rvpiano
Responses from rvpiano
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old At 85 (86 in a couple of weeks,) I think my mental faculties are still pretty sharp, but my parts are all wearing out. | |
| CD's or Vinyl? To be honest CDs are more detailed, vivid and vibrant. But records have more textural integrity on my system. | |
| What do you care about in this hobby? Music first. The rest will take care of itself. | |
| Popping sound I finally switched right and left tubes in the preamp and the popping seems to have gone away all together. Maybe just toggling them was all that was needed. Thanks to all of you who suggested this. | |
| Popping sound Yes, GPT was extremely helpful to me in many ways. Plus it referred to my setup thusly: “Strengths: Reference-level neutrality, detail, and low jitter.” Good for the ego! | |
| Popping sound The way my system is set up and my physical condition it’s just about impossible to access things such as speaker leads. I can swap tubes out though. If that doesn’t work I’ll live with it. | |
| Popping sound Thanks for all the responses. | |
| Validation @jmalen123 Thats the best validation! | |
| Validation @audphile1 My latest acquisition is the Aurender N200 streamer. Changed my listening habits. I still have the Benchmark DAC. | |
| Concentration Yes, I agree. Another gratifying form of listening is letting the music just drift over you. It’s a different form of enjoyment from intense listening. | |
| Concentration @devinplombier “classical is perhaps the only music genre that periodically faces calls to be either removed from the curricula of public universities or to have public subsidy of its study and performance curtailed or ended” I don’t know wher... | |
| Concentration @hilde45 Certainly we listen to the sound and the music at the same time. The point is how much you have to concentrate on the music. In classical it’s more essential to do so. | |
| Concentration @audphile1 when your in Carnegie Hall of course you’re listening to both. But when you’re home and listening to your stereo you’re indulging a hobby which involves sound for sound’s sake. Quite different from a Carnegie Hall experience. | |
| Concentration @hilde45 what do you think of my observation of the difference between classical music listening and other types of music regarding this dichotomy? | |
| Concentration One other factor is relevant here. In one way we’re talking about apples and oranges. As I’ve said, those who listen to classical music generally have to concentrate a little more on to what is going on in the music. I believe that rock, pop an... |