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| My Final System Build in Words & Pictures Hi Bigtwin. Your rig is amazing. Congratulations! Thank you for this post. Somehow I missed it back in May. Curious about a few things, if you don’t mind… - How far from your back wall are you SLs? What did you use on the wall behind them? Is t... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Two on offer… Lush Life by Billy Strayhorn. Never Gonna Let You Go. Worth watching Rick Beato take it apart. Also fun hearing how this great tune kicked the young, cocky “Jazz Guys” butt… https://youtu.be/ZnRxTW8GxT8?si=8_3g8S0wbZJp6lh4 | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? +1 @uncledemp It is beyond me why (I’ll say most) musicians don’t care about the fidelity of recorded music they listen to. I’ve had musicians over to hear my rig and I get two reactions- 1) Dropped jaws at the realism and soundstage, or 2) “Oh ye... | |
| Pro/Studio Subwoofers Big +1 @erik_squires re Hsu subs for sound quality and size. I have two- one on my AV rig which easily goes to 20 Hz and one for my smaller recording rig with JBL 4401 monitors. The pro subs I’ve seen are generally much bigger and, as mentioned a... | |
| Perplexed on how single driver speakers can cover such a large Hz range +1 about electrostatics. But even though my Sound Labs get down to 30Hz, they can’t play those lower frequencies at a decent volume, so I added a subwoofer. To OPs question, think of the surface of a pond that can have different sized waves cr... | |
| The Symphony of the Audiophile: How Do You Define Enjoyment in Sound? My goal is for the music to sound Real. I want it to sound like the artist is sitting in front of me, or like I’m sitting in the concert venue with them. Sometimes you have the confluence of a great performance, a great recording, and a great syst... | |
| What's the point of reviewing? Audio reviews are like wine reviews. I like to hear what experienced and knowledgeable reviewers have to say about gear (and wine). I’ll never sit in front of some of the high end gear nor drink a bottle of Petrus, but I like to read about it. I’... | |
| Is D-Sonics audio still in business Did some business with DSonic. When you call you talk to Dennis directly. The power-to-dollar ratio is the lowest I’ve seen with DSonic. Build quality excellent. Based on Pascal modules. These are great amps for an AV, home theater setup. | |
| Larry Coryell / Miroslav Vitous Quartet Great stuff on here. Thanks for this post. I’m a Roon user, too. It’s found some good music for me. +1 Jim Hall and Ron Carter. Hall made playing the guitar sound SO easy. Mark of a true master… | |
| Why 432hz Tuning? @frogman Thank you for finding this interesting article. I have a few Mozart piano concerti recorded with Gardiner as part of a Gardiner box set. I will say the older pianoforte sounds thin and odd to my modern Steinway ears. Will give them anothe... | |
| Why 432hz Tuning? The St Louis Symphony has tuned to 442 for many years. FWIW, ChatGPT reports that the move for standardized tuning gained ground in the 20th century. From the 1600s into the 1800s tunings varied widely according to region and different musicia... | |
| Appropriate Apple table for Roon +1@larryincmh Windows machine runs the core. Streaming Tidal and my CDs ripped into iTunes using ALAC. Found out Roon sees Airplay devices and can read iTunes repository. Bought an old first generation Airplay device off eBay for $30, added it to ... | |
| Roon….The Gordon Knot of concierge musical services? Roon has changed how I listen to music - in a good way. When it’s working, which is most of the time, I wouldn’t want to live without it. I’m running the core on a Windows machine, using iTunes as a local repository and Tidal for everything else. ... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? My current picks are any of the Boston Symphony recordings of Shostakovich symphonies by Andris Nelsons. Number 4 is my favorite. Stunning recording quality. You can hear the room. And they are great imaging tests because Shostakovich liked to se... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update Didn’t follow this. But it sounds like no one was the wiser until a some guy makes a YouTube video. Up to that point, no one said, “Hmmm. Ya know, I think this is really a digital master.” 🤔 |