onhwy61
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| Do Audiophiles really like music? Despite having very good equipment and considering myself an audiophile, I don't think there is a direct link between the quality of the playback equipment and my enjoyment in listening to music. Once you get past your basic boombox quality system... | |
| Ergonomics of Classic Recording Studio Gear Primitive doesn't mean it wasn't capable of excellent sound. DSOTM was recorded on multitrack analog tape and to make edits the engineers took a razor blade to cut and splice the tape. Compared to modern digital audio workstation where you can ele... | |
| Ergonomics of Classic Recording Studio Gear Here's a link to a website featuring photos of classic 24 track recorders. Click on the links on the left side of the page under "information" to see photos of mic preamps, compressors, mixers etc.Viridian is right. By today's standards DSOTM was ... | |
| How is my loading affecting my sound? The last few paragraphs on the Bent page regarding the effects are generic and apply to both active and transformer stages. | |
| How is my loading affecting my sound? Here's some theory from Bent Audio. In short, too high a value will bring up the top end, too low a value will do the reverse. | |
| Why not use a PC style UPS? They generate large amounts of electric noise. They are typically designed as surge protections and UPS, not power conditioners. | |
| NHT 3.3s -- too big for my room? Can't see why they won't work if you set them up as recommended. Your room is plenty big. | |
| DK Design Group vs. Boulder I just spent the last few years of my life listening to every high end amplifier ever made. The list includes some custom made products that absolutely blew away the Boulder, but I've yet to hear anything that approaches the sonic purity, prodigio... | |
| Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please It would apply to your entire iTunes library, but it can be toggled on/off as you see fit. | |
| Simple Digital Music Server - Opinions Please If you go to iTune preferences you can play with the cross fade setting to tie songs together without a gap. It may effect sound quality. | |
| Help Cartridge too heavy Need to add counterweig My mistake. | |
| Help Cartridge too heavy Need to add counterweig Go to the hard store and get black electrical tape. Wrap tape around tonearm near headshell. By trail and error you should be able to wrap enough tape to bring the overall balance into the counterweight's range. | |
| Congested sound - more power or resolution? Name specific recordings where you have this problem. It could be that there are problems with the recordings themselves. It's not unheard of for guitar tracks to be recorded clean and distortion/grunge added later via various effects processors a... | |
| Best color s to paint dedicated listening room Color effects mood and temperament. There are many studies to this effect. Search them out and pick colors to suite your music listening mood. | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? Tbg, now that you've had your unit for a while, is the RealityCheck still one of the greatest advances in the past 40 years of music reproduction. |