moonwatcher
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| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? @theaudiomaniac yes, New Wave was a neat off-shoot genre. I loved those sounds. I still love legitimate rock and roll and even a little Metal. Many YouTube channels out there say you CAN find rock music still being made today, but you'll have to... | |
| How did 70s rock music transition into 80s music? MTV did change what younger people wanted in "music" on August 1st, 1981, creating an outlet for bands that LOOKED (and sounded) good on TV. But as others note, rock music started becoming pompous and self-important in the 1973-1977 years. And a l... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement Oh, you mean a Crown XLi 2500 isn't "audiophile" grade then at $595. Guess not. Seriously, over the years as far as this hobby is concerned, I've been perplexed by this "push" to Class D. What exactly does it offer at the end of the day that A ... | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? My 2cents: Streaming is great and only getting better as you go up the food chain. Having said that, actually owning music on CD or vinyl means no lawyer, record label, or even the artist themselves can take it away from you. I also note that o... | |
| Has Anyone Compared the DAC On a Bluesound NODE 3rd Gen to a Separate DAC? @wolf_garcia that Schiit Bifrost 2/64 multibit seems like a good alternative to the Ares II at a roughly similar price point. I’ve heard others mention it having better quality textured bass than the Ares II. Heck, I’ve heard a few mention that th... | |
| Has Anyone Compared the DAC On a Bluesound NODE 3rd Gen to a Separate DAC? All this is a good reason Bluesound should make a streamer only (call it the "Point") without a DAC and knock off $100 from the price. I guess they are afraid it would cannibalize the sales of the Node. Sad, because everyone raves about their U.I.... | |
| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito Seems Fremer was mostly pissed that MoFi invited a "non-journalist" - a store owner and amateur vinyl reviewer popular on YouTube to meet with them and discuss the issues instead of a "legitimate" journalist like him or others (whatever passes for... | |
| New streamer, new to streaming I don’t own a Hegel, but if the 190 is similar in function to the 120, check out this guy’s YouTube review and other links he has. He seems to say that to use the Hegel as a renderer (using your phone as a control and not as the "streamer") you ha... | |
| What I really hate about some music Anybody using "autotune" as an intentional effect....I like the jamband Goose, but they need to lay off of it. They don't need it. | |
| MoFi controversy @rauliruegas I think the main gist of the "issue" is that many audiophiles were misled (or thought they were misled) by MoFi's "lie of omission". MoFi never came out and said they were AAA all the way, but many believed that because MoFi never sa... | |
| Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went? @theaudioamp you wrote, "I would argue that lenses still have a long way to go, especially when price is taken into account :-) "....My nephew who has a few Sigma Art lenses would say his are "good enough" and especially his wife, who looks askanc... | |
| Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went? Engineering at any price point is always a tradeoff. No, you "can’t have it all" most of the time - but you can have much of it. I think as others have noted that "technology" and manufacturing has reached a level people only dreamed of say in the... | |
| MoFi controversy One last posting on this mess. This copied from Cookie Marenco at Blue Coast Music. (Yes, just like PS Audio's Octave Records they sell CDs and DSD files of music they record using DSD). "It was hard to avoid the conversation about Mobile Fidelit... | |
| MoFi controversy @theaudioamp I guess that is the "thing"...Are we kidding ourselves that our ears can hear the difference in CD quality versus anything with more resolution? But if studios are recording in 24/96 it would seem best if we could buy the files in tha... | |
| MoFi controversy @theaudioamp I didn't say "perfect" I said or meant "better". PCM is great. We've been loving it since the 1980s. But DSD allows for far higher sampling rates such that interpolation is kept to a minimum. Yes, Paul is very persuasive in his ta... |