tomcy6
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| Is Modern Jazz an Oxymoron? It is hard to put jazz into neat categories. The jazz I like has melody or rhythm or something that I can recognize, maybe described as a song. The musicians can depart from the melody or rhythm and become discordant or whatever, but remain connec... | |
| Audiophile demographics? Most women are not interested in audiophile gear because they are not interested, period. They are not mistreated or excluded by men. They are not beaten by their husbands for touching the stereo.If women were interested in audio but didn't like... | |
| Analog vs digital? No, technology is not going backwards. Digital sound is steadily improving and many prefer it to analog.If you enjoy your turntable more, that’s great. Enjoy!You have been in audio long enough to know that what you are doing here is trying to star... | |
| Looking for a basic streamer without a DAC, preamp, storage and all that The Node 2i has digital outs so it's easy to bypass its DAC. It's a good streamer and provides access to all kinds of services. The BluOs app is a really good basic one. Works flawlessly. I don't think there's much out there for less than $500. | |
| Looking for a basic streamer without a DAC, preamp, storage and all that There are many threads on streamers, streaming, etc. Here's one to get you started:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/streamer-with-no-dac?highlight=Streamer | |
| Diminishing returns? If it's a financial struggle and you're happy with your current player, don't upgrade unless you can listen to the new player in your system and feel it's worth the money.Sound quality improvements are hard to predict and the law of diminishing re... | |
| Modern Bluegrass Try the Steep Canyon Rangers start with and their album the North Carolina Songbook. +1 Really good album! | |
| Holo Audio May DAC so does it sound even better today knowing this???? It's always nice to get recognition of your good taste from the pros. Enjoy! | |
| Great interview- an audiophiles journey on the Audiophiliac Seems like a nice guy and a reasonable audiophile/music lover. Good to see there's normal people in this pursuit. | |
| Raw Vinyl Shortage - Where do we stand? Isn't that the same factory that supplied the industry with the raw material used to make records? I may be technically incorrect on the nomenclature, but I think I am on track with the shortage of materials necessary to make vinyl LPs? As cle... | |
| Rotating (not rolling) Tubes @oldhvymec If he’s not using the phono stages, would it cause any harm to leave those tube positions empty, no tubes? Or how about putting old past-their-prime tubes in the unused positions? You will use up the tubes leaving them on even though th... | |
| Seriously? Why Buy ARC Ref 6SE? seems Benchmark LA4 is a better choice. Maybe take a poll. Most will say they can’t hear diffs. High end dealer conveyed that most can’t hear diffs Good for them and you! Now maybe you can find something better to do with your (and our) time? | |
| Seriously? Why Buy ARC Ref 6SE? seems Benchmark LA4 is a better choice. +1 mahler123 the truth is that there is no discernable sonic difference between any of today’s solid state gear (amps, preamps, CD/DVD players/transports, DACs) - regardless of what the golden ear audio gurus claim! This exemplifies the reason f... | |
| Seriously? Why Buy ARC Ref 6SE? seems Benchmark LA4 is a better choice. As many have said, you have to listen to preamps to decide which one you like. If you can't bring yourself to believe that they can sound different, buy the cheapest one that appeals to you in other ways. | |
| Subwoofer /swarm report.... Congrats! Shows what a little persistence can do. |