Server and Squeezebox Touch convert .wav files to and from FLAC for higher bandwidth transmission over the network as I recall. It seems to do a good job based on results as best I can tell. Not sure exactly what c... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Roxy, My OHMs do it for me as well but require a larger amp to do it best.They are not horns nor conventional box/dynamic speakers. The OHM CLS Walsh driver configuration used is fairly unique.I have heard some very large and expensive conventiona... | |
| Lossless Files Vs CD's Audioengr,What is the reason for the sound difference between FLAC and WAV? Is FLAC a more limited format in some way than WAV?Is it a format related limitation or something more to do with software for creation or the playback?In my case, 99% of ... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Yep, in general, the quick recipe to best get impact of a live concert is larger speakers with more and or larger quality drivers, the highest power and current quality power amp you can manage to drive them, and a quality source to feed it all.Bo... | |
| Is a vinyl rig only worth it for oldies? Lacee,I agree with you about the recordings from the 50 and 60s and how they were made in a manner that set a certain bar, distortions or not.Now, given that we are in the year 2012 50 years later, does that mean that a vinyl rig is truly in fact ... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? The Audio Asylum thread is a good one with valid points.Its not easy and requires first knowing what "there" means to you, and then a lot of work and experimentation over time perhaps to get there. It took me years (decades actually) but I do not ... | |
| 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... |