mikelavigne
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| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital let me help you out here with some relevant information;" Per the RIAA: “Revenues from streaming music platforms grew 30% year-over-year to reach $7.4 billion, contributing 75% of total revenues for 2018, and accounting for virtually all the reven... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Most people have CD players. that’s not true. less than half have active CD players in their systems. and few are being added.maybe they have an old CD player or transport in storage. for the last 4 years i’ve had an ’old’ Oppo sitting in my clo... | |
| What's the best isolation system? in a micro-nano particle context i agree active has the same weaknesses, simply much much less than passive.but science and industry accept the precision of active isolation to help them accomplish appropriate tasks effectively.agree it’s expense ... | |
| What's the best isolation system? there is passive, that in essence is a spring. it floats, settles, overshoots, and is soft. even the best possible passive isolation works like this.then there is active which reacts to perceived resonance; it’s stiff since is can start and stop. ... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital a 12 year old thread.we live in the present. | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital “Top-notch digital“ is a misnomer since even the most expensive digital players produce serious audible errors. The three most serious errors are external vibration, vibration and flutter of the disc itself whilst spinning and our old friend scat... | |
| What's the best isolation system? this thread is so ’2002’; if you scroll up you will see posts of mine from 18 years ago. but things have changed and technology has moved on. there is a new sheriff in town, it’s called ’active isolation’. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/ac... | |
| Do audiophiles have a high divorce rate? been married 46 years, to the same woman.was into hifi when we got married, but kids and boats and family-focus put hifi to the side for for 20 years until the kids were gone. since 1994 i've been a serious audiophile, and it has worked for my mar... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital been there, done that. multiple times, in multiple ways.i have 800-900 needle drops. these are 2xdsd vinyl rips of my vinyl i have on my NAS. play them often. and hundreds of digital tape transfers at various hirez levels i can compare to the viny... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital the phrase ’technically superior’ is a misnomer relative to our listening to music. on paper digital recorders do all sorts of magic tricks as far as dynamic range and bandwidth. and data on analog recorders misses the fact that analog recorders r... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital there are a few labels that disclose a choice of 1/2". and those sometimes disclose the source tape’s details. so you have to dig a little to find this information. the cost of 1/2" is typically 66% to 100% more. it’s not just more expensive tape ... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital @sdrsdrsdr Yes. 1/4” tape. I’ve never heard any debate from the vinyl crowd on which is more superior, many discussions though. All seem to agree that tape is the best. I don’t know if this is also the same consensus the digital crowd shares too.... | |
| MSB vs dCS Bartok @rhmmmm What do you mean here? The Premier takes the same digital input modules as the Reference, Select and even the entry level Discrete. Including the latest Ethernet Renderer V2. I have a Premier and I have the Ethernet Renderer in it and it ... | |
| Higher End DACs With a server, we get so many dingbats and ridicule for pulling the stops out, but we are not complaining as the Extreme can sing for itself ;-) there are infinitely more so-called digital experts than analog ones. everyone has a computer. the od... | |
| Higher End DACs interesting how many opinions we have here about what can’t have an effect on digital audio, servers, reading files, and streaming.you read this stuff in a book? or actually personally tested these things?just for the record. |