zaikesman
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| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Onhwy61 makes what I suspect is a very valid point about evolving audiophile perceptions regarding the desirability of 'accuracy'. It is of course not a new observation, and whether it's one that is causally, or only tangetially, related to the po... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... But Sean...OK, you've got me on the price of the CD player. I should have said that its specs were nothing to get upset about at any price.I'm not being cute when I say that. Outside of its quite mild frequency response deviations, I wouldn't be s... | |
| What does Flat Earth mean in audio circles? Why is it not surprising that it took a man of your username to set the rest of us straight on this issue? :-) I personally never use the term 'PRAT', and now I know why I don't use 'Flat Earther' either...and why a guy who writes about 'getting n... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Sean: Although I think you know that I would not buy a piece of gear based on specs, and I am sure you wouldn't either, I do want to join you in commending Stereophile for being just about last man standing when it comes to publishing original tes... | |
| What does Flat Earth mean in audio circles? Hey, we just aim to make Tom's life a little bit easier... ;^)Seriously though, there have been many occassions you wouldn't know about where I have declined to post on thread simply because you already did so, and said everything I thought was wo... | |
| Easier maintenance ARCVT100mkII or VTL mb125 All of the above notwithstanding, I'm pretty sure the biggest deciding difference between your contenders will be sound, not maintainance. Search the Audiogon archives for more - related questions have been asked before. | |
| Is heavy vinyl worth it? Yes Pbb, I agree that the 'vinyl club' mentality is just too too precious and deserves a roll of the eyes. (BTW, nice album choices.)I make no pretense of my reasons for loving records: 1) the availability of a galaxy of used product, much of it n... | |
| What does Flat Earth mean in audio circles? 'Flat Earther' *should* mean someone who believes what their senses tell them. What the term actually *does* mean, in relation to audio, seems to have been a little more open to interpretation, as evidenced by the various responses above. FWIW, my... | |
| Kill Bill Soundtrack FYI: The Cher single of "Bang Bang" came out in '66. Nancy's version was included on her "How Does That Grab You?" LP from that same year, but wasn't released as a 45. | |
| Is heavy vinyl worth it? Plain language: It seems to me as if you were trying to 'get a rise' among the vinyl crowd with your first post (commonly called 'trolling' - and this is a subject area in which you've been known to enjoy ruffling some feathers before), and when n... | |
| Easier maintenance ARCVT100mkII or VTL mb125 I own the VTL MB-185's. Biasing of the output tubes is accomplished via individual trimpots accessible through the top panel once the tube cage is removed, and adjusted using a narrow flathead screwdriver. Each trimpot is associated with its own m... | |
| Which DAC? The MSB Link 24/96 'too bright and mechanical'? The one I owned for a while was the Gold Link version, with upgraded parts and dual-differential DAC's, but still, my objection to this converter had a lot to do with its rolled-off, euphonized sound... | |
| Differences in CD players? Am I crazy? For what it's worth, I've observed non-audiophiles be able to quickly hear changes among mid-fi CD players auditioned through mid-fi systems - even when they weren't expecting to be able to do so - and also other listeners who professed they could... | |
| Jump Factor Gee Sean, keeping us in suspenders are ya? | |
| Electro-Magnetic storm to hit Earth today. I've heard of sunspots - but sunspooge? :-) |