rcm1203
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| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? "This person is not an audiophile. He enjoys music like the rest of us, but that is a different subject." Normally I would be offended by such an ambiguous statement, but this is a friendly thread and all opinions are welcome. | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? To me, surgically dissecting each track and obsessing about instrument placement isn't enjoyment, it's an OCD vampire sucking all the enjoyment out of music and probably life in general. I listen to music for pure enjoyment. I know the way I like ... | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature My PrimaLuna amp won't allow me to switch between triode and ultra-linear until the tubes are sufficiently warmed, and my Vincent hybrid preamp has a flashing red LED in the volume knob that goes out when it's ready to play. If those time spans ar... | |
| Tube Rollers! Which has more impact to your sound- Rectifier or Power (and why)? On my tube amps, I've always gotten the most noticeable changes rolling the input gain tubes. Power tubes basically boost whatever is fed to them, but they do have their own voice as well and can also bring some change, most usually in the lower r... | |
| Happy Audiophile Day! Also known as "Look at the mansion and exotic car collection I could have had if I hadn't become and audiophile day"! Truth be known, if I got a do over I wouldn't change a thing. It's a great way to stay middle class. | |
| Help and opinions needed on pre-amp situation It only took me 50+ years and who knows how many dollars to arrive at a system that I am 100% happy with. The one truism about our hobby is that it is not static (pun intended). We are constantly questing for that next thing that will elevate our ... | |
| I saw the back of an integrated and it depressed me. The only ’digital’ component in my system is my Sony HAPZ1ES music server, and it has analog outputs! I don’t stream any music and I don’t use ’clouds’ to store any content. The only other source player in my system is a Technics SL1500C TT. My a... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Retired maintenance technician for the USPS. I worked on the various mail processing machines used to sort mail. I invested during my entire career in the federal version of a 401K called the Thrift Savings Program, so I retired with a nice nest e... | |
| Best Full-Function Preamplifier The McIntosh C49 is a very capable preamp with excellent and wide parameter separate MM and MC phono inputs and an upgradeable DAC. You even get tone controls that are digital and by-passable, so no pots or switches in the music stream. All of the... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. In the general era most of these songs are falling in, the definition of 'pop' is a good question. I tend to attribute four basic genre styles to that period. Hard rock was starting to come of age with songs like Steppenwolf's 'Born To Be Wild', a... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Even though I'm in the "classic vinyl' age group with the majority of posters on this thread, I'm going to go a little more recent and say Michael Morales "Who Do You Give Your Love To?", and Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" both stand... |