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| Who's absorbing the cost? Agreed with JMcGrogan2. Ultimately the consumer pays for costs as they are passed down. So perhaps the record store will replace the defective product but will eventually raise prices to cover refunds/exchanges. Kind of like how politicians lik... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog I don't think you are lost. I have found very very few remasters that sound as good as the original, including those dreadful half-speed remasterings. There has been endless speculation on why this is, but IMO the problem lies not only with dete... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? I agree with the others that your problem probably lies elsewhere. I have used the phono stage in my previous CAT preamp, a Michael Yee (designer of the Musical Surroundings Phenomena) Audio solid-state phono stage, an Aesthetix Rhea (very import... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog Sounds like MoFi will be advancing the state of the art with this new mastering system. Now if they just don't ruin them like they have with all of their other titles by electronically equalizing them and using a narrow groove width, along with w... | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? I stand corrected. My OTL amps were indeed produced by Fourier Components in the late 1990s. BTW, to my knowledge, Atma-Sphere is one of the few, if only, OTL amp companies to survive for any length of time. Probably a testament to their reliab... | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? Back in my earlier and more adventurous days I bought a pair of Fourier Systems Panthere monoblocks, those with 8 of the Russian military triode 6C33CB tubes in each chassis. They were based on the original Futterman design and were different tha... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz I read the article, thanks Romazicon, and it supports exactly what I have found in adding MC-0.5s to my system. While adding them to the unused outlets of my URH power conditioner improves the sound, it makes a bigger difference when adding them ... | |
| Why do I keep torturing myself with remasters? For LPs, got to discogs.com or wikipedia, find the original record company, get an original copy of the LP from the country of the original record company. Look for the lowest matrix number in the deadwax, i.e. 1A. If you find a stamp or writing... | |
| Anyone use a subwoofer system with YG Carmel I heard a couple of pairs of the YG Carmels at the Newport Beach Show and was very impressed at the coherence and immediacy of these speakers, approaching what I like about single-driver speakers. I think YG did a great job balancing bass respons... | |
| THE most sonically dissappointing (lp) you own of great music? I'll tell you what category of LP's are dynamically compressed. Half-speed masters. What a total rip-off they are. When I was young and dumb (I am now old and dumb) I collected these things basically without listening to them, and when my rig i... | |
| Anyone use a subwoofer system with YG Carmel What I have found is that the lower the crossover point, the better the integration between the sub and satellite speakers. This probably makes sense since the lower the frequency, the more the frequency takes on a 4 pi wavefront and the more dif... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Ddraudt, with the changes I heard in my system when upgrading from Ultimate to Ultimate Reference speaker cables, I can only imagine going from UR to Pro. Probably a good thing I can't afford them as my wife would never get me out of the listenin... | |
| THE most sonically dissappointing (lp) you own of great music? Has to be Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. The all-time worst recording of otherwise great music, probably due to being overdubbed countless times. I have tried probably 20 different versions of this record and apparently it is trying to put lip... | |
| Anyone use a subwoofer system with YG Carmel I don't understand why so many hate subwoofers. Since bass is largely a room pressurization/depressurization effect, few speakers can compete with a subwoofer in this regard. I have a JL Audio F113 subwoofer, and yes, it did take a little work t... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Yep, HFC prices are not for the weak and faint-hearted. Once you hear what they can do you will of course think they are worth it. The XLR's I believe have 3 signal conductors so that might explain the price increase over unbalanced cables.On ano... |