twoleftears
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| Any Audiophile recording of The Planets? Avoid: John Eliot Gardner on DG. | |
| The eternal quandary From an epistemological point of view, the whole field of audio reproduction is fraught with a myriad of problems. Actually, it's a miracle that we can agree about anything! From the recording venue, the position of the microphones in the hall, th... | |
| An Audiophile's journey RWW--this is an old, tired topic that doesn't need to be rehearsed again here. And SNS has set the record straight.My earlier post was meant as a comment on the vicissitudes of audio enthusiasms, not as a comment on the intrinsic merits (though ma... | |
| The latest flavour of the month speaker Will the Spectron III (right now, panegyrics everywhere) go the way of the Bel Canto, or will it survive and thrive? What do you think? | |
| An Audiophile's journey My take on the popularity of SETs was that it was driven, at least in part, by the first several years of digital recording (whether that recording ended up on LP or CD is beside the point). The first several years of DDD were atrocious: digititis... | |
| The eternal quandary John Atkinson and others have demonstrated that a high percentage of "popular" recordings issued nowadays are highly compressed. This is the work of the mixing/mastering engineer, and this is how that person wanted them to sound and to be released... | |
| The eternal quandary Mike--I totally agree, but as you say, it's a mental trick that may be easier for some of us than others. Even if one starts out a session in mental mode #2, something can happen that jolts you out of it. That's the experience that started this th... | |
| 2 channel cd player xlr $2000-&3000 used or.... At the risk of sounding like a broken record (er, sorry): Bryston BCD-1. XLR outs, right in your price range, superlative sound... | |
| What's too hot? operating temp Bryston amp God to the Bryston owners' site on AudioCircle. There have been threads on precisely this topic. | |
| The eternal quandary Jimjoyce--I'm afraid that I'm going to have to respectfully disagree.As one moves up from boom-box to mid-level system, I would think the sound should steadily improve. But there has to be a point, an "elbow", somewhere on this line where, as the ... | |
| Time to change. But to what? Is there a reason one or other of the bigger Ushers isn't on the list? | |
| Looking for a new CD player. Marantz SA-8001 used. | |
| Starter speaker cable for N804s and MF A5 Good pun! LOL. Flushes out / fleshes out... What with them being *aqueous* cables... | |
| The eternal quandary Thanks, Newbee, for the reassurance--I'm sure you're right. The problem is aggravated somewhat because beyond getting the basics right (timbre, etc.) I do enjoy a good dimensional soundstage with good imaging within it.Lately I've been noticing so... | |
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