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| tube burn mcintosh pre-ampIs IME any tubes MUST burn in for at least 24 hours before you can be sure that what you're hearing is a fair representation of what the tubes' sound will be. For small tubes much change beyond 24 hours will be small (unless you're super anal) power ... | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Three jazz singers I think are overlooked - Rene Marie, Mary Stallings, and Laverne Butler all on the Maxjazz label. Excellent artists. | |
| How far and wide? NSMT speaker placement FWIW I have a 19.5 x 13.5 x 9 ft room. Speakers are 6 feet from wall behind them (short wall) and my listening position is in an equilateral triangle with speakers toed in with axis crossing just to the sides of my ears. Speakers are Silverline Bo... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? FWIW mattw73, the musicality must exist in the source. Then, if the audio set up is neutral, it should sound 'musical'. I find the discussion between wolfe_garcia and phusis interesting. IMHO you can optomize live performances and you can optomiz... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? sfcfran, Good luck finding an unbiased lexicographer or one that the majority would accept. I think ghdprentice is correct when he sez that high end audio is not for those uncomfortable with ambiguity. So far as I know Diogenes is still looking, a... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? immattewj I think colored is commonly used to mean something other than neutral. Unfortunately it is non specific and always requires amplification to be meaningful. It usually implies that there is a deficiency not just a deviation. Unlike ’neut... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Clearly from ghdprentice's post what we need is a new FAQ page titled ’audiophile euphemisms’. Then we could all be on the same page with audio reviewers and others who would seek to describe the sonics of their system. Now if we could just find a... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? immatthewj Well your illustration of using neutral as a noun with an modifier is certainly correct . My characterizing it otherwise was mistaken. But I do believe that when used as an adjective it becomes more acceptable to expect it be used in a... | |
| What's It All About? I designed my kitchen 30 years ago - its still intact, only the appliances have changed. I designed my house and listening room therein 30 years ago - only my audio components have changed - I'd like to say that they just wore out like my dish wa... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? immatthew, "But if neutral is absolute" What would you suggest in 'audio' is neutral and to what? Re 'almost neutral' would that be the same as being an 'almost whore'? Easy to say, tough to define. :-) | |
| Time/Process of Hooking up New Equipment If it is possible, I will try to slip the new component into my system and, the hard part, do not really listen to it for as long as possible. It needs time to break in. With an amp it is simple to do and the results in changes needed upstream (in... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? You seem to understand, yet you do not accept, that there is no consensus of the meaning, in audio at least, of ’neutral’. This post will not, I suspect, shed any great light on the subject. Neutral is a word which is absolute. It can only be ’ne... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects Using an XLR connection would be of no particular benefit unless both the pre-amp and amp were balanced. Just use I/Cs with regular RCA connectors. | |
| Record collecting versus hoarding I gave away all of my LP’s some time ago - when I couldn’t read the spines w/out a magnifying glass. LMAO! No longer have to worry about my floor collapsing either! Ah, peace of mind (I don’t have to worry about my analog system and its maintenanc... | |
| Parity RV, I erred! Its Get Happy. Sorry 'bout that. |