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| Tom Martin's Listening Room Well, this all looks very expensive. As some of you know, I took an alternative and far less expensive route. For the rest: My wife and I bought an 1865 4.5 story brick townhouse in Newburgh, NY. It had been abandoned for 21 years and was extre... | |
| Favorite Tribute Albums? @stuartk ”How often does a cover truly equal an original performance, let alone surpass it? Not that often, to my ears.” Well, Sting would disagree with you. He claims that Eva Cassidy’s “Fields of Gold” is far superior to his. Same with Dyl... | |
| Favorite Tribute Albums? I have three tribute records, to - Karen Dalton, on vinyl - Gram Parsons, on CD - Laura Nyro, on CD I find it odd that Bette Midler does not appear on the Laura Nyro CD. Bette was good friends with Laura and got verklempt when she introduced ... | |
| Will AI. Minimize the Design differences of audio @mopsauce ”…..asking AI the correct question in the first place.” I have been starting to use ai to do 3/4 of my research (always ask it to provide the sources that it is using for its reply so that you can confirm that it didn’t “just make som... | |
| "audiophiles listen to their equipment" @mahgister yes. | |
| Will AI. Minimize the Design differences of audio @spenav You are claiming that it’s no better than a search engine. I - and colleagues who write - absolutely disagree. It’s hugely superior. I won’t spend the time here explaining why: it’s an audio forum and you for whatever reason are jus... | |
| Will AI. Minimize the Design differences of audio @spenav ”Well, honestly, AI power is not its ability to search the world in second. Any good search engine can do that nowadays…” Not so. I use AI extensively for research for my writing. It finds stuff and more stuff, much more stuff, an... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? These are the critical variables, with what mine sell for approximately (not anywhere near what I really paid) at retail: - cartridge - $9,900 - tonearm - $900 - table - 2,400 - phono stage - $900 - tubes for phono stage - $1,200 TOTAL: $15,... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? Well, contrary to what others have posted, I understand that many phono stage manufacturers ship their units with crappy stock tubes. The reason? They know that tube sound and quality is relatively subjective, that people pay top $ for some tubes ... | |
| Matching a amplifier to speakers For what it is worth: My Futtermans are notoriously fussy about load. Since I am married to the Futtermans, speaker choice comes second: find a pair that matches up to the Futtermans. Except that I already owned the Altec 694Cs. Which, coinci... | |
| Vinyl Care I clean as little as possible. Pull them out of the sleeve, play, put them right back in. Keep them clean in the first place. When that fails, I use the basic VPI. I bought mine decades ago now for $300 or so. | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback SWS applies. synergy-weakest link-subjectivity. If I had to pick one: the cartridge. It touches the groove. You need to preserve your collection. There will be no consensus. | |
| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? Not untrue. | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! You probably know this but just in case and just a suggestion: check with the driver manufacturer’s specs on the cabinet’s internal volume? | |
| What are the most balanced relatively neutral cartridges at each price level ? At level 2, $1-3K, I have a Koetsu At level 4, $5K+, I have a Koetsu Onyx and a Koetsu Leopard. Koetsu is not known for its neutrality, but of the three, the Leopard is most neutral. |