goatwuss
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| Am I Bad Listener? ITball,You are right on for the most part. Speakers, and their interaction with the acoustic environment (room) accounts for 95% of the sound you hear, good or bad, assuming that the rest of the components are at least mid-level quality.Tubes vs. ... | |
| Why are LCDs more popular than plasma? I completely agree with the original poster. Plasma's image quality is so much better than LCD (and DLP) that there is hardly even a discussion. Colors are so much more vivid, contrast is so much better, blacks. If you want that "looking through a... | |
| McIntosh MC275 vs Bat VK-60: Anyone compared? Thanks much for the replies, especially considering they are directly on topic with real experiences.It sounds like aside from serice related issues and "environmental" concerns, both the bat and the mac are high quality amps. Likely, I'll start w... | |
| McIntosh MC275 vs Bat VK-60: Anyone compared? Maybe you could elaborate on what you mean by finicky? By costly, do you just mean that it is expensive to re tube them? | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER Isn't it illegal to rip CDs and then sell them? | |
| Replacing Thiel 2.2's, Need Monitor Suggestions Used quad 22L, perfect match, very transparent and open sounding, slim floorstander, looks nice | |
| Replace the Supratek Chardonnay with Accuphase? What are the sonic faults that you hear with the Chardonnay? | |
| B&W Name Change Theory "IT IS A CAR, GET OVER IT!"My car stereo is almost as fun to listen to as my home stereo, granted I've spent a decent amount of cash and time/work on it.It seems that the vast majority of audiophiles completely dismiss the possibility of enjoying ... | |
| the smoothest sounding speaker Ariel 20Ts are incredibly smooth, and also detailed and dynamic. Definitely worth a listen at the 20-something pricepoint. I heard them with monster mac amps and they were smooth as butter | |
| Cartridge recommendations VPI Scoutmaster Both Benz and Dynavector match up with VPI very well. Others have reported good results with Shelter, though theoretically they are not as good a match. | |
| Wilson Benesch Discovery VS Proac D38 The WB Discoveries sound like "hifi" to me. They do the audiophile checklist well, but for me, they just aren't satisfying to listen to. | |
| Ethics: To what degree? So come on, we all want to know. Who are they? | |
| Blu Ray PlayStation 3 upconvert standard def DVD? The best resource for Standard def DVD performance is hometheaterhifiThey have objective benchmarks of nearly every player.The ps3 does not rate too well for SD DVD. Here is the review: http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=... | |
| Sim Moon Eclipse does it really sound cold &hard Cool is to Cold+sterile as warm is to dead. On the thin side of neutral.That Sim CDP is excellent, not on the cool side. Very neutral and easy to listen to. You'd like it if you're going for neutral.Sim preamps on the other hand, I find cold sound... | |
| Line Arrays - Competitive with best dynanics, ESL? Vladimir - Thank you for the Selah recommendation. Rick Craig's designs look very good. Like I mentioned, though, I've already put a deposit on a pair of GR Research LS6 produced by AV123. http://av123forum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13909... |