thom_oz
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| Acoustics experts - a little help please re: "You can put such files through Mark Levinson’s/Daniel Hertz Master Class Software" Call me a doubter on this one LOL. Just switching from a MM or MC cart to the DS Audio (high output optical cartridge) system HAS to be a much bigger improvem... | |
| Vinyl that is impossible to find @bdp24 Just get the Intervention vinyl or SACDs of those Judee Sill albums, you’ll thank me later! I have a US original s/t and a UK press of ’Heart Food" and they are nothing special. Even the Rhino handmade cds and "Abracadabra" (the current 2... | |
| How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there. I could easily stop now . . . but if I gave in to upgrade-itis, I would change my Rega P6 for a Brinkmann Bardo TT (lower noise floor), my Ortofon 2M w/ shibata stylus cart for a DS Audio optical cart/preamp system, which can also have a shibata s... | |
| Acoustics experts - a little help please @deep_333 I have around a dozen of SW's 5.1 surround sound remixes and I'm a big fan (have not heard Atmos mixes of those yet of course). I wish Giles Martin had even half Wilson's skill at this. I have zero interest in running my records thru o... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mofimadness Just curious, were you aware that Bob Irwin at Sundazed did all his mastering digitally before the lacquers were cut? I generally like his work and I have a number of Sundazed reissues. All are well pressed, and none seem to suffer f... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bld63 Dude, that sounds like one of my playlists LOL. Mitch Ryder's "See See Rider/Jenny Take A Ride" was on the very first record (24 Original Happening Hits) in my now huge collection. | |
| Acoustics experts - a little help please @deep_333 you're correct that I was not thinking of object-based surround or 3D audio at all. For my uses and room I haven't pursued expanding past 5.1 in my surround-sound music, and I only own one Atmos capable music disc (Abbey Road on Blu-Ray... | |
| Acoustics experts - a little help please @deep_333 why would you say: "Setting expectations straight, 3D is a foolish concept concept in purist stereo." -? I'm primarily listening to CD thru McIntosh MX-113 and a 2200 amplifier, and Sonus Faber Cremona speakers. My experience with thi... | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? My definition of "air" in a recording is a sense of space around the instruments. I have noticed that spatial cues captured in a recording around 500hz - 3khz make the recording sound wider or deeper and frequencies above that make the recording s... | |
| What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you? My computer autocorrects Harman to Harmon. Apologies to anyone offended, "you're welcome" to anyone it gave a laugh to. | |
| Should I buy another flat screen now while they are still relatively cheap? @ immatthewj I saw a 65" TV recently for $268, and although it was not the newest model it wasn’t "blowout clearance" either. If you’re going to have a TV in your house at all (I don’t own one), why not put back a spare while they are this insan... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? Stay away from noisy graphic EQs and get a Schiit Loki. Four bands, under $200. Steve Guttenberg has one and loves his. | |
| What do you do when the music’s not speaking to you? @oddiofyl You have the answer: a lush, sweet system in one room and a dry, analytical one in the other room. When the dry system starts to get on your nerves, you switch systems for a day or two. My sodium intake can fluctuate and when it's high... | |
| Building a second, vinyl focused system. Speaker advice needed! (<$10k) "Immersive, holographic soundstage and imaging" It sounds like you want a pair of Sonus Fabers, They needn't be over $10k, I have a new-to-me pair of minty Cremonas that ran me under $4k. Also have two 10" Klipsch subs with the low pass set near... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? I have a Rega P6, Ortofon 2M Black (shibata) cart, McIntosh MX113 phono/preamp on my primary system. My other phono setup is a Marantz TT-15 with Clearaudio Wood Ebony cart and a Harmon-Kardon 330c receiver, so "less robust". I keep my records as... |