shadorne
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| Music to evaluate Speakers and System I disagree that one should use whatever one likes. A system should play everything well unless one is happy to predispose what one can play and enjoy to one genre or another. A nasty test is the Sheffield Drum Track - Track 1. Try this at realisti... | |
| Build your ultimate FANTASY system Her symphony and song,To such a deep delight 'twould win me,That with music loud and long,I would build that dome in air,That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !And all who heard should see them there,And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !His flashi... | |
| Best New speaker under $5000 Cool - congrats! Now your brother has to find something better!!!! | |
| most accurate loudspeakers.... Dr Joe,Tri-amped Tannoy 215 DMT's ....wow that would be impressive! Where did you hear these? By main monitor, I guess you mean these were permanently installed (in walls?) and mainly used to impress clients... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables I don't believe the article was meant to blame cables but rather highlight the complex interaction of the system due to the cable's connection - and that the cables themselves also contribute to the overall effect to varying degree. Arthur, now I... | |
| What am I missing using a 20 year old CD player?? Don,I agree. Analog was very forgiving. Digital is brutal. A mistake in the recording studio is not forgiven in digital. Digital sounds terrible when it clips or distorts...analog tape machines have a huge advantage over digital when over driven, ... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables hi shadorne. there are two cable interfaces that you may be overlooking, namely the source to preamp and the preamp to amp. what about transport to dac Since these are just signal cables (almost no power or current), they have a specifically desi... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables Dave,Sorry for the caps - too much coffee this morning I guess,As for moratorium on passive speakers....no I don't believe that. I agree that that the vast majority of the best speakers are passive.I believe that for a well designed amp and for we... | |
| What am I missing using a 20 year old CD player?? CD players improved up to the mid 90's but D/A improvements started to hit diminishing returns after this as they were so good, IMHO. The failure of SACD shows that the ordinary CD player is darn good - so much so that most consumers see absolutel... | |
| A hard look at the effect of cables Blame the cables. It is the cables fault.Everyone knows that the amplifier and cable and complex speaker load interact. However, blaming cables is a "cop out" to me. It is all too obvious that the distortion products (due to complex interaction) w... | |
| Rush in 5.1 surround Well I got the R30 set and listened last night - I guess I was curious to see if it was better.It was and it wasn't.The venue acoustics were terrible...and the guitars and vocals were rather muffled and often distorted....it seemed to suffer what ... | |
| Amazing James Randi? Mr Hosehead,Interesting thread - thanks for the link. None of this surprises me in the least - least of all the venom. Fremer sounds like an emotional fellow and this is just the type of person who writes good objective reviews.If Randi has brains... | |
| Rush in 5.1 surround No I did't get the R30 box set. I thought about it though as it was a pretty good deal - if you wanted all three concerts. (The separate 2007 DVD's are the same though - so I was told at HMV) | |
| Am I Bad Listener? My electricity comes from burning natural gas - so it is pretty clean souding compared to those of you on coal! | |
| Rush in 5.1 surround Well I got both Show of Hands and Exit Stage Left DVD's and gave them a spin yesterday.Verdict =>Show of Hands is much better sound and better video. Xanadu in Exit Stage Left is worth it just for this one track.Conclusion => mixed bag reall... |