shazam
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| Heaver grade vinyl vs Standard At least when you buy 180g or 200g there are, in most cases, 2 albums instead of 1 to show for your money.Hold the phone. If you are talking about 45 rpm re-issues, that is an entirely different ballgame. To me, nothing - not even SACD versions of... | |
| Best EL-34 Amps? I second the Manley Snapper Monoblocks | |
| Best recorded rock album.Amused to Death.R.Waters? If you are into the heavier stuff, Megadeth's 'Countdown to Extinction' was just given the MOFI treatment and sounds pretty good. And the three most recent Tool ablums are all exceptionally recorded (10,000 Days, Lateralus, Aenema). Lastly, early ... | |
| First SACD to Listen To? Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms; The Police - Synchronicity. Odds are you are pretty familiar with the music on both of these and these two disks will give you a great comparison. | |
| Do I need a special DAC for SACD ? K, are you wanting multichannel or simply higher resolution? Multichannel is probably the most noticeable benefit you will gain over your MBL setup - and there simply aren't that many titles to make it worth the expense. If you want to dabble, I a... | |
| So whats your favorite music themed movie? American Graffiti | |
| dream theater systematic chaos on vinyl This surprises me. Too bad my opinion of the album itself is so low I can't bring myself to spend the money on a second copy of it. But good to know that DT albums sound good on vinyl - offers me hope for future re-issues of DT on vinyl. | |
| Best recorded rock album.Amused to Death.R.Waters? A handfull of favorites...Dire Straits - Brothers in ArmsJeff Buckley - GracePorcupine Tree - In AbsentiaThe Police - Synchronicity | |
| Confessions "Since you been gooooooone..." Yes, Kelly Clarkson is my secret shame. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yep, "Animals" and "Dark Side of the Moon" for me tonight. Magical albums. | |
| When Streaming, is 128kps good or not so good? For the record, 128k is typical of distributed music intended for iPods and such - where fidelity is at a common consumer level. Assuming you are on even on the low end of hi-fi, you will hear significant differences between 96k, 128k, and 192k. 2... | |
| When Streaming, is 128kps good or not so good? It depends a lot on what type of music you listen to. Modern popular recordings are produced to sound as good as possible in compressed mp3 formats, so 128k will probably be alright for casual listening. However, if you listen to classical, jazz, ... | |
| Does colored vinyl sound as bad as picture discs? I've bought 2 picture disks (one on purpose, one on accident) and they both are awful. One of them is even out of tune (how do you screw something up that badly?).Never noticed a problem with colored vinyl. Bad sounding colored vinyl would likely ... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? We have more choices now than ever...This may be part of the contributing problem to the debate. When there was only vinyl, the recording/engineering/pressing of the album was either good or bad, and it was usually pretty obvious. Now, we have man... | |
| Good Matched Amps Preamps for Proac D28 Check out Manley Labs. My local dealer keeps a pair of D38s paired with the Neo Classic mono blocks and it sounds stunning (about $9,000/pair new). For half the price of those, the Snappers sound almost as good - a better bargain in my mind ($4,20... |