yoyoyaya
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| I heard a costly system from Esoteric. For what it's worth, I have experience of all the Esoteric CD player lines from the Grandioso downwards. They are superb sounding machines. The current XD models which have the newer Atlas transport mechanism and the Master Sound Discrete DAC are ... | |
| I heard a costly system from Esoteric. jackhifiguy - did you actually listen to the system with speakers? | |
| Does carpet deaden the sound too much? Recording studios have more reflective construction because they are aiming to create a natural reverb that adds dimensionality to the sounds of instruments and helps them gel together in a mix. Recording studio control rooms are designed complet... | |
| I heard a costly system from Esoteric. @jackhifiguy. I really don't see the point of this exercise. The amplifier is designed to drive loudspeakers and primarily to be listened to in that configuration. No one in their right mind would buy an expensive integrated amplifier to listen p... | |
| Turntable - The Next Step Above the Rega P3, as a number of posters have suggested, Clearaudio and Technics are very strong performers in the middle of the market. The Technics has great drive and pace. The comparable Clearaudios are more refined tonally. As regards Linn,... | |
| Looks like PS Audio has a hit on their hands with the new speaker Whatever about the sound (to be determined), I find the rounded bottom cognatively dissonant. One expects a curve to be on the top of an object. Imagine a neoclassical building where the romanesque windows were upside down. Also, I really can't s... | |
| How to make small room sound bigger Having a small room myself, one has to accept that there are limitations to how "big" the room can sound. And as has been observed above, lots of reflections will make the room sound bigger but not better. Really, as with any room, a judicious us... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? I don't want to prolong this in an unnecessary tit for tat but I do feel compelled to respond on three points. 1. I said that I have listened to a "good few recordings i.e. many - not a "few recordings". Perhaps I was being too understated in my ... | |
| Speaker system Get a used PA system. I will sound rubbish but at least it will be loud and it will sound better than driving a small hi fi system to destruction - and it will last longer. | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? @wolf_garcia. I am simply reflecting my own experience of my interactions with other musicians over a period of over forty years. Yes I did read your post - is your comment about musicians and money not a generalisation in itself? As it happens ... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? Yinylvalet - nice to meet you too. I play guitar, bass and drums left handed so needless to say Sir Paul is right up there on my list of all time greats - as a musician and songwriter! | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? vinylvalet, I agree entirely with you. I am also a songwriter/musician and part time recording engineer. Thankfully, I can switch off the deconstructive part of my musical brain when I'm listening to the hi fi. Because I spend so much time writin... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? Musicians and recording engineers tend to listen to music deconstructively. It's a quite different way of listening which doesn't put a premium on a lot of qualities valued by audiophiles. That plus the fact that music as a profession is, with exc... | |
| What stereo equipment do respected musicians listen to? The cobbler's children's shoes. | |
| High Fidelity Cables? @lowrider57 - it relates to an earlier post slagging off Ansuz's pricing. However, seeing as HFC's cable are/were in the upper end of pricing, I think it's reasonably on topic. |