shadorne
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| Digital Drum Kits It may also be the recording - drums are almost always compressed and rarely sound lifelike on what is mastered for consumers - you may have found a good recording. | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in Albert,I never said break in was not real. I just prefer components that are engineered to be precise and that do not drift dramatically with time. It is a simple design choice to place a capacitor in the signal path or not. It is a simple design ... | |
| Best Sounding SACD Here is a list of SACD's they selected especially to demo the new format. All of these will be particularly good. | |
| Best Sounding SACD Doug Sax did a nice job on Aerosmith's first three albums. | |
| Burn in question and evaluation before burn in We all experienced sound transformation before and after a new equipment or cable is burned in Your question is excellent - I see absolutely no reason to assume that gear should be better with burn in. Why can't it get worse too? How do you know ... | |
| CDs: Not all created equal Dr. Rubinken is in. Tell me Nyctc7 how do you feel about your mother? (Just kidding) ;-) | |
| CDs: Not all created equal Nobody that I've ever met in my whole life gives a damn about the solstice. Nevertheless....Earth, Sun and Moon by Midnight Oil is an absolutely AMAZING CD! (Another great production by Nick Launay who just happens to like certain LOUD Large Moni... | |
| what is a lazy old audiophile to do? have you ever had any of your changers modded or tweaked? No as I mentioned - I am pretty lazy. My philosophy is that if it doesn't work well enough then I buy better designed gear (I don't lack funds). I use the same logic for cables and ic's - ... | |
| Crossover upgrade capacitor question Precisely matched smaller capacitors in parallel may work better than an equivalent large capacitor. A lot depends on geometry as well as the choice of dielectric. Remember that caps used in passive crossover see high voltages and therefore they c... | |
| R&B recording with analog like sound but on CD? Most of Keb Mo recordings are excellent - I'd start there. | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? Communication problems are not unique to cellphones. | |
| Using CD player without Preamp? Maybe you could explain how data is lost. It doesn't have to be so. It is lost through "quantization" error due to rounding. Normally a CD will be dithered when it is produced from a higher resolution source - preserving 93 db SPL of dynamic rang... | |
| what is a lazy old audiophile to do? My sense so far (after several attempts to find anyone at Apple who is knowledgeable) is that Apple doesn't care much about this stuff. Seems kind of short-sighted. Apple is quite highly regarded in audio. iTunes has been extremely succesful for ... | |
| Buying expensive used CD player/transp = bad idea? is a DAC much better in terms of D to A conversion than a good pre-amp/ integrated amp? A separate DAC (with no DSP processing) may be better at dealing with incoming jitter and internal generated jitter than a DSP pre or integrated - there is a ... | |
| Which DAC for $5K or less? For pure sound quality performance per $ - I'd go for the DAC1 - it is dry it is precise but not harsh, although a recording may sound like a recording depending on the mix. If you want something a bit more organic sounding then the others will be... |