snilf
Responses from snilf
| Pictures at an Exhibition It was my impression the OP was asking for piano performances, not the version orchestrated by Ravel. An audiophile friend (Focal speakers, Linn table, etc.) considers the Ivo Pogorelich recording (DGG "4D" from 1997) to be his reference standard... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @mikelavigne, mijostyn— Gotta agree with mijostyn, even though I share Mike’s skepticism regarding DSP. In fact, I learned of a superlative digital (DSD SACD) "reference recording" from a post of Mike’s many months ago: Anna Netrebko’s DGG recita... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, Comparing one’s own system to speakers heard at audio shows, stores, or even other people’s listening rooms is questionable at best. To know if some product might improve the SQ of one’s own system requires auditioning it at home for at least a we... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? mijostyn, You mentioned a "bright" system imaging the cymbals "10 feet in front of the snare." Well, there are more egregious imaging manipulations, especially with drums, that are a deliberate artifact of the original mastering. The drums on Too... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? hilde45: Like the pragmatism, but not so sure about Pierce (despite mahgister's fondness). And I don't see how we can do away with the ding an sich! The "I'm not a nominalist either" remark was a response to mahgister's opening line. Mahgister: "... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Mahgister and hilde45: I'm not a "nominalist," either, nor was I trying to suggest that either of you might be. ("Not that there's anything wrong with that.") My philosophical intuitions are mostly Kantian these days, after half a century contrib... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? "Real" as "flatus vocis"; me like! But then, to some degree, ALL language is flatus vocis, since words are not the things they stand in for. On the other hand, Webster says that words should not be, but "correspond" to, some "objective reality" in... | |
| My Center, 50 lbs and 1,000 Watts Eric, Chapeau bas, as the French say. Such audio craftsmanship lends a lot of weight to your posts on this forum—like the added authority a wine maker can bring to a tasting. I always read your posts with interest. | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? The perennial question for audiophiles (assuming by "surreal" the OP meant something like "super-real"; I doubt any but the oddest of us would prefer our systems to sound "unreal," "bizarre," "freakish" or any of the other synonyms of "surreal," w... | |
| Hiatus rvpiano: I've appreciated many of your posts over the years, but none as much as this one. By coincidence, I, too, have finally arrived at some kind of audiophilc stasis. After half a dozen superlative speaker systems in competition with my belove... | |
| The Ultimate Audio Modification: Golden Ears Two points re: "Golden ears" and old ears: 1. It doesn’t seem to be necessary to actually be physiologically capable of hearing all frequencies in order to “listen well.” I don’t know how to explain this, but I have a sweet anecdote to illustrate... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? If the answer to the OP's question is "NO," as many here affirm, then what are you doing on the Audiogon forum? We're sharing opinions about SQ here, are we not? And without even listening together, so that none of us has any way of norming or oth... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? What's the point in weighing in on this debate? But I will anyway. Do cables matter? One can—as this among so many other threads, websites, and books abundantly show!—make cogent "arguments" on both sides. No one will ever settle the matter by ar... | |
| How rare is an audiophile I guess I’m an outlier here. I already had audiophile friends in high school. In college, just about all the guys in the dorms were into good stereos, and several had what even today, and even after years of earning, would still be considered good... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? Completely agree with simonmoon. But...there’s nothing wrong with dramatic spatial effects produced by studio tricks in rock music. In previous threads on this site, people have commented on how, with a good jazz recording, the drums are often cen... |