retiredaudioguy
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| And the biggest influence on sound quality is... One thing that we cannot fix is the quality of a recording, and I would, perhaps, argue that a good system might make a bad recording sound worse than a system with certain limitations (e.g. a soft system top end taming a hard recording). Also,... | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. Another oops: those posts should have been in response to the "How Loud" discussion. Getting old! | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. OOPS: Typo Heiliger gesang | |
| Volume level of commercial CD's. For each 6dB you are losing a bit of resolution, so, if you play Redbook 16 bit stuff do attenuate AFTER the DAC. I monitored my playing of Mahler 2 this afternoon. At my seat the range was from 44 dB to 94. Most passages were at about 60 to 6... | |
| Has it all been worth it? No regrets. I am a lover of music, though not a musician. The better the quality of the sound the closer I am to the performance. In rural VT I rarely get the chance to listen go to the concert or recital hall, and, indeed, the behavior of audi... | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? And my daughter has a good ear and a good system. VTL 85, Audio Physic Virgos, streaming and digital mainly and my old VPI TT. She is a sound designer and editor by profession, when she cannot get an acting gig. | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? And, do you know any female audiophiles? I was lucky (and then unlucky) as my late wife had hearing that was probably better than mine, and was all in on great sound. When I was trying to decide, in 2008, between the Esoteric X-03SE and the X-05... | |
| Are EL34 based amps more musical than KT series based ? Or it's purely a matter of design? The VAC 80/80 was KT88s, good sounding $2,500 amp but it chewed up KT88s, and it bias drifted. I had an MV52, that was sweet, perhaps beige like the front panel, but lacked any real punch. I also used a VAC Ren 30/30, gorgeous but it chewed up 30... | |
| How often do you upgrade turntable ? I have had my VPI Scoutmaster since 2005 or 2006, I do grease the bearing every few years. It replaced the earlier entry level VPI that I bought in the late 90s - my daughter now uses that, I had a Thorens before the VPI, before I entered the h... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? I think I was driven into the Audiophile passion by my passion for Music (classical). I spent the 70s and 80s listening to LPs an a reasonable 'HiFi' system - Ohm Walsh speakers and I forget the rest. I changed jobs in 1990 and one of my colleag... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? I have (approx.) 3,000 LPs, 2,500 CDs, and 1,500 Hi-Res downloads - and a subscription to Presto Music streaming. The streaming SQ never seems quite as good. Of those 7,000 albums there are a probably two hundred that I listen to most frequently... | |
| I often notice that people who have open reel decks and/or tube equipment are nicest Perhaps I have been around a long time. I built TRF leaky grid triode AM receivers when I was 9 or 10, with help from my dad. That was 1953 or 4. In the early 70's I had a Garrard 301, SME 3009, Shure V15, and a Quad 33 / 303 with a pair of the... | |
| Harbeth P3ESR question (tongue in cheek (I think) but maybe not) Just moved them so that they are in the preferred orientation. Do not hear any difference, but they DO look better with the name tag outside! | |
| Harbeth P3ESR question (tongue in cheek (I think) but maybe not) OMG. I have had them reversed for 15 years! I had never looked at the serial number. Now for critical listening. (Ha). I do think they are an amazing speaker in such a small package. | |
| Confused about adapter for RCA to BNC The potential problem is characteristic impedance. Digital signals at at a frequency where impedance mismatches will cause reflections so you may need to try different. @mitch2 LAYING, really, in public. I hope he was just lying. |