snilf
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| Is imaging reality? Sorry for the long post, but I have one more reflection to add. Besides my wife's love of attending live concerts (with eyes closed) and her dislike of listening at home to recordings, we have a close family friend who founded a youth orchestra in... | |
| Is imaging reality? This is, IMHO, the central question posed by our collective obsession: "high fidelity." "Fidelity" to what, exactly? To the live performance, in the case of "classical" music (symphonies, chamber music, solo recitals)? That is, to an "original" th... | |
| What are the sexiest components ever made? Scientific Fidelity "Tesla" speakers, designed and built by Mike Maloney. | |
| Buying a new TT today So many reasonable opinions and suggestions here. But I'm going to be a contrarian. I owned a ProJect Debut Carbon DC for a few months, and...sorry, despite advice from well-informed friends, despite all the rave reviews, I HATED it. First of all,... | |
| 1st SACD Purchase "Credo," Helene Grimaud, Sweedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Esa-Pekka Salonen (on Deutsche Grammophon).I have Red Book and SACD versions of this astonishing "recital." It includes a contemporary solo piano piece, a Beethoven piano sonata... | |
| Anyone with tinnitus or hearing loss who is into "high-end" audio? Thanks to everyone for this informative and, frankly, somewhat reassuring thread.Last summer, on a flight back to CA from Prague, I sat in front of a family with a continuously shrieking infant. The child must have been sick; a week after getting ... | |
| Simple question, or is it... Thanks to Millercarbon for his very lucid account of the physics of audio transmission. I’d add a brief philosophical remark. The talk of “forces,” “fields,” and so on in physics is very useful for calculating and predicting outcomes, but it does ... | |
| What kind of listener are you? That Origin Live document is itself pretty "analytical," but interesting nonetheless.For me, accuracy of instrumental timbre is probably most important, followed by spatial realism (soundstage width and depth, instrumental placement, "air" around ... |