surfcat
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| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? Depends on what's the weakest link in a system and what it's replaced with | |
| Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good String Cheese Incident - Rhythm of the Road, Vol. 2 It's a live NYE concert in Vegas from some years ago. Recording is excellent, the range of styles of music and the shear musicallity is, at time, nearly breathtaking. Some of the hottest sax I... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided @douglas_schroeder When the internet evolved beyond the old BBS world I thought this was gonna be great, people sharing knowledge, growing with and from one another. Has turned into something rather different, polluted by self-righteous and cowa... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided And again, what a judgemental, self-righteous bunch. So you're asking if you should take advice from people who constantly upgrade. The most obvious answer is, "YES!" They've listened to a lot of different things, in a lot of different combinat... | |
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. Wow and hey!, Best Buy has people waiting for you to come in and browse. They've got a great deal right now on a Crosley system. Amp, tuner, cd player, a turn table and even a cassette deck with speakers! It's $199.95 so jump on it!! But reall... | |
| So I just bought a Hegel H390 and Haven't heard the KEF Blades, but in the right room, i.e. they're adjacent to room sidewalls to work with their side firing woofers, I think they'd be some magic. I lived with a pair of LS50W on stands for a while and was completely shocked. An ... | |
| So I just bought a Hegel H390 and We went from the H360 to the H390. You should really like the Hegel. A few points, if I may. It needs to break in. So don't be flipped out if is sounds dull and un-engaging when you first set it up.It needs to be on for about an hour, even aft... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. And I feel bad for my fellow Baby Boomers who, believing there is not music as great as that of their youth, have missed out on the music of Phish, String Cheese Incident, Green Day, Foo Fighters, 10,000 Maniacs, .moe, Keller Williams, Cranberries... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? By "placebo" do you mean like when you thought you were buying weed but actually got some dried up random plant material but you thought you got high from it anyway? Man, I HATE placebos! All headphones sound better with quality weed. | |
| To Stream or not to Stream Get Roon and Tidal, maybe Qobuz for the odd thing that's not on Tidal. You music collection suddenly becomes almost everything you can think of or even hear about. Yes, there are a few exceptions that aren't yet on those two... very few. Sound ... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use Hegel H390, upgraded from the H360 a year ago for the Roon Ready feature. Still not Roon ready. Tighter/clearer all the way across. Feels slightly more extended but I bet thats just the extra grip the H390 has on the signal. The H360 is really... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? Really good (highly accurate/resolving etc.) cables will NOT sound great in a mediocre or average system. In fact they'll likely make the system sound worse because they will work to expose the weaknesses of the system. The audio system, of which... | |
| New Speakers $10K -$20K Dude, these are your "forever" speakers. You've concluded that you, at 65, finally deserve some really good sound. Congrats. And, btw, you're correct, with the right system your music listening will go up. Don't let your wife accidentally derail t... |