whart
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| Listening Skills Part Duex: What are you listening for? Miller- did you think Mike Lavigne's system bettered yours? Forget the money for a minute. Just in terms of overall impressions. Be honest.... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio @Mikekollar- Among all the copies of LZ 1 I have, including the 45 rpm Classic, the second Japanese press is my go to, is not terribly expensive (haven't checked lately) and if you can find a Japanese dealer that has a DHL Express account, a copy ... | |
| Listening Skills Part Duex: What are you listening for? I’ll admit that I said, time, experience and exposure, including exposure to the sound of real instruments informed me, as did the evolution of equipment and my ears. To some extent, we are dependent on the source material, as you appeared to ackn... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio @asvjerry - I had a Diablo 6.0. It was the last of the old school Lambos after Audi bought the company and benefitted from much better QC with the old school elements. The rears were 335 as I remember, and the suspension simply wasn't designed to ... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio I'd try to buy used from an authorized dealer with a warranty if you are equipment shopping. | |
| Listening Skills Part Duex: What are you listening for? My expectations as to reproduced sound have been heightened by improvements in various areas of equipment over the last 40 plus years, and my focus in listening has evolved in part due to that, as well as to exposure, experience and familiarity wi... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio @daydream816- you have identified one of the challenges in this hobby- finding good copies of LPs of music that you like, rather than listening to "audiophile" recordings of music with good sonics that has no appeal to you.Some of this is generati... | |
| Does listening to music increase your IQ? @waytoomuchstuff said: "My brain still enjoys processing complex information. The problem is that there’s just not as much information there for the brain to process."What about teaching at a local college? Is there something you can do outside of... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? @streamerdude-- in my experience (I'm not an MD, let alone a psychiatrist), I always thought shrinks were a little "nuts" themselves and perhaps that's what drew them into the field. Let's talk about "classic Ferraris" through private messaging. I... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? @wokeuptobose said: "The challenge at my develpomental listening stage is to unpack what I am hearing and what is missing compared to each other, and to a sunjective benchmark in my mind of what that piece of music should sound like."If your exper... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? @tomic601 - much of what I learned was through a shared experience. It is good to have a guide, or soul-mate with whom you can share and learn. The real beauty of this hobby/pursuit is to advance one's understanding and share that with others. The... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? @tomic601 - my bet is, you weren't teaching budding engineers how to listen in a technical, engineering sense so much as to ask the question whether X recording v Y recording sounds more like a real trumpet, no?As to "vocabulary" JGH did us a serv... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? I’m going to disagree, not on cars, but on audio. ( I had track time with Hurley Haywood in a CGT when Porsche couldn’t get rid of them; fun, and have lots of car stories but that’s not the point).I want somebody who is not a hi-fi listener to fin... | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? Brent is pretty clear on his website about what "NOS" means and doesn't mean. (There is a tab on his page called "NOS Tube Specifications" that is worth reading). Brent is a good guy and pleasant to deal with. | |
| Are Lamm preamps hard on tubes? Andy cracks me up. He's good, very old school. Love his invoices which are stamped (who uses rubber stamps anymore?) and then initialed by him-- I think he's there all by his lonesome. I'm going to try to visit him once this Covid thing finally su... |