realthing
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| Done buying new vinyl @bdp24: Do you have numbers? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's far closer to 'all' than to 'none' (or even 'some'). | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement My 2c from someone who did what you’re doing 8 years ago. I had last built a system in the 80s and it still works fine. But I decided to see what was around after 25 years of no spare time, now having a nice new very large room (actually a heated ... | |
| Done buying new vinyl I can't get past the thought that with all(?) modern source material being digitally recorded/mastered, a record factory and turntable make one heck of a clunky DAC. | |
| Done buying new vinyl New vinyl probably suffers from various effects, some mentioned already. LPs from the advent of RIAA-curved hi-fis in the mid 50s were made of good vinyl and recorded/pressed by companies that had great experience. Things got better all the way in... | |
| Recordings with incredible effects or imaging that we may not know about Circa 1999 I had a 27" picture tube tv mounted in a cabinet (GE I think). Whenever I put (e.g.) a football game on I could distinctly hear the higher frequency components of crowd noise coming from spots far outside the span of the tv set with its... | |
| Most satisfying system change in 2017? My system comprises many DSPs distrubuted between two computers, one a source-plus-DSPs front end, the second the 'active crossover' for a 7-way system (pair of 3-ways with single sub). Changes are numerous partly because of this; a pair of pcie s... | |
| Switching to solid state amp? Made the switch 45 years ago with a Sony TA-3200F. Still have it, though regulated to multiamp duty on my 'B' setup. Never had a problem, sounds fabulous. In the heyday of HH Scott, Marantz, Mac etc. it was heralded by all my friends as having the... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? Pioneer SC-700 preamp and Sony TA-3200F power amp, both bought in 1973, both still in operation. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? A look at some of the recently posted ancient Lansing and Altec advertising literature on audioheritage tells a good story. The answer is of course yes, things have advanced, but the quantum leaps took place then. Today's biggest advantage is in a... | |
| Will preamp manufacturers tell you if the model is phase inverse? A preamp that inverts simply outputs the negative of what's fed into it (the "inverse" wave). It won't harm anything.That's why "inversion" is one thing and "phase" another. The phase of a signal is merely the delay associated with it. IIR (standa... | |
| Will preamp manufacturers tell you if the model is phase inverse? As a guy who's concerned with phase perhaps more than most, maybe I can offer some overblown advice.First, never assume anything. The only way to check phase along the electrical path is with a signal generator and a scope, and the only worthwhile... | |
| Disappointed w/ Klipsch Heresy III. Now what? You should remember that the Heresy was designed (I'm guessing reluctantly) as a small 'center channel' for Klipschorns, which were designed in the monaural era and happily ate a room corner. The stereo age was a disaster for the behemoths as many... | |
| Can you hear the difference? I tried ripping a cd using foobar2000 to FLAC and to Vorbis (medium compression). I could hear the difference easily in the HF detail. In fact, Vorbis medium and Vorbis low compression (high quality) were differentiable also. Vorbis high quality w... | |
| What sounds best: Vinyl or CDs It is a hopeless argument but always an interesting discussion. Having myself listened to nothing but analog (vinyl, tape, even a few pre-RIAA shellac 78s) for the first 2/3 or so of my life, I recall that the advent of CDs was a revelation of cla... | |
| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection I do everything with foobar, including using it as nothing but a DSP stack for my back-end 'crossover PC', and as a source (plus some DSP) on the front-end machine (I use 2 machines since the soundcard has to be close to the speaker array which is... |