ossicle2brain
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| surface noise reduction Yeah it doesn't take much dirt on the stylus to make things noisy. I've had that happen to me also. I've also noticed that on at least a couple of pieces of modern music they are adding surface static noise as a production method. Adds to the ... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Agreed Drew. The one in my Samsung phone is surprisingly good! I can hear heads exploding. Direct wired into the preamp playing Spotify it sounds great. As good or better than any of 5 different lower end dacs up to 600$ that I’ve tried. Includ... | |
| Female vocals Our mother's voice was the first sound we heard. We could hear it in the womb. | |
| Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression Well, there is vinyl and then there is vinyl. Always has been. But of all my recent buys of both old and new music, some sound like a bumpy noisy thing with no range and can be even off center (but clear or colored WOOO!!!) and the others - usual... | |
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. Yeah it’s about the sound. It can be bare speakers hung in trees powered by a car deck. If you say, "wow, that sounds cool", that’s it. That's audiophilia. Some people don't notice or care as much or at all. Fortunately, or unfortunately, we do. | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? I never thought about it before. Do you like hyper realist art or abstract expressionism? I suspect most people fall somewhere in the middle. That’s my impressionism. Personally, I like Magic Realism. Oh sorry, we are talking about audio aren’t... | |
| I Am Not an Audio Snob Isn't it a rule that if you have an equalizer then you can't be an audio snob? | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? ^ "I’m a dealer for Infigo audio." I appreciate the honesty. | |
| Vinyl Lovers My Zerostat works great. To determine the static charge of a record hang a piece of toilet paper down off of something close to your turntable. Static charge is easily seen when the paper is attracted to the album. Sometimes it practically glue... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Is there some magical difference that occurs to the electricity after it comes out of the wall? Maybe that's the "special" electricity. All the miles of electricity before the wall outlet doesn't matter. We'll fix it at that last six feet be... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. Does a unmodulated groove or blank record make noise? Yes. It makes far more noise than any bearings on a decent turntable. In fact sounds like bearing noise. Or the ocean. The vinyl is never perfect. Then, is the album perfectly concentric? Is th... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. Turntables have no sound. If they do there is something wrong with it. If the definition of "turntable" includes the tone arm and cartridge then yes. To be fair I think that is what the OP is talking about and I’m just being argumentative as usual... | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. So assuming a turntable has low noise and decent speed control, how can it sound any different than another with similarly low noise and speed control? Using the same tonearms and carts of course. | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. No such thing. It's an old wive's tale. Or worse an audiomyth. Turntables don't matter much. It's the cartridge. and the tonearm. Try a different cartridge. Or tonearm. Turntable sound might be the biggest money-hole crock in all of aud... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... Well no way I'm spending that much on something that just does ones and zeros so I'm going over to ASR and feel better. |