n80
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| CD ripping for the lower end. Why would there be a loss in quality between WAV and FLAC? I know that FLAC is compressed but it is still lossless. Is quality lost in uncompressing the file? Anyway, yes, I would probably like to have tags and such. Does AIFF support tags/metadat... | |
| CD ripping for the lower end. I don’t know what you mean. Yes, I’m using a CD player. And yes I have streamed Tidal and played music off iTunes both via an RCA patch cablefrom the laptop If that qualifies as”digital” then yes, I’ve gone “digital” and I misrepresented myself. B... | |
| CD player just tanked. Not interested in vinyl. Too much of a fetish to me. Too fiddly. Too precious. And quite frankly, while I can hear the difference between vinyl vs CD on a good system, I'm hard pressed to say one sounds better than the other. So certainly not wort... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. I was able to get a few minutes in my listening room-turned-refugee-camp and socks in the rear facing bass ports helps a good deal. Without the I did not even want to listen to this album.Aerial Acoustics actually makes a 'plug' for the bass ports... | |
| CD player just tanked. No. The Arcam is still at my cabin...where my daughter and her husband are living while their new home is being built.....And now my son and his girlfriend plus two dogs and a cat are living in my home because of the hurricane so I effectively hav... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. An idea occurred to me. I really can't move my speakers much further out from the wall than they already are and moving 120# speakers just for one album is kind of nuts. But, the bass ports on the Aerial Acoustic 7Bs is in the back. I may try putt... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. Audio Research LS16 tubed line stage, Madrigal Proceed HPA2 amp, Transparent balanced cables, Aerial Acoustics 7B tower speakers with Transparent Super BiWire cables. Basic Sony CDP. | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? In 1980 I got a Toshiba Tuner/Receiver, a set of gigantic "Lyric" floor speakers a Teac tape deck and a turn table of some sort. I was a junior in high school and was in heaven. I still have and use the Toshiba.When I got to college my wealthy roo... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. I only have one recording of the Saint-Saens but it is the Telarc with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.Will look into Budgie. Thanks. | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. It seems odd to me that it requires a better speaker to cope with what by all accounts is a CD that is not particularly well produced (comparatively). It seems to me (but I am a beginner) that everything in the chain has to be at a certain quality... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. Thanks gosta. Although I am a new audiophile and don't have a lot to compare my system to in regard to other equipment, I understand that the system I have is decent. (Audio Research LS16 tubed line stage, Proceed HPA2 amp (Mark Levinson) and Aeri... | |
| 50 years on---the brilliance of The Band and their astounding debut album. When I was in high school in the late 70's I was very much into Led Zep and harder type rock. We had a home room teacher who was a bit of an oddball. He would try to get us southern kids riled up by asking us if we thought that God had a sense of ... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. Hey, thanks for the help. That clears everything up. | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. I joined the Steve Hoffman site and posted about this. There seems to be a consensus that this is just how that album was produced. It seems like I remember hearing that U2 was influenced (among other things) by electric dance music which is, from... | |
| Good Achtung Baby CD? I got a bad one. djones, my memory is from the original release but it is also from low end audio gear so I think that has less to do with it than some of the measuring stick CDs I listed above.lowrider, I need to spend more time at the Steve Hoffman site. However... |