stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners? "But the problem I see is that, because everything is at hand, your listening changes too and you just jump around rather than listening to a CD/LP that often the artist put a ton of time into to create a musical arc. It’s instant gratification... | |
| Sonics? All Things Must Pass -50th Anniversary "The vocals are dry, and the album sounds smaller due to an attempt at 'de-Spectorization'." Interesting, given that Dhani said "de-spectorization" was not his intent. | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! @oldaudiophile:Yes-- I'm quite pleased with the results. I have no plans to ever upgrade any of my components except possibly the speakers-- but that will be simply to move to the current model. I agree that it would be wonderful to have places wh... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? @artemus5: "Most of them are story tellers which goes well in some genre but is mostly wasted in R&R. A case in point is Led Zeppelin". There are plenty of R&R vocalists whose lyrics can be easily understood, and there are R&R v... | |
| Power cord choice? @rsjm80:You will get many, many responses but you will never know what's right for you and your system until you actually demo some cables. Use YOUR own ears! There are cable manufacturers that sell direct with risk-free home trials. Another opt... | |
| Are "vintage" DAC's worthwhile, or is this a tech that does not age well "All competently-designed DACs will sound alike"".DACS come in many sonic flavors. . . some may not hear the differences,though. | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? Is today's music lacking?Depends on your personal taste and your sources for music.I've viewed/read a good many interviews where songwriters point out the difficulty of coming up something that sounds fresh, at this point in history. This suggests... | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! @oldaudiophile: "I like to think I've acquired enough audiophile smarts over the years to be able to factor in variables like different sound rooms, different acoustics, source equipment, etc. I always make a point of controlling for as many of t... | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! @oldaudiophile:The more expensive the gear, the less likely I'd be to base a purchase on an in-store demo, with no chance of return. I would never lay down $2500, let alone $10,000 on any component that I could not first hear in my system, in my ... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. "Maybe it's more wise to not dwell on things we cannot change, especially if creating a negative emotion like anger, sadness, etc. Perhaps it's better to relish in your good fortune to know of and be able to enjoy your favorite music genres - liv... | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! @jehab:"Forgive me for speaking for edcyn, but I think he was serious, though meant it in a different tone than you perceived due to his word choice. Try substituting "eager and aspiring" for "itchy-fingered wannabe" to read it another way. I dare... | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! @edcyn: "...the rise of mail order and the web have democratized the landscape and have made it so any itchy-fingered wannabe audiophile can enter the game". Just wondering... is this meant to be a joke or are you serious? | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! @millercarbon:First of all, I don't buy from big box sellers. More to the point, I'm not an engineer by profession, sensibility or inclination-- I'm an artistic sort who has little interest in why/how a given component works. What I do care about ... | |
| Keeping Audiophilia And The Love Of Music Alive & Well! I guess I'm in the minority but I refuse to buy expensive gear based solely upon a showroom demo as part of a system that is different from my own, in a room that is different from my room, with no return policy. And I don't lament the demise of s... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. In the 60's,70's, we had to listen to FM stations to hear much of the good stuff. Thank God I had a few friends with extensive record collections who turned me on to stuff I'd otherwise never have known about. |