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| analyzing sound I'm surprised there are not a lot of responses to this perfectly reasonable posting. As it happens, there are "annotated playlists" (and CDs) that are specifically designed to demonstrate various audiophile virtues. Consider, for example, Chesky's... | |
| Physically Comfortable Headphones Here’s a third recommendation for HiFiMan’s big head designs—in my case, the HE 1000. They LOOK massive and awkward, but they’re exquisitely comfortable, very open-sounding (and sound-permeable: others can hear you, and you will hear ambient sound... | |
| New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid Fear...surprise...and an almost fanatical devotion to B&W. No surprise, actually. There’s a reason (or many reasons) that B&W have been the standard monitors for DGG and a host of other premiere recording labels for decades. The 801s are ... | |
| IsoAcoustics GAIA @baylinor : "Isolation is key, not coupling." As I understand it, the choice here has to do with the type of floor you have. If it's suspended wood, the floor becomes an uncontrolled resonator. It that case, you want to isolate the speakers' vibra... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. Interesting post, even if not all that new. The Youtube stats are interesting; I haven't seen quite such dramatic "empirical evidence" of these trends before. But, FWIW, my experience doesn't quite correspond. For one thing, I'm a university prof... | |
| Music reproduction is art "The essence of art is the creative production of something. Ipso facto, reproduction is not art." (@yoyoyaya). But a recording IS "the creative production of something." You need to consider Eisenberg's argument, cited above. A recording is not m... | |
| Music reproduction is art Check out Evan Eisenberg's book The Recording Angel (much admired by John Atkinson of Stereophile, among others). Eisenberg's thesis is that the recording engineer or producer is very much an artist, and the recording is indeed a work of art. A sa... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD Reasons to keep physical media (from the Stereophile piece just posted): 1. Control. Streaming services may not exist forever. The financial health of even Qobuz and Tidal "is largely unknown." 2. Control. Streaming services often don't provide... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD An interesting piece appeared recently in Stereophile about this topic. It concedes the statistical decline in CD (and vinyl) sales in favor of streaming, but then argues for keeping one's physical media for a variety of excellent reasons. Here's ... | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? I agree with @sns when he mentions "sentience" as important in distinguishing real human minds from computer simulacra, but then he goes on to say "If people perceive it as a sentient being isn't it a sentient being?" This assumes something like t... | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? I've got a long address to this very question, just published last month. Here's the link: https://www.cckp.space (go to the paper "Our Minds, Our Selves: Mind, Meaning, and Machines" to download it for free). Short take: it's a mistake to consi... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? rok2id: "Please take the statements I made one by one and point out the ignorance of each." Funny; I was originally going to do just that. 1. "Classical is unique in that it’s the same music played over and over by different ensembles." The sa... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? This post provokes answers to one of the perennial questions on this forum, implied by a snide remark attributed to Alan Parsons: "Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipme... | |
| ADD or Audiophile? Funny; I read "ADD" as "Analog/Digital/Digital," and expected this post to be about older vs. newer recording technologies. Don't believe in "multi-tasking." Research proves that it isn't really possible, that the brain can properly focus on only... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? I cut a round piece of Magic Eraser (lots of praise for this product used for this purpose) to fit into the cavity of a trimmed rubber furniture foot, which then sits on my turntable plinth between platter and tone arm rest. I lower the stylus ont... |