newbee
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| Where does your user name come from? i picked mine for lack of anything else more ironic that came to mind. i was new to internet chat sites but not to audio. it has been interesting to see how often people have thought i was a newbie to audio and acted accordingly. i think about cha... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? sugarbrie, if i admit to being a darwinist does that mean i can't pray to a god? do i get drummed out of the audiophile corp? i think its safer to try to be a darwinian revisionist while attending regular services. lord, its tuff being agnostic, p... | |
| Replacement Styli Cartridges he's trying to set you up for the purchase of a cartridge that he sells. other than that he's full of .......... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? inpepinnovations, i agree that people do tend to look to science for answers to questions they cannot understand, (or a god for that matter). i also agree that some people will hear a difference where no difference exists, i.e. your same wire exam... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? salut, i'm an easy sale for the proposition that people hear the same sound differenty. people can be predisposed to hear, or ignore, certain sounds. physically, the hearing apparatus of each individual is different and the brains interpertations ... | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? you guys know a lot more about cd and sacd than i do. i really know zip about sacd and i would for the sake of this question, at least, grant that it can produce a better than redbook sound. what i want to know is where is the software going to co... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? brad and danner, love the beer and water analogies. what is clear to me from your posts was that you could tell the differences, just that your preference were not what you expected. just shows that one could be pre-disposed to a certain taste, an... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? paulwp, i'm highly suspicious of anyone trying to save me money when i don't hire them to do so - i really think their pushing their own agenda. while i respect engineers and scientists, as well as physicists, doctors, whatever, remember that scie... | |
| What is a good intro to "Mahler"? got any tough requests :-D normally i would recommend starting with symphony #1 and progressing thru #9. however since you want "life" and "fire" in great sound and performance, i would suggest starting w/#2 the Resurection Symphony, its got it al... | |
| Have You Ever Put Your Golden Ears to the Test?? how exactly would you conduct a blind test? in my listening room? i have no problem detecting differences in any equipment i use, good or bad i'm not predisposed, but in an unfamilar environment there would be just too much new information to proc... | |
| Sonic Relativism? the flat earth society has been around for a long time and they don't confine their endeavors to audio. fortunately, because of the closed minded nature of their thinking they are not transparent and can be easily ignored. i believe in 1st amendme... | |
| Which components produce a convincing 3-D image? if your speakers can handle them a good tube amp can make a huge difference in creating soundstage. they only down side is that like a beautiful woman they require more maintenance than the ordinary (ss) ones. not for the faint of heart or the pic... | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? I-O Sounds like i can start putting money back into my daughters college fund, no need to save it for sacd now. by the way, thanks for the compliment. | |
| I can't really hear a big difference dennis, i own two units, a BAT and a cal alpha/delta combo. they are very different as is your sherwood and BAT. i think you have fairly described how a BAT can sound if you are using the sherwood for a "reference". i could do the same for my two ... | |
| Love for music shatter by highend equipment personally, for those who are really in this hobby because of their love of music, i believe its all part of the learning curve. a lot of attention is paid to sound reproduction until deminishing returns set in and the attention then goes back to ... |