agrippa
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| Best song for immediate impact when presenting or testing? I don’t like to play for immediate impact. That is cheap and tawdry and right off the bat encourages people in all the basest aspects of listening. Of course this is what everyone does in demo’s. Then they wonder why there are no women audiophiles... | |
| Who Here Makes Their Own Power Cables? I make my own power and speaker cables, but I can’t be bothered with soldering so interconnects I buy. Of course I spent years and barrelfulls of money chasing the perfect boutique cables, but after my audiophilia nervosa disappeared some years ag... | |
| Luxman Integrated - What do they sound like My own remark was also the result of reading a review of the original L-550AX where measurements were made. I can’t for the life of me remember the site, but I do remember they stated an output of 78W when driven to the max.It would have been nice... | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl CD always sounds so cold and grittyOnly if the CD is bad, the player is bad, or both. | |
| Does a cheap cd transport create poor digital copies? " Hey, anyone know why CD copies can sometimes sound better than the original or is that an old wives tale? "Yes. See above. | |
| Does a cheap cd transport create poor digital copies? "I suspect a CD can be read poorly intruducing errors"The point of using a program like EAC or DBPoweramp is that, if you choose, error won’t be accepted. If the disc can be read, a perfect copy will be made. If it can’t be read, a copy will only ... | |
| Luxman Integrated - What do they sound like My amp is a Luxman L-550AXII, but sadly I’m unsure how to explain the differences between it and the many other amps I’ve owned. Fortunately there’s no shortage of reviews to be had by googling, all of which are pretty much raves.Suffice it to say... | |
| Does a cheap cd transport create poor digital copies? EAC and DBPoweramp both seconded.As long as the disc can actually be read, the copy will be perfect. The copy can in fact end up being better than the original, if the latter originates from the end of the run of a stamper.A pressing plant will of... | |
| Any experience with Tannoy loudspeakers? My Legacy Eatons place the performers right in my living room and provide a sense of presence and engagement like few other speakers I've ever heard and none anywhere near them in price. Powered by a Luxman L-550AXII the bass is both ample and ph... | |
| Luxman L-509X for ATC SCM 19v2/40v2, thinking integrated to start with I’m unsure if you misunderstood me or not....You mentioned in the OP that you " like to listen to music at low to normal levels " and I merely pointed out that in order to achieve engaging and dynamic sound at low sound levels speakers with such a... | |
| Yamaha SACD players The Yamaha CD-S2100 sounds great and is built like a tank. Great choice for CD and SACD both. Then again, after auditioning it and the Denon DCD-2500NE some months ago, I ended up with the latter. The race was very close, but for me the Denon ... | |
| Luxman L-509X for ATC SCM 19v2/40v2, thinking integrated to start with With a sensitivity of 85dB your current speakers will never sound properly alive at low volume. That's just the nature of low-sensitivity speakers. Been there, tried it (with an array of different amps) and failed utterly.The only way to achieve... | |
| Vinyl Sleeves and Jackets I replace plain paper inners with poly/paper, be it MoFi or something else. I've never understood the upside of MoFi sleeves over regular, decent quality poly/paper sleeves however.Outer sleeves I've never used. My oldest records (35+ years) can... | |
| What is the best sound system you ever heard? Alchemist The Pre & The Mono (x 2) amplification, Alchemist Forseti CD transport & DAC, Nottingham Analogue Mentor turntable, Ruark Excalibur speakers.That was 20 or so years ago of course, so how it would sound today I don’t know. Still, ... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important Is this actually a controversial point of view? I don't think I know anyone who thinks that ultra-precise overhang alignment isn't pretty much the least critical of all factors involved in getting one's vinyl set-up sounding as good as possible. |