newton_john
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| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS This subject has been rattling around my brain all day. It occurred to me that the preference of many for vinyl over streaming/CDs gives us a steer towards there being more to assessing sound quality than just measurements. By all objective met... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @acman3 @mclinnguy Thank you for your kind comments. Although she was quite ill last year, she’s now relatively well thanks to ongoing targeted therapy. On the bright side, she had 17 years in remission to do amazing things and see her boys grow u... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @mclinnguy 🤣 To my embarrassment, my wife has never been shy about sharing that statistic. Sadly, it’s breast cancer she has in common with ONJ not her name. I’m John from Newton. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @acman3 I meant identify her by the numbers alone - being interested in that way didn’t come into it. | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS At the risk of sounding sexist, I wonder if one of these measurement guys could pick my wife out of crowd using her vital statistics of 36-27–38* alone. *Those numbers there are a total guess on my part. I’ve no idea what her actual vital statist... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to compare Linn’s Next Generation DSM/3 streamer (2020/21 variant) and Klimax Organik Exaktbox DACs (2021) with previous models, the Klimax DSM/1 (2014) and Klimax Katalyst Exaktbox (2... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT @carlsbad2 You say that "a low to mid level streamer achieves a higher percentage of high level performance than a low to mid level DAC does." Good luck trying to apply a quantitative concept like percentage to the qualitative differences between... | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? @calvinj That's great. My turntable has been out of action this weekend, so I have been streaming for the first time in a while. Listened to some Jazz Fusion albums. They sounded great. I didn't miss vinyl at all. I am wondering if it's all dow... | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? @calvinj Over the decades, my preference has swung between vinyl and CD/digital at least a couple of times. I tried to ditch vinyl altogether five years ago. Now, I am back into it again. Ironically, it was improvements on the the digital side t... | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? I assembled what I thought was the perfect digital system as the culmination of nearly half a century in this wonderful hobby from vinyl to CD to digital files to streaming. There were many twists and turns along the way, but it took the reintrodu... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? Not played CDs directly since 2007. Rarely even rip one these days. | |
| How does sound influence your appreciation? I think it’s true that better sound quality helps with getting into unfamiliar music and genres as has been said already. Arguably, that’s more important than giving fresh perspectives on old favourites. Is it really that big a deal to hear parts... | |
| Subwoofers are a superlative room treatment @orthomead No offence intended, but your fairly long OP would have been much easier to read and understand, if you’d broken it up into meaningful paragraphs. You’ve made it hard for the reader to follow your arguments. | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? Yes, I regretted selling my LP12 turntable five years ago. It wasn’t too much of problem because I was able to buy another better one for not a massive amount more money. The bad part of it was that I also sold my records. I wish I could buy them ... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. I have a daughter in her mid thirties snd two sons in their twenties. None of them are audiophiles as such, but all three buy and listen to vinyl. As has been hinted at above, it’s a question of only older people being able to afford expensive ge... |