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| Cable curmudgeon bruce19: +1. Your post came in while I was writing mine; I wouldn't have bothered had I read yours first. bruce is the Boss! | |
| Cable curmudgeon This is actually a very revealing thread; maybe it would benefit from better cables. The OP may be trolling, or may be just bewildered by audiophile fetishism; hard to tell. But the vitriol his post inspired is revealing. Those who calmly respond ... | |
| Constructing songs "What's He Building In There?" by Tom Waits. | |
| Inside the Iso Acoustics mechanism I've tried the Gaias, and Nobsound springs. In my system, isolating the speakers rather than coupling them to the floor is definitely the way to go. BUT...after the dust settled, I've gone back to simple sorbothane disks ($24 for a set of eight). ... | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? I love the way some audio gear looks, and visual aesthetics is part of what creates desire for a given item. Pintrest keeps sending me photos of beautiful listening rooms, and I do look at them. Audio porn. But...as it happens, my large listening... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings If "Tea for the Tillerman" is your thing (several here have mentioned it), here's one of the best deep dives into alternative masterings of any classic record I know of: https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/the-best-version-of/the-best-version-of%E2%... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings Thanks, tisimst, for this thread. As many have pointed out, it is unusually civil and constructive for this forum. My two cents: First, I agree with zgas-music about the general principle that "small ensembles" (and, by extension, solo instrumen... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Prof: We don't disagree here about, well, anything, I think. Granted: all causal relationships "presuppose" a connection between cause and effect, and the correlation (sorry: causation) between certain measurements and the correlative subjective i... | |
| Balanced versus single ended As usual in situations like this, a middle ground is probably closed to the truth. Hence: "it depends." Robert Harley, in The Complete Guide to High-End Audio, concedes that, in certain circumstances, balanced connections may sound better, but tha... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Prof: interesting point about how a measurement (e.g., a 4 dB boost at 150 Hz) can express a "subjective impression" to another specialist who speaks the language of decibels and Herz. Of course, this presupposes that the subjective correlate ("wa... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Don't know how or why this discussion got off onto this particular set of rails, but hey: this is my wheelhouse, actually. I've done a lot of thinking recently about AI and "consciousness." The new GPT-3 AI program is formidable; what it can do l... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole gregm: agreed. I think. The uncertainty concerns what "consistency" would mean here. Am I "thorough"? Yes, I hope so. "Spontaneous"? Sure—at least when I'm not too concerned with being "thorough." Do I prefer baroque, classical, romantic? Yes! But... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Ah! Prof, I just looked at your thread—and realized why I recognized your "name" on this forum! I actually copied and pasted that thread some time ago into a document for storage in my "audio" file on the hard drive of this laptop, for future refe... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Prof—and yet again, mahgister, and mijostyn too: thanks so much for your insightful comments. Prof, I will look at your "thread"; this is just the sort of writing about audio I love to read: about the equipment, but grounded in an appreciation of ... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Thanks, prof (from one to another, apparently) for taking my OP seriously. However, I suppose I buried what I’d meant to be a fairly simple point in too much philosophical baggage, and confused even a careful reader like you. You suggest that my o... |