onhwy61
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| Backwall wall behind my back treatment. If you are within inches of the rear wall you should leave it untreated. Your brain cannot tell he difference between the direct and reflected sound if the wave path distances are virtually the same. | |
| Using Bad Recording to Evaluate a System Really good, well balanced systems shouldn't make a poorly recorded albums sound unlistenable, they should just expose them as over EQed, heavily compressed, noisy, no soundstage, obviously faked reverb, sloppily edited, etc. It should show the fl... | |
| Preamps ... no bass or treble control? Morbius, all active circuitry in some way distorts a signal passing through it, but there are orders of magnitude of distortion. DSP opens up a wide range of filters that practically speaking are not available in analog. My understanding is that s... | |
| Preamps ... no bass or treble control? Most audiophiles don't use tone controls out of ignorance. Unless your music collection is comprised of perfectly recorded music, then at some point you'd be better off with some form of tone controls. Tone controls shouldn't be used to correct sy... | |
| 4 must have hours of baby boomer music? If you have cable TV most systems have music "stations" with a 60s or 70s niche. | |
| I finally bought a record cleaning machine $ The fact is, if you are a serious practicing audiophile with a reference level system, you have to have large amounts of disposable income. Additionally, if your software collection is commensurate with your equipment, then you have a small fortun... | |
| I finally bought a record cleaning machine $ It's been my experience that the 16.5 is very critical about the angle of the pick up brush. It seems to leave a lot of gunk behind if not adjusted just so. The gunk ends up on the stylus which is definitely not good. I'd rather run the vacuum too... | |
| "This Latest Digital Amp Is Great " Unless you are someone who just "knows" what's technologically the best, I don't think what inside an amp should be of much concern to a listener. If it sounds good, then it is a good amp whether it's digital, tube, single-ended, ambidextrous or s... | |
| The Mechanics of WAF It's called willful ignorance, it's part of the gambler side of being an audiophile. Despite what you know in your heart, you think if you just get those speakers in the house a miraculous transformation will overcome your spouse. She'll suddenly ... | |
| What is the best hard drive based player? I thought you were referring to a Mac computer system. | |
| What is the best hard drive based player? Why no screen? The software interface for a hard drive system is a combo database/spreadsheet. It really inhibits the usefulness, particularlly when you store a large number of CDs, to not have at least a 12" monitor screen. One of the great benef... | |
| The most emotional amp out there? For those who think an amplifier can be emotional, then can a capacitor, a speaker binding post or amp stand also be emotional? It sounds silly to me if you say yes.If you can't connect to truly great music when played back on lo-fi equipment, the... | |
| Fats Domino missing Thousands dead, 100,000s homeless and you guys make jokes. You should be ashamed of yourselves. | |
| The most emotional amp out there? I agree with Tripper. Since when did a pile of glass, silicon and wire get a soul. There ain't no ghost in that machine! | |
| Whats the best sampling for A do D to CD Keis, stay away from anything but 16/44 unless you have access to high quality sample rate conversion/bit reduction equipment.Your link between iTunes and portable/mid-fi devices is erroneous. It is very easy to distinguish between analog to digit... |