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| What defines mid-fi versus high-end? 'Mid-Fi' is an arbitrary marketing term thrown about loosely by those with something to gain by creating artificial barriers to entry. And painting products, even entire brands with that brush, they hope to justify there own products and brands ex... | |
| Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation? Common Hardon (Harman Kardon) Pee-in-Ear (Pioneer) Kornwood (Kenwood) Gerbils (JBL) Adverbs (Advent) Thorns (Thorens) Turdberg (Tandberg) | |
| Looking for an integrated amp to replace my Cayin A-50T Marantz PM7000N. All the analog and digital connectivity you could ask for, voice control if you wish, unflappable 60/80 w/Ch and impeccable reviews. I've also owned bone for over a year, and simply can't find a reason to upgrade, unless I wanted ... | |
| Best Rock Drummers There were no great rock drummers before Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, and Keith Moon. Everyone, talented though they may be, who came after built on what they created. "If I have seen further than others it is because I stood on the shoulders of Gi... | |
| Favorite religious song "Spirit In The Sky" by Norman Greenbaum. Also the best fuzz guitar lick of all time. "Many Rivers To Cross" Also from "The Harder They Come" soundtrack and the best reggae album of all time. "Ave Maria" by Aaron Neville. If you don't hear the vo... | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I have a Panasonic DP UP820. One step down from the 900, it's half the price and the differences are mostly in the case, not the performance. Very satisfied - 4K discs lload quickly and have no playback issues I can tell on my 110" screen. | |
| After years of separates, I'm going integrated. Anyone else do the same? My first amp was a Marantz 1060 that I bought in 1972. After that I had separates from HK, McIntosh, Apt, Luxman, Adcom and several more until last year. Moving into a new house the clutter of separates had a SAF of 0.00. And while the audiophile ... | |
| Kef LS50 Unlikely that an amp change will make a substantial or fundamental change. But if you're sensing something is missing consider acoustical treatment for your room. That can make a staggering improvement in your listening experience for a relatively... | |
| Standmount speaker recommendations for vintage amp KEF LS50 is an obvious recommendation, but it may be too demanding of signal chain and source material for some. In that case, the KEF R3 is a little easier to live with, has better bass extension but still has the precision that comes from the Un... | |
| I want to move from Rega Planar 6 help me to pick a new turntable I'm all in for the VPI because of the adjustability of the arm and the upgrade path. The unipvot arm takes some getting used to when handling, but the new VPIs all have gimballed arms, making that issue moot. I like my unipivot arm, and have no i... | |
| switching to stand mount speakers I own both MMGs and (non-Meta) LS50s. I won't go into the MMGs, you already own them. LS50s are monitors. They are very revealing. And not very forgiving of bad source material. They will never sound as 'big' as MMGs, but no stand mount speaker ca... | |
| Something is amiss Nearfield simply means listening in an environment where the direct sound is at a higher level than the reflected sound. In acoustical terms, critical distance is that point where the direct sound level equals the reflected sound (or reverberant f... | |
| Interesting comment on Bose Speakers..... Then again I've never heard a Bose system that made we want to stay in the room, either. | |
| Rotel RA-1592 MK II or something else to deliver around 200W to B&W towers around $3000? I am surprised no one has mentioned NAD. The C388 is 150w/Ch with typical NAD 3+dB of headroom. At well under $2,000 it's well-reviewed and a real value. | |
| Let me explain something to you jive turkeys. Consider this - nobody thinks of the New York Philharmonic as a cover band. And nobody has out-Bached, Beethovened, or Mozarted those guys in over 200 years of trying. And we're still listening in amazement to what they created in a pretty short p... |