mezmo
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| Does music from your stereo startle you? You may or may not be crazy. And you may or may not be eligible for better living through chemistry. But yes, me too. And Grace Woodroofe, makes music, you may like her. | |
| how do YOU stream? 1TB RAID -> Mac Mini -> ITunes (archiving) -> BitPerfect (playback) -> Kimber USB over USB 2.0 -> Ayre QB-9 -> balanced to the rest. Runs up to 24/192, with BitPerfect automatically adjusting to native sample rate. | |
| What's your view on blind testing? My view? Well, I can't see a thing. Wait, where am I, and what's all this noise about? | |
| Listener fatigue: what does it really mean? B, nice. I've got a serious thing for lady singers (I know, not the preferred nomenclature). Trying to think who can hold a candle to Trixie. Tanya Donnelly, pre-Belly, the track Not Too Soon from Throwing Muses, with her her screeching like a cat... | |
| Listener fatigue: what does it really mean? B -- rock on with the Chris Whitley. Solid. Living With The Law and Dirt Floor are my favorites. Different, but brilliant, each. And do check out his daughter, Trixie Whitley (yes, for real). She did a you-tube video of rather go blind with Brian ... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Brown, think you have captured the essence of this mainia perfectly. You change to X on a leap of faith, not knowing in advance whether or how it should make any difference. At all. And at the end of the experiment, you think to switch back. And a... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. I don't think any of us are suggesting that wires do not sound different -- or that anyone is anything but welcome to, and in fact encouraged, to have and express perfectly legitimate preferences. At any price point, or across them all. Absolutely... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Yea, I've picked up some Mogami Gold studio XLR wires not too long ago. ~$50 bucks. Try them, you may well not be dissapointed at all. And even if you are: $50.Had a similar ephiphany. If most of what you listen to was recorded on these wires, how... | |
| Best AV processors for under $10K Hate to be contrarian -- and forgive me if you've already considered all of this -- but I might argue that "the best of both worlds" won't be found in a single box. (Actually, may be more than two worlds, two channel preamp, multi-channel preamp, ... | |
| Can a new amplifier affect speaker placement? I'd give it some time to settle -- more than anything, in your own mind. Get used to the sound, and why it's different. (That is, unless you're looking at a return window in which you need to make decisions, but even then, give it as much as you c... | |
| Whats my weak link? Will, play nice. Sounds like a fine plan to me. And besides, we've got time and music to fill it with, who says we need a stinkin' "plan," anyway;)Personally, think its the journey, the experiments, the learning and the mistakes (oh, dear lord, t... | |
| Whats my weak link? Gotta ask, but what about the Vandys didn't float your boat? Saw you'd picked them up, and was looking forward to hear what you thought. Seemed, in the abstract and not having any personal exposure, like a great idea. Between the KEF and the Vandy... | |
| Listener fatigue: what does it really mean? Ooh, this is fun lets continue adding to the list of possible sources of distortion.10. Ceiling vibrations. (Weve got walls, floors and windows dialed in, but lets not forget the ceiling. And furniture. And glassware. And clothing. And hair ... | |
| Is it all in my head? Not for nothin, but the last three exchanges totally made my night. Yea. Cheers. | |
| iPad "Remote" App for iTunes Follow up, the other day I broke my OS trying to sort out the permission issue. Who'd a thunk it was so blithely simple to casually break an OS. And I mean broke to the point of a burn down and clean install. Well, live and learn. All that said, m... |