moonwatcher
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| Two audio components no one really talks about From the OP, "There has got to be diminishing returns on a sound system when your room is limited in what it can do with the acoustics." Indeed, but we all try to do the best we can with those limitations. Many of us can’t put speakers where they... | |
| how much should I spend to get a better turntable than my current turntable? I see the OP’s TT listed at $299. My budget was similar to the OP. I ended up with a U-Turn Orbit Plus (around $600 total I think after the "upgrade" to the acrylic platter) it came with an Ortofon 2m Red which I plan on upgrading to the 2m Blue s... | |
| Anyone have Warfedale Linton 85th anniversary? @grislybutter definitely looking at some Dynaudio and Dali speakers along with the Polk R700, which of late has been getting some positive "buzz" from all the YouTubers, sound quality-wise if not for the pedestrian (boring) looks (who thought wash... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing @deludedaudiophile considering some of these companies are more known for being "lifestyle" companies than for the products they produce, what you say is likely true to a point. | |
| Have you ever solved a high end audio issue using non-audio technology? Or, visa versa? On a lark I bought some vibration pads a friend had recommended from Diversified Products like you'd use for HVAC work mainly looking to use them under my vinyl turntables. I thought I'd try them under a CD player that skipped on loud bass notes... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered @deludedaudiophile "expecting" something is not the same as "proving" it. Now we have proof. Will it be something that might be useful? Maybe. Sometime. Engineering is after all "applied science". The better our understanding the better we can do... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered "This article has to do with how electrons move at very cold temperature. Alas, cables and tubes taken to cryogenic levels seem to affect the electrons to some level that is just being learned. Relax. " And people worry about their power bills if... | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing Nothing wrong with it, but we know they aren’t getting say 500X "better" sound than from a pair of $2000 Polk R700 for their $1M. What they are getting (hopefully) are speakers that are a work of art, beautiful beyond imagination, ones that will f... | |
| Just got a new Bluesound Node. Very disappointed! To the original poster, I would return the B/S Node and perhaps try another one from another vendor to hopefully not get one from the same batch run. If it (the first one) is defective you’ll find out. Sadly this goes for nearly anything in manuf... | |
| Just got a new Bluesound Node. Very disappointed! Not to hijack this post, but obviously many of you on here have tried the gambit of low priced streamers up to ones far more than I could afford. My question is this: How do you think the sound quality of an iPAD feeding an external DAC via USB... | |
| Best Sound Track Ever Vote for One Blade Runner by Vangelis was outstanding. [Aside: Wasn't there something about the soundtrack being "lost"? Was it found or recreated for the release of the album? Anyone know?] 2001: A Space Odyssey. The score helped make the film as much as an... | |
| Anyone have Warfedale Linton 85th anniversary? I don’t have them but came close to buying them last year (before they jumped 33% in price). What gave me pause was that more than one YouTube reviewer commented that the tweeter wasn’t very good and had a "grainy" sound to them even at modest vol... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @cleeds Indeed files altered with MQA are not "bit-perfect". That was Neil Young’s issue with the way they were advertising his music. If they were altered in anyway, then they weren’t HIS "studio masters". I wish MQA would go away. There’s been... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? Amber Rubarth's version of REM's "Losing My Religion". | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @ghdprentice I read a posting on another forum by a guy (a musician) who had uploaded his files to Deezer and then downloaded them and he found they were indeed "bit-perfect" without any mumbo-jumbo changes. Perhaps Qobuz is the same. I like Ti... |