mswale
Responses from mswale
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening PREACH! You nailed it! One thing I do, is once the record is started, you listen to the entire thing front and back. Other rituals include cleaning, putting on new sleeves, looking over the covers, and liners. Yes, purchasing is also a big par... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? YEAH, I'm totally done getting new equipment. However, looking at some used speakers, thinking about getting a new cartridge, oh, yea, want to upgrade all my interconnects, and speaker cables..... yea, I'm done getting new things...... | |
| Mike's Barn. @mikelavigne you should host a listening party, that way we can all do our own videos for everyone to comment on. Got a few records ready to go! Would love to hear how they sound on that system! | |
| Mike's Barn. He's close to me, should try to check it out, that is the most curated system I have ever seen. Yes, the video is horrible, just about unwatchable, shaky, unfocused, never showing the equipment. Think I could so better off-road with just holding... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited Not sure why everyone hates WiFi, when done properly, it works great, nothing isolates like not being physically connected. However for best speed, and uptime nothing beats a direct connection. My streamer is about 40ft from my basestation 2 room... | |
| Oh no, say it ain't so. You guys can be so serious, of course the article is suppose to be fun, not a serious stance on being an Audiophile. That in it's self speaks volumes to us all. That being said I feel personally attacked! | |
| A life sentence!!! I've achieved synergy on my system. It has to be the whole rack. Honestly, everything can be replaced, other than my records. | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? In the mornings when the house is sleeping around 65db, my noise floor in the AM is 25db. In the afternoons, around 80db, noise floor around 30db. Between 80-90db is my critical listening volume. Also kind of my happy place. When getting into ... | |
| Moving to separates Almost all AVR's lie about RMS power. They show 100w, but that is 2ch mode, in all ch mode, they put out 60w or less. If you have ever opened up an AVR compared to a 2ch integrated, it's amazing how much stuff is packed into the AVR. Yes, dollar ... | |
| Maybe critical listening skills are bad? If you don't want to do any critical listening, then just treat it like normal. What I mean is just listen to it. Do you like it "better" maybe, or swap back once and see if it's now "worse". My thought is if it makes you happy, holds your atten... | |
| Streamer Advice Don't have a DAC, but have the Cambridge Audio streamer. It works, and sounds wonderful! Did a back to back with a WIIM, Bluesound, and Eversolo. The CA unit sounded the best out of all of them. It also supports MQA, it sounded very good until T... | |
| AC Power Always funny how this place just forces us all to spend 3-5x the cost of what we are thinking. Come in thinking one thing, come out thinking very different. Asking about a power conditioner, now we are doing a couple dedicated circuits! Think I n... | |
| Has it all been worth it? Just got back into 2ch 3 years ago. Before that I was a teen working as a dishwasher at a local restaurant. All my disposable income went into my stereo. It made a lot of noise, but not sure it was quality, at the time it didn't matter. Went int... | |
| One box solution Oh, no, you just got all that new gear and was so excited about it!!! I really enjoyed our listening session with your old Forte's. From the volume you listen at, and what you listen to, think just a good set of powered speakers is all you need,... | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? Excuse my ignorance, but isn't weight, scale and dynamics all part of the phono-pre, pre-amp and power amp? Do your other sources give you the sound you are looking for? On my system, all the sources sound about the same, in a blind test not sure... |