onhwy61
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| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Here's an website for all those who lust after exotic cars. It's a different sort of perspective on driving fast. | |
| Remasters: what and why Originally mastering referred to the process of transferring music from analog tape to a metal disc format used for stamping out vinyl copies. It involved the sequencing of songs, the setting of volume levels, touches of equalization and some limi... | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? The empire strikes back! | |
| If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question As a point of reference, when I refer to SOTA products I mean all out assaults on sonic excellence with little regard to practicality. Almost by definition these products will be costly, although I'm not sure they have to be hideously expensive. T... | |
| Sell or keep my Turntable You basically haven't used the TT in 16 years. That says it all - SELL IT! | |
| If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question I'm glad to see that people are factoring in the room acoustics. Of course you'd have professionally designed custom sound room(s)! I'd go with the multiple systems. Actually, an all out assault on the SOTA would intimidate me. I'd probably sit, s... | |
| Got iPod, how to hook up? You're system is not listed so I can't tell what your standard of comparison is, but the D/A conversion stage of the iPod by audiophile standards is only adequate. The iPod is a great product, but it's really not intended to serve as a high qualit... | |
| Universal Digital Player With Digital Inputs? Aroc, that's exactly the use I'm looking for. All I want to do is access the D/A of the universal player with an external digital source. | |
| Who's the Cadillac of Hi-End Audio? Car & Driver recently compared six luxury sedans (Jaguar XJ6, MB S430, Lexus LS430, Audi A8, VW Phaeton and BMW 745). They highly rated all of the vehicles as great cars to own and drive, but the Lexus nosed out the Jag for top honors. Except ... | |
| The obsession, the trees. The music, the forest. I would think that futzing with the VTA on every disc would distract from the enjoyment of listening to music, but I'm sure it also improves the sound quality. It takes all kinds. | |
| Mapleshade Samson rack: Opinions? I got a 5 shelf Samson about 3 months ago and couldn't be happier. Previously I had used a Target (glass and steel) and a Roomtunes (steel rods and particle board) racks and the Mapleshade is a definite step up for either. Sean is right in that th... | |
| Stereo imaging. How is it done? There are two ways to make a stereo image. The simplest is to use two microphones (or a single stereo mic), place them appropriately and record. This technique will capture whatever L/R and depth information present in the recording space. The mor... | |
| Who's the Cadillac of Hi-End Audio? A number of people have mentioned how certain cars offer a certain excitement when driven. Is this driving excitement analogous to what some audiophiles call musicality? There may not be a logical connection, but the language people are using is s... | |
| How dose your plinth sound? I would think that the best plinths would be be a high mass design composed of multiple materials with each having different vibration dampening characteristics. I don't know this for a fact, but such constrained layer designs work very well in lo... | |
| Who's the Cadillac of Hi-End Audio? It's good to know that the second largest economy in the world doesn't have a good source of steel, but then again in my original post I did ask for people to freely express their biases. |