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| How large (or small) is the audiophile market? Just for comparison - Rolex are reputed to make about a million watches a year and to hold 30 percent of the luxury watch market - so market size, about 3.5 million sales per year. I would hazard that there are a lot more luxury watch owners than... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Thanks Jeff - BTW, I was impressed by your home networking system. I recently purchased a pre-owned Cisco switch but unfortunately, it died after two weeks so its back to the drawing board there for me. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @richardbrand - being old enough to remember the launch of CD doesn't make you that old... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @jeffbij re "Even a CD player has safeguards to guard against read errors, it’s called oversampling." CD error correction is based in Cross Interleave Reed Solomon coding. Oversampling is primarily used to allow shallower slope anti-aliasing fil... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear There is a massive hi fi industry in Poland - including J Sikora Turntables and JCAT and Exact in streaming related products. Also in Lithuania Less Loss Cables. In Greece, Kostas Metaxas's intriguing creations including his RTX Tourbillion tape... | |
| Harman To Acquire B&W, Denon, Polk And Marantz From Masimo In $350 Million Deal Harman has done a very good job supporting analogue film - so they have a positive track record in supporting niche interests. Masimo's diversification into audio was an unmitigated disaster - so they can hardly do worse. | |
| I think I have an amp problem @OP Given the age of the amp it is most likely to be a power supply problem. The effect you describe sounds as if the phase of the signal is being temporarily affected which could possibly be a power drop on the supply rail on one bank of push pul... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? Well, one could always make a steel cage to house the 802s - a bit like Roksan did with the original Darius loudspeakers :)) BTW, joking aside, studio monitors usually have a specific orientation unless they are symmetrical such as in a d'apolito... | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? @mylogic you would certainly be thinking outside the boxes if you attempted to turn a set of 800 series B&Ws upside down, seeing as there is no flat surface on the head unit of the speaker. | |
| Denny Dias @drmuso - +1 on everything you say above. I also found his insights about Walter Becker comping his (Becker's) solos fascinating. | |
| B&W 802D1 - How can I tame the brightness? @OP It does sound like you have a room and setup problem - see https://www.stereophile.com/content/bw-802d-loudspeaker-measurements - coupled with the fact that your amplification is not the most synergistic match for 802Ds. BTW, apropos the post... | |
| Denny Dias I wasn't expecting starting this thread to unleash such a flood of armchair psychology. Not all musicians are loquacious attention seekers. Personally, I found the interview full of valuable insights. | |
| Denny Dias I had seen that reported on before but it is great to have confirmation from someone who was actually there. Denny's reference to Quad 57s is also spot on - utterly transparent but you would fry them if used as studio monitors. In a similar vein,... | |
| What bass-litmus-test music do you take to auditions? Chrome by Joe Jackson - track 4 on the abum Volume 4 - the melody of the song is "borrowed" from Sunshower by Kenny Barron. Graham Maby's bassline covers most of two octaves, so it's excellent for identifying crossover problems. Also, the song is ... | |
| Solutions for converting vinyl to 256 DSD? @cleeds - +1 for the Alesis Masterlink. Even though it's old, its converters were top quality at the time as still very good today. I have three of them up in the studio - though I should probably just keep two - with one as a backup. As you know,... |