moonwatcher
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| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? I liked them from Murmur till Monster then sort of lost interest. If any of you haven't, check out Dead Letter Office. That's a really good album with some great covers that rise up to perhaps best the originals. As an aside, I agree with Michael... | |
| Intriguing Speakers From Germany Sorry, but I record concerts. Anyone who thinks microphones are accurate is smoking crack. Even Schoeps CMC-MK4 into a Sonosax preamp by someone who knows what they are doing in setting record levels and gain offer only an approximation of realit... | |
| Has anyone noticed a slow down in sales? With real world inflation running about 12%, if it was calculated the way it was during Jimmy Carter's time, many people are putting unnecessary purchases on hold. I know I am. On the flip side, some would think that, "Hey, I'd better buy this or... | |
| Qobuz hell Just FYI for those in the U.S. who might not know: If you like Tidal (any paid tier, with or without MQA) you can get it for a yearly subscription through Best Buy "dirt cheap", and make it price competitive with any other streaming service. That’... | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... I miss the days of Monster Cable. | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... All this may say something about the relative quality of the Fluance speakers and the drivers they use. I've never heard them...wasn't a fan of the yellow drivers just based on looks. Good luck with your project if you intend to finish it. | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... @thespeakerdude perhaps, but if they are soooo good, then you’d think people would be keeping them for use in a secondary system, or passing them down to relatives or friends, not pawning them off on eBay. Most speakers I have bought have been rep... | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... I’m with @carlsbad. We have to note that despite their embrace by so-called audiophiles, there are a LOT of USED KEF LS-50 and now LS-50 Metas for sale relatively cheap on eBay and other outlets. That alone says that maybe they grow old fast on pe... | |
| Cheapest but good cables…. SVS has some good quality to price ratio cables. Their Soundpath Ultra gives a good bang for the buck. As usual it all comes down to how much you want to spend. Cheap but good interconnect cables are made by Worlds Best Cable using Canare or Moga... | |
| Best Basic CD Player (no SACD, USB, etc.) @shutupuface sometimes (but not that often) they’d mention gapless playback on the spec sheet or in the advertizing blurb. I know Cambridge Audio mentions it in their ad copy. That’s another brand of basic player many people seem to love even if o... | |
| Best Basic CD Player (no SACD, USB, etc.) Denon DCD-600ne is a great basic player. (I have the DCD-800ne I bought last year because I did want USB for FLACs and DSD). +1 for the Rotel CD11 Tribute as well. Whatever you buy make sure it is gapless so all your CDs play like they are suppos... | |
| Why is it that every time, lately, that I'm interested in a thread... I'd be interested if any of you get a pop up saying "This page is not responding" often when on the forum? My Internet is reasonably fast (Spectrum) and I don't have issues with other sites? I am using Edge, not Chrome. Does this happen to you a... | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? On my circa 1982 AR-9, the smaller sheets of diffraction limiting flat acoustic panels around the tweeters and midrange drivers turned to a messy dust and need to be replaced. (These are panel around the drivers that fit inside a larger, thicker a... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? Just beware that "wall wart" powered Ultrasonic machines like the Humminguru and all of the even cheaper knockoffs you see on Amazon do NOT provide in any way, the same level of small bubble formation and cavitation and cleaning that "real powered... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I would hope that at $3700 these don't sound bad. In fact, I hope they do sound great as per the desciption of those who have heard them and Stereophile Magazine. But all things being equal, would you rather spend $3700 on these or on a set of Are... |