zaikesman
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| Ayre V-5x vs. McCormack DNA 225 Fplanner2000: I have seen your posts on the DNA-500 in the archives, and you certainly haven't been shy about praising it wherever you can. My observation about the tonal balance isn't necessarily a knock -- or not until I can satisfy myself which... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Tom:"it is patently apparent that most here do not even differentiate between the very different nature of wow or flutter components of these speed variations. Or what ramifications are involved with either of those variation types, as regards our... | |
| New Beatles Box Sets Thanks, but like I said, those are exactly the LPs of which the regular American Apple versions don't want for much in the way of sonics, particularly the former. It's more the Capitol stuff that would interest me if a superior-sounding CD version... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Johnnantais:"types of audiophile: those who love the equipment for the music they can produce, placing the music/software first, are called "melomane"; and those who love the equipment for the detail/information it can extract, thus focusing on th... | |
| Ayre V-5x vs. McCormack DNA 225 Excuse me for not letting a sleeping thread lie, but I reread my "review" of the DNA-125 with a smirk just now, because I recently got a DNA-500. Wake up!First off, back then I was perplexed by the review descriptions of the 225 as having a "lean ... | |
| Audience Au24 Bi-wire or w/Jumper with N803 My Au24 is single-wire and my speakers aren't biwire-capable, so I can't answer your question directly. However, if I were in your shoes and already owned the single-wire cabling and speakers in your question, I'd make the exact comparison you pro... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Onhwy61: Based on my experience with him on Audiogon over the years, IMO Herman wouldn't post a troll anymore than you or I would. Oftentimes discussing and writing about stuff also serves as a way to think it through for yourself -- at least that... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need If you carry the conservative argument to its logical limit, we should not be able to gain the benefit of enjoyment of any copyrighted music without paying for it directly or indirectly. Are the kids in the park break-dancing to a boombox and enci... | |
| Mystery Names On the Back of My Favoraite Albums Onhwy61: I can't say I know anything about them as people -- I normally don't read music biographies and such -- but I would never have considered these relatively well-known producers to be merely "footnotes" in recorded music history. However, i... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Hey, at least people have stopped posting inviting you to please send them your orphaned CDs ;^) | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? "Makes me wonder what we're hearing though"IMO, either you're...1) Not hearing what you expect to hear, based on extensive personal experience with the records tested2) Hearing what there is to hear, based on the fact that you just played the reco... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Whether that right (to buy, copy, sell the original and retain the copy) exists or not, or whether it's even been addressed or determined in the law, there is still a fundamental practical difference between the two scenarios (selling the copy or ... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? "...in the TT subject and from the objective approach it is a fact that we can only 'work' with the 'numbers' that are on hand: there are no others!"There could be others, they're just not taken or not published. But I presume there's no technical... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need Yes Herman, but at least she'll be dead before you ;^) | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Raul: I don't want to beat, strangle, shoot, drown, and blow up a dead horse, BUT...> I don't excpect you to be familiar with my collected works on Audiogon, but anyone who's read me around here over the years could tell you that I am hardly a ... |