tomcy6
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Why vinyl? Digital is still in its infancy. I think that digital, maybe not cd but maybe 24/96 downloads or whatever comes next, will surpass the best sound quality available today in the not too distant future. As far as sales numbers go, there's a January ... | |
Why vinyl? Why do vinyl lovers feel that they have to disparage cds and people who listen to them? Michael Fremer started this trend and it has been adopted by too many of his followers.As others have said, there are good and bad sounding lps and cds. If you... | |
Why Can't Tubes Be Mass-Produced Cheaply? Some of the difference in opinion on whether NOS sound better than current production can be differences in hearing. As I get older I am less and less able to tolerate harshness or grain or glare. Speakers and gear that I once enjoyed now grate on... | |
Economic Safe Way to Ship an Amp I don't like to use UPS in general, but I believe they offer a packing service, which does a good job of packing and they may actually pay insurance claims if you use their packing service. I am not recommending UPS and I don't know if they would ... | |
Conrad Johnson owners - I don't own a c-j tube preamp yet but I have been reading up on them. My understanding is that a CT5 would probably sound more refined and more neutral than your CT6 (I don't know how much more) whereas a 16LS2 would have a warmer, more golden sou... | |
Why Can't Tubes Be Mass-Produced Cheaply? I think that it is quite possible that small signal tubes that can compete with NOS tubes could be manufactured again. Tube gear is very popular again so there is plenty of profit to be made and with the design and testing technology available tod... | |
conrad johnson CT6 with solid state amp Thanks for the replies everyone. I understand that newer cj gear is not as colored as the older gear, but there is a richness or palbability or depth or whatever term you choose in tube gear that most solid state doesn't have. That's why you use t... | |
Got a New CD Player and Now I'm Bummed I would not spend significant amounts of money to get a marginal improvement in vinyl playback. I would save the money for your next digital upgrade. I think that most of the sound quality improvements have been wrung out of vinyl but cd players a... | |
Best sound on classic rock cds Capitol recently reissued Linda Ronstadt's four albums for the label on a remastered two cd set and they sound pretty good.This is when Linda was more country or country rock. Definitely not as rockin' as her later stuff. Heart Like A Wheel is the... | |
Trumpet cds like Chinatown I have 3 cds by trumpeteer Mark Isham and I think his sound could be described as ethereal. Mark played with Van Morrison on some of his more ethereal stuff but his work as a leader would be classified as jazz.Blue Sun, and two soundtracks coincid... | |
Used CD player for under $2000 I have a Cary 303/300 and I like it but I don't know if I would recommend it unconditionally. Like you I don't have the opportunity to listen to a lot of gear.The Cary gives you the option of tube or ss output and a number of upsample rates. If yo... | |
Herbie Hancock on the Grammys Slothman, you probably won't beleive this but many people consider Pink Floyd to be commercial hacks not innovative artists. | |
Westwood One Radio LPs Hi Gaslover, I didn't mean to denigrate your work or that of RTI. So are you saying that these lps would have very high quality sound? | |
Westwood One Radio LPs I think the only way to determine the going price would be to put them up for auction on eBay. I am pretty sure that the sound would not be considered audiophile quality, but the music on them might be priceless. I would pay the guy a reasonable (... | |
What Happened to CD Clubs & Stores to Buy CDs? BMG Music Club is still around and worth checking out. They are at www.bmgmusic.com |