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| VINYL SUCKS! My 2c: In my system, it sounds "digital" when the music was recorded in digital, and it does not matter whether it's on a CD, it's streamed or it was pressed onto a vinyl. It sounds "analogue" when it was recorded on a tape - regardless if it's an... | |
| Classical Top Five For top 5 I would include the five who had the greatest effect on the musicians who followed after them. If you take out any of my five recommendations, most likely every single 20th century classical writers output would be impacted.The one who s... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? I know about the dentist chair scenario... experienced it with a Wilson Chronosonic/ D'Agostino / & room DSP'd. At the listening spot everything was razor sharp at the exact dead center in the sweetest spot. After a while I wanted to relax, an... | |
| The Absolute Sound vs Pleasing Sound @russ69: Great attitude! Indeed, Absolute sound is an illusion, for all recording techniques are flawed, and each technique distorts in a different way, so there cannot be an absolute when everything is relative...For me, music reproduction is all... | |
| Full circle and thinking about speakers Listen to @millercarbon, he has great advice. I have an easy task, just echo what he said... I also have the 92dB cutoff, and arrived there arbitrarily by myself. Go lower, and your amp selection to drive those sleepy buggers gets reduced, so you ... | |
| Help my analog sound as good as my streaming Nowdays the audiofile qualities (if not the musicality) of entry level digital has improved a lot. On the other hand, a good vinyl system starts at a relatively much higher price point. While digital is plug and pray, with analogue you need a lot ... | |
| Vinyl cleaning - Ultrasonic vs. Walker products I have been using a Nitty Gritty for ages, and it is a must when you have second hand vinyl. The VPI and other record cleaners which use a cleaning solution and vacuum combinations do the same thing as the basic Nitty Gritty does, just with more c... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp I'd recommend the new Hagerman Trumpet. It has a utilitarian look, but the content is worth gold. Jim improved the sound on the old Trumpet (Stereophile Class A), this is the 3rd generation version, and decreased the price a LOT at the same time. ... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music You are in for a great adventure! The are some caveats: performance quality and recording quality rarely match up. You can find most great performances in mediocre quality, and the best quality recordings often have material that (as many say) sho... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elvis - I got lucky. RCA Camden, mono.The King is back! | |
| Best cost no object tube phono This solution is not cost no object (cost always matters;). It is a non-plus ultra scenario for realistic people. Perhaps the best designed phono stage that had more thought put into it than money-oriented no object designs. Adding the SUT will ju... | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? With one driver we do not have any phase, timing and tonal discrepancy issues that plague multi-driver systems. There are no obscured bands in the midrange, hence there is a possibility to integrate the most sensitive midrange better to the room a... | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? Indeed, single driver sound is highly subjective, and it's also extremely dependent on the actual build. Among my audio friends' circles we have several single driver speakers which are phenomenal speakers. Bruce Edgar's Lowther horn comes to my m... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Thank you clearthinker for your welcome! I agree with your perception, equipment matching is the essence of a good system. Essentially, any amplifier topology or speakers design can bring us to musical bliss when every element is in perfect synerg... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Clearthinker, good questions, great thread!You brought up all the eternal questions in audio - high power vs low power and high vs low efficiency, and of course, cost issues. Looking at the average audio product, 1 in 10 sounds very good, while th... |