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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sarah Vaughan - Sassy (1962 reissue of the 1956 recording on Mercury)Squarepusher - Go PlasticPete Townshend - White City: A Novel | |
| Machina Dynamica New Dark Matter CD and Blu Ray tray treatment? CD diode lasers are about 780 nm which is in the infrared and is not visible. Our vision falls off greater than about 633 nm or so. Cheaper, more recently developed 405 nm diode lasers in the violet allowed development of blueray. DVD is 650 nm or... | |
| New speakers? No thanks. Vandersteen Quattros would (will) be my final speaker; for now I'll just enjoy my Thiel 2.4s. | |
| The Science of Cables @cleeds: "It wasn't a valid "test." It was a deception, an illusion, a misdirection intended to produce an invalid result. That's not even remotely a scientific test."Ok, so exactly what IS a scientific test? | |
| Need to under stand Asynchronous USB 1) You can use a USB flash drive, iPod or other portable player.2) Asynchronus is what you want. The DAC being fed by the input reclocks the data and this is the ideal. | |
| Perhaps we should stick with midfi... +1 on Myfi, which I was (honestly) about to propose. My reasoning being that any music played from a system that makes me happier than before I started listening, no matter the componentry, is "Myfi."oblgny: you beat me to it! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Phil Western - LongForm (RIP Phil, died Feb 9)Interpol - MarauderUltravox - Quartet | |
| Spam Prevention Merci Beaucoup! | |
| MC suggestions I have owned a Lyra Helikon and now own two Delos cartridges. I don’t know where you heard that they were "thin" sounding but that sentiment couldn’t be further from the truth. Lyra cartridges are very evenly balanced across the audio band; don’t ... | |
| Is there a standard for number of LP's per inch? Better to measure the width of one hundred records and then use that. | |
| The Science of Cables @taras22: "You may want to go take a peak at this thing called proof theory, which talks about what numbers can and can’t do. One of the things it says is that numbers are an abstract concept that relate most perfectly to themselves and only tange... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? SVS subs are not "elite" because they are priced fairly and are of high value, something so-called elitists care nothing about. | |
| Where to go in Portland... Well, yes, but, Portland, OR is the largest Portland in the world so it's a logical default. | |
| The Science of Cables @teo_audio: "It’s good to remember that numbers exist no where in the real world, that numbers are an abstract thing in a human mind. They can never be real. It’s a tool...and it is in charge of exactly nothing. Math can be one of those incredibly... | |
| Mytek Brooklyn This is a textbook example of why companies can fail. A company culture that is not honest with, and supportive of, its customer base, no matter how good the product, will find it hard to prosper until such deficiencies are fixed. It's about manag... |