rufusfolk

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Audiophiles & music-have you got it wrong?
I think that a lot of the music I enjoyed as a teen and young adult was heard on inferior equipment. I enjoyed it and I got used to the way it sounded on that equipment. I remember that A Ertegun said he did the final mix of Aretha Franklin's musi... 
Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo
The others are great choices, but the best that I have seen is Richard Thompson live doing "Hard on Me" or "Shoot out the Lights". One of the few players equally good at acoustic or electric. Although for sheer joy Hound Dog Taylor was hard to bea... 
Is a dac better than an new cd palyer?
If you can find a good DAC used I think it would be the way to go. I got a Pass D1 and with any CD as a transport (even my old Sony ES) it sounds better than any of the new CD players I auditioned.