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| CDs Vs LPs @cleeds said: Both CD and LP are capable of extraordinary performance. And at their best, they sound very much more alike than different. Signal to Noise Ratio: LP 50db, CD 90dbFrequency Response: LP 20-20kHz, CD 20-22kHz (a tie)Total Harmonic Dis... | |
| CDs Vs LPs @geoffkait said: The data that’s on the CD is not being 100% retrieved during playback. Not by a long shot. Sorry to be the bearer of bad newsIt would be refreshing if, just once, you would back up your assertions with some corroborating evidence.... | |
| CDs Vs LPs @sleepwalker65 said: the fact is that while the data is still represented as a staircase, (lollipop diagram if you prefer), the nature of sampling means that some information is left out during digitizing and then on playback, it is artificially s... | |
| CDs Vs LPs You are either joking, or perhaps have just become accustomed to compressionI am not joking. Check out any recording from SF Symphony Media, or AIX records, or Chesky Records, or ECM, or BIS, and I could go on and on and on. Almost no classical mu... | |
| CDs Vs LPs In fact, the opposite is the case. As a consequence of the loudness wars, a CD is typically more compressed than its LP counterpart.Most Jazz and all Classical have never joined the loudness wars. | |
| Is pre-amp getting killed? Who said anything about a passive preamp? | |
| Is pre-amp getting killed? With a properly designed DAC there is really no need for a pre-amp unlesss you need a phono stage, or have a lot of source devices. My DAC has multiple digital inputs and a single analog input. The output of the DAC is touted directly to the ampli... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Bad Plus - These Are the VistasThanks to @ghosthouse for the introduction to a Bad Plus album I hadn’t heard. Thanks to Tidal for enabling me to listen to it. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Arvo Pärt: Fratres, Gidon Kramer and Keith Jarret. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Daniel Barenboim, "On My New Piano"Thank you @twoleftears for posting the only Classical entry in the last two pages, and for posting such a good recording. The low end on that piano is impressive. I loved the Beethoven. | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century I wouldn’t call Shostakovich’s Trio #2 for Violin, Cello, and Piano, a piece for piano, but it is certainly one of the great masterpieces of the 20th Century. | |
| Siegfried Linkwitz Passes His website is a font of knowledge. I hope it stays around. | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? I didn’t start at the bottom (but all of this gear was 2nd hand)1968Dual 1019 turntable with a Shure cartridge Hadley 621 Preamp (Serial # 0001 !)Sony TA-3120 amplifierRectilinear III highboy speakers | |
| Whats playing on your system today? J. S. Bach Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord Gould and LaredoGood. | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? Only one way to know I wonder if I pick up this cast iron pan that has been in the 400° oven, if it will burn me? Only one way to know. |