kahlenz
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| Step up from Bluesound Vault 2, next move? I suspect you may have a hard time discerning an audio difference between the Bluesound (as a transport) and a more expensive piece of equipment. A few years ago I placed a Bluesound Node (first edition with the weird angles) in my system, and ran... | |
| Big speakers in small room at moderate volume levels I'm not sure what "full" sound is. More bass? Wide dispersion? Small monitors with well integrated subs can sound plenty "full". Timing issues regarding when the sound pressure hits your ears are a tough argument for me to swallow. Separate s... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I agree about Tidal. I find myself listening to it most of the time. I am blessed that I can't tell the difference between the same digital file presented to my DAC by different digital sources.cycles2: your comments regarding artists is smack ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I'm not sure about more expensive systems necessarily sounding better. In fact, my experience has been quite different.I don't get out much, but I have heard some super high end systems in people's homes. They generally are grouped into two categ... | |
| Big speakers in small room at moderate volume levels Keep what you have and get a small sub, or get two (even better). Your room is too small to worry about getting the system to be loud enough. You will, for the most part, be listening "near field", so the LS50s will be perfect; plenty of sound ... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming For a while I was doing Room/Tidal, but I found no motivation to spend time burning CDs. I had some that I had burned previously, and Roon picked them up just fine, but I found myself just going straight to Tidal 90 percent of the time. So now I’m... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? If, indeed, I was put in the position of only being allowed to keep 5 record albums, I would think that most all of the contributors collections would be adequately satisfying. I suspect that the limitation of recorded music would encourage me to... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Man, the hipsters are into pro audio. They'll go direct from their phones to a pair of active studio monitors. The extra cool kids have a two channel audio interface or a small mixing board so they can plug in their turntables, CD players, plays... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Somebody mentioned "Exile on Main Street". My remastered digital copy (2010, Universal Republic records B0014130-02) sounds harsh on my system, my old record from '72 sounds perfect. Who knows? | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? The way I see it, a record album was originally a cardboard book with paper sleeves and a bunch of 78s in it. A "record" was just a single 78. So as far as I'm concerned, an album can be a boxed set! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slaw: Technics SL1200 GR, stock arm. I can give you a full report, but the cheap Merlot got the better of me tonight. | |
| I like my system flat, no tone controls, no eq..........what is your preference, and why. Back in the day I couldn’t wait to bypass the tone controls on my Dynaco Pas 3x. All the cool people did it (yes, it did sound better on most records).I use equalization extensively with my pro audio gear (API 5500 for analog, but there are excell... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? HiFi News Analog Test LP. Finally getting around to dialing in my Hana SL. | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? Complete Works of Debussy (new DG version)Beethoven String Quartets (Tackacs)Coltrane Live at the Village VanguardGlen Gould Goldberg Variations (1955 version)Bach Mass in B minor (2012 Herreweghe) | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD I have already stated my opinion on vinyl vs. digital, in short, they both have their place. Reading through this thread, however, I gather some people either have a strange emotional connection with their media or are using this forum to exercis... |