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| Monitor users, isolation? You want it rigidly coupled to a high mass stand. The more the speaker is allowed to move about the worse it will sound. A flimsy stand or soft material between speaker and stand is not good. A stand like a Sound Anchor will make a HUGE difference... | |
| Blue Note reissues as an investment? Collectibles are generally not a good investment. Want to buy some Beanie Babies?Look at something very collectible like the Mobile Fidelity boxed set of the Beatles. It retailed for around $300Historically you can double your money in the stock m... | |
| I just don't get PC Audio Clio, how were you listening to iTunes? Mac or PC.Everybody agrees that Itunes on a PC sounds like crap. | |
| Jump in now or wait? Steve, I see what you are saying. Once it's pushed down the pipe no telling what can happen to it.Tiger, while it would be nice to believe that Blu-Ray audio would be embraced, history tells us otherwise. SACD and DVD-A are effectively dead.. The ... | |
| Jump in now or wait? I still don't get it. I'm not saying you are wrong, but I've been involved with electronics and computers for a long time and this is news to me. Perhaps I don't understand what you mean but it seems to me that if computers generated errors readin... | |
| Jump in now or wait? Steve, I've never heard the mention of error correction on playback. Are you saying my computer might not be reading the hard drive correctly and needs error correction? | |
| Jump in now or wait? Wireless is correct. The PC as a source, the whole arena of digital playback for that matter, is mature enough that there will be no huge improvements. This is not first generation stuff, it is a variation on technology that has existed for over 2... | |
| Johnny Cash - Get Back Reissues - Anyone heard em? I have "Now Here's Johnny" and the sound quality is so poor I never considered buying any of the others. Think cheap transistor radio. | |
| loudness level? The volume from the vinyl is determined by the output of the cartridge and the gain of the phono stage. It is highly unlikely that for a given combo it would exactly match the output of a given CD player. Depending on the equipment involved the vi... | |
| Advice from vinyl types on a good CD player Altmann Attraction DAC and either a transport or computer. | |
| Need some advice on flatening wrapped records. The link is good. Try 14x14 1/4 inch tempered glass and a clean record. Heat the oven to just warm (150F or so) and put in the sandwich. Turn off the oven and let it cool.You can correct for slight warps of the slowly undulating kind but very shar... | |
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| Best value phono $1-1.5k Used?Pass Alephono | |
| What am I hearing There is a track on Ginger Baker's "Going Back Home" (I think #3) where Bill Frisell's guitar sounds likes it's coming from way off to the right and way in front of the speakers. I have a door in to the room near there and it sounds like he is out... |