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| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? Snopes is a very reliable source for debunking urban legends such as the green marking pen used on CD's. Where's the evidence they are unreliable? ... thought so.Cables can sound different in different systems, but above a certain level of materia... | |
| $10k Speaker Cables?????????????? The world has less that 3,000 billionaires-- no, these products are made for high net-worth professionals and of course, the venerable trust-fund-babies. Pity the fools that actually believe they have improved their system by dropping $10k on one ... | |
| best interconnect at decent price jblselector: You're very correct. Cables do vary in quality and sound characteristics, but beyond a certain level of build quality and material quality lies a sea of craven hype and outright bullsh!t. People often mistake differences for improveme... | |
| White Album Deluxe Anniversary edition People tend to like whatever version of an LP they grew up with, however, GM's work on SPLHCB and TWA is exemplary and restores sounds that were either buried in the mix, or bass that was rolled way off so that the LP would play nice on el cheapo ... | |
| A certain online retailer asked me for a review of Pangea power cords.. Here’s the thing about power cords and interconnects. Beyond a certain level of build and materials quality, they do not get better as you spend more and more. They just sound different. So if you’re assuming that a decent Pangea cord will get kil... | |
| Oppo Ceasing production I've been in this hobby since I was 15 years old-- back in the 1970's-- so what's changed? Money, in the form of disposable income. Wages and salaries for the middle class have been stagnant or in decline since then. Economic mobility in the US ha... | |
| Gonna have to ditch the Soundsmith Carmen II I can tell you from personal experience that Soundsmith stands behind their products. Peter will get to the bottom of this problem for you if you just give him a chance. How many owners of high-end audio companies actually reach out in forums like... | |
| Gonna have to ditch the Soundsmith Carmen II I have two Soundsmith cartridges-- The Hyperion and Paua and neither exhibit the slightest sibilance (other than the occasional bad LP-- and that's hardly the cartridge's fault). I use one on a SOTA belt drive table and the other on a Pioneer dire... | |
| Done buying new vinyl slaw: I suppose I felt that that your zen-like simplicity ;~) deserved some further elaboration. Especially for anyone just getting into vinyl. | |
| Tom Petty: It was an "accidental" OD Does anybody here no how many US citizens are killed by medical error in this country every year? You might be surprised to know that in this unhappy statistic, we're NUMBER 1! With more than 250,000 preventable deaths by error per year. Far more ... | |
| Done buying new vinyl I've been buying vinyl for decades, but went near 100% digital from the late 1980's until about 2010. I have thousands of CDs and several thousand LP's. I continue to buy a mix new music and older stuff.It has always been a mixed bag. When done ri... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Okay, here's my politics-free questions about this product:1-- Can you explain micro-arcing, or, if that term was a typo, just elaborate on the what the problems are that this product is aiming to solve or diminish and what makes it different from... | |
| Why does all new pop music sound the same? All pop music does not sound the same. I have been collecting music for decades across a wide spectrum of styles and types-- including a lot of pop. The sound quality ranges from the normal over-compressed to beautiful and dynamic.I agree with oth... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? In no particular order, and all on vinyl:Lana Del Rey- Lust for LifeDestroyer- KenRobert Plant- Carrying FireThe Clientele- Music for the Age of MiraclesTower of Power- Tower of PowerLate Night Tales- BadBadNotGood collectionQueens of the Stone Ag... | |
| Dude, where's my bass? Oh, lost to stiffened rubber surrounds...who knew? I have a set of Genesis III's and two of their Servo12's-- all of the woofers used foam surrounds and after about 12 years the foam began to fail on many of them-- used a local speaker restoration specialist and he recommended using a light rubber... |