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| You know you have audiophile system when... You know you have audiophile system when...it would cost less to actually book the band you're listening to and have them perform for you live. | |
| Pink Floyd’s brand new song Nick Mason's band Saucerful of Secrets is doing a US tour this year. From what I read, it is focused on the early Pink Floyd albums before Dark Side of the Moon, when they had Syd Barrett in the group. A lot of that music is really good and shou... | |
| How to silence popup messages... Perfect...thank you. | |
| Question for those of you laptop users... I use USB C out of my laptop to USB B into a TEAC DA-AI101. I also loaded Teac's DAC software to my laptop. | |
| Question for those of you laptop users... Just want to add that this laptop has fingerprint authentication, which brings it up faster. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I was lucky enough to know Vic Juris. Although he passed away at the end of 2019, his music lives on. His Steeplechase recordings are wonderful. Vic was actually a student of Pat Martino, but he developed his own style and he can shred a jazz g... | |
| Will Bluetooth ever sound great? Just about bluetooth. | |
| I just bought a Steinway which sounds like a banjo. I've said it before...for what you folks pay for equipment, you could hire a moving company to move a real Steinway B concert grand into your listening room and then hire Yevgeny Kissin to come in and play Chopin Etudes. | |
| How does Donald Fagen do it? In 1978, AJA was such a sensation...and an amazing sounding recording, given the technology that Fagen and Becker had to work with. I wore the grooves out of that one. | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" As I have said on other posts here, a big part of music, especially classical music, is dynamics. A composer writes markings in the score to play a passage either loud or soft or in between in varying degrees. The dynamics are a very important p... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? Let’s approach this from a purely musical perspective. A symphony playing a written musical score will play the notes faithfully, but they must also respond to many other notations in the score that the composer added. One of those is dynamics. A ... | |
| You can Vote for Most Valuable Lead Vocals (Rock Groups) Both my parents were professional singers and taught me what to look for in a voice...if they were alive, they would both say Steve Perry...no other competition. | |
| 1st Album you Ever Owned? 1st - Beatles 65 (Beatles for Sale)2nd - Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads$2.95 mono or $3.95 stereo at Wolworth's Department Store. | |
| New Tinnitus study and possible treatment (via Science Daily) Some doctors and medical researchers are saying that tinnitus may originate in the brain. It doesn't mean you have a brain tumor, but it could be an acoustic mismatch with the ear. | |
| Keith Jarrett on the importance of audio sound quality I think Jarrett's live recordings are great, because no one in the audience dare make a single noise...he's famous for walking off the stage and leaving the theater over the smallest audience noise. God help the poor patron who leaves his/her cel... |