shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming This sounds like you are running into a limitation of your DAC or Chromecast. Streaming of Redbook should be the same as CD if the devices you use are working optimally and settings are for bit perfect reproduction, after all it is the same file. | |
| Your Favorite Holiday Album Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt | |
| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... @tomic601 Agreed that the recording is the limitation. Microphones are actually very good. The challenge is microphone placement! Drums sound different with less than a cm of microphone movement in any direction. Generally high overheads and a mix... | |
| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... Yes. Large ATC do, However, few if any recordings sound like being close to someone practicing on a live snare in a domestic setting. Recordings are almost always compressed - especially snare. Live music is almost always more dynamic.Try Sheffiel... | |
| Greatest debut album Tears for Fears The HurtingWho would have thought an album about personal family psychological problems and dysfunctions could become a huge hit? | |
| PS Direct Stream latest firmware, "Snowmass" Does Snowmass fix the clicks and pops between tracks of different format or sample rate? Or does it try to hide the problem by lowering volume? | |
| PS Direct Stream latest firmware, "Snowmass" Fantastic fix. Sounds like they have finally fully addressed the low frequency performance issues identified by JA in Stereophile’s review. It has taken several firmware upgrades.Is it available for DS Junior? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Sue Foley - The Ice QueenThis is an amazing album if you like Texas blues. Sue has her own distinctive style. A true artist in her own right. Has some amazing sidemen on the album which proves she is admired by other great Blues guitarists. | |
| Running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode and 4 Ohm Speaker Benchmark have been making ground breaking products for years. They are an embarrassment to most of the old school industry. Out performing incumbent market leaders technically (measurements) by considerable amounts at reasonable cost.This is heal... | |
| If you could just pick one instrument that you think sounds best on your speakers Speakers are ATC EL150ASL with all ATC in house drivers and electronics (no outsourcing). Nicely balanced and neutral with lifelike dynamics. If I was to pick an instrument that sounds most impressive I think it would be a huge cathedral organ. No... | |
| If you could just pick one instrument that you think sounds best on your speakers None. Nothing stands out materially. Everything sounds the way I would expect from drums and percussion to full orchestra to a single guitar or vocalist. What you describe may be more of a combined speaker and room effect. Certainly Room modes and... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? Lorin Maazel Shostakovich 5th is a good test CD recorded by Telarc. Especially the last movement. Plenty of dynamics. | |
| Time for a Pre change? Need the wisdom... Get a tube preamp. C-2500 or C-2600. | |
| Your single favorite musician on any given instrument? Bass - FleaGuitar - Mike Campbell, J J CaleDrums - Steve Ferrone, Chad SmithPiano/Keyboards - Elton John, Herbie HancockSaxophone - Maceo ParkerTrombone - ShortyTrumpet - Mic GiletteViolin - Anne Sophie MuterVocals - don’t care for them - vocalist... | |
| Any Mark Knopfler fans out there? Mark Knopfler is not only a talented guitarist but a true creative original artist who tells stories and paints pictures with his music. He also happens to be a bit of a stickler for sound quality.He built the now famous British Grove Studios arou... |