snilf
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| Am I right for this forum? Wow. I had not anticipated that posting my Virtual System would result in accusations of being a troll. If grislybutter had read the (admittedly excessively long) narrative, he'd know that the many speakers in the photos were mostly borrowed, and ... | |
| Am I right for this forum? Thanks to so many for so much encouragement—even to chrshanl37 for comparing my post to Stewart Smalley (ouch! but point taken). The general, and reasonable, consensus seems to be that "music lover" and "audiophile" are not synonymous, but not mut... | |
| FAKE NEWS - NEGATIVE REVIEWS NOT ALLOWED!! No negative reviews ever? Maybe that's more or less the case now, but it was not always so. My preferred speaker (and I've heard about a dozen well-regarded and more expensive alternatives in my own listening space over the years, and own three) r... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers Stereophile Class A, etc.? Well... The PSB Synchrony One (I have a pair; they're in storage) were listed by Stereophile in 2012 as a starred “Class A Loudspeaker Recommended Component,” along with speakers costing up to $80,000 in that category, ... | |
| A.I. music I just published a paper that speaks directly to this subject ("Our Minds, Our Selves: Mind, Meaning, and Machines," forthcoming in Borderless Philosophy 7 later this year). It argues that machines cannot be minds because they lack sentience and c... | |
| Better cd SQ Addendum to the PS Audio UltraLink note above. Robert Harley, in Stereophile, loved this DAC. His "Conclusion" begins like this: "The PS Audio UltraLink offers many aspects of high-end digital processor performance at an unprecedented price. The p... | |
| Better cd SQ I've got a Marantz SA 8005 CD/SACD player. It's very nice and has the guts (DAC chip, etc.) to sound fine. But...I picked up a PS Audio UltraLink DAC at an estate sale for $25 (yes, that's right), and, well.... Admittedly, the UltraLink is very sl... | |
| Opinions on NAD please Funny; I posted a thread just two weeks ago, asking for opinions about the vintage NAD Monitor Series gear, and got only two responses, both pretty dismissive. I’ve owned a late 1990s NAD 7600 Monitor Series receiver for almost 30 years. Well, to... | |
| A persistent hummmm... Since Erik asked, I’ll ask it, too. The OP doesn’t say whether or not the hum is coming from his speakers, or just audible at the listening spot. I ask for this clarification because I, too, have had a problem with a persistent hum—but, evidently... | |
| Volume levels I don't know what you mean by "dynamic range," but digital media have much more dynamic range, in the usual sense of the word, than vinyl. "Loudness wars" aside (and that means: compression of pop for play in cars, etc.), vinyl not only can't repr... | |
| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? That cable comment is popular with me! Also the remarks about room acoustics. I was going to write something of the kind myself. Room acoustics are at least as important as the speaker technology for the final sound. | |
| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? mlsstl’s comment dovetails with something I wanted to add. I use unamplified acoustic music as my "personal reference," too. I do like rock, even loud rock (e.g., Tool), but mostly listen to so-called "classical," and I play cello and acoustic gui... | |
| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? One more thing. Several here have objected to measurements in principle, appealing to what your ears like as the only relevant standard. Well, yeah, of course. But that doesn't mean measurements are irrelevant. I don't want to open up this always ... | |
| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? Not sure if this is right or relevant (better informed posters like Mr. Squires, please correct me if I'm wrong), but such "dips" (i.e., "3-4 dB at about 1.5 kHz") are not analogous to, say, missing a shade of blue between Cerulean and Cobalt. Wha... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle Two different links to the same helpful article by Norman Varney here. IMO, the main take-aways: 1. "Couplers are unpredictable, inconsistent, and never neutral. A quality audio isolation device...will perform predictably, consistently, and neutr... |