onhwy61
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| Does it come down to the mastering quality only?? If I may make a strained analogy -- the original recording mix is the meal a chef in a quality restaurant prepares and mastering is the overall restaurant experience for the diner. Mastering cannot take a poorly prepared meal and make it taste wo... | |
| Help ! The easiest and least expensive route is to cull your CD collection. Get rid of the CDs you don't actually listen to.You should also consider a streaming service.Transferring your collection to hard drive storage is not really hard, but it is not... | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? Despite faults in our education system people still have ready access to the most expressive instrument ever, the human voice. Young people still are singing? | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? A recurring theme in this thread is old people denigrating young people. I guess aging doesn't guarantee wisdom. There's a reason Pete T. wrote "I hope I die before I get old". | |
| Quick and free fuse tweak Does the tape really have to be cream colored? | |
| What’s really hurting the audio hobby? Audiophiles are the ones hurting the audio hobby. Listening to music is supposed to be fun. Audiophiles have turned this fun activity into a life long struggle, a journey, with hard won knowledge and years of frustration evidenced by endless equ... | |
| RIP Joao Gilberto aka "The Legend". In 64/65 he was as big as the Beatles worldwide. | |
| Best cheapo Cartridge Why not retip the Jubilee? I believe Soundsmith can do it for around $500. It's also possible that the Jubilee, as is, with 1,500 hours on it may still sound better than some of the models you're considering. | |
| Spica Angelus Owned the Angelus back around 1990 and thought they were wonderful. Their limitation was that they could not play real loud and they did not have deep bass. I'd be very wary of using them with a high power amplifier since they woofer is easily d... | |
| The Day the Music Burned Here's a list of the effected artist according to UMG:38 Special50 CentColonel AbramsJohnny AceBryan AdamsNat AdderleyAerosmithRhett AkinsManny AlbamLorez AlexandriaGary AllanRed AllenSteve AllenThe Ames BrothersGene AmmonsBill AndersonJimmy Ander... | |
| Blind fold hearing test Not a problem. If it was a solid state amp I could probably tell you, not just the brand and model of the power transistor used, but also the factory and batch run. Not everyone can do it, but I can. It's my superpower. | |
| DBA for REL’s? Wait until you can get a dedicated listening room. Why waste effort on what you know will be a half measure? | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! Yo Prof, it's Tony! Toni! Toné!. Try to get it right next time. | |
| Solar storm 6-12 and 13 Me and Igor are going to put up antennae and see if we can revive Dr. F's creature. Wish us luck. | |
| Recordings by Elton John, Nirvana and Thousands More Lost in Fire Thanks for the article. Good reporting by a truly great newspaper.Just a reminder, here's one of the NYT's best:https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/sept-11-reckoning/portraits-of-grief.html... |