learsfool
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| Does 'Accuracy' Matter or exist ? Frogman, you have once again contributed a fantastic post. The thing I find ironic here is that quite often those audiophiles that claim to be searching for "accuracy" are often the very same ones that get completely caught up in specs and measure... | |
| Getting New Panasonic ST30 Plasma TV My calibration I think cost somewhere in the $200 range, it was mostly for the guy's time, as it did take quite a while. I could now do it myself, but I would say that it was a very good value, as I would not have known how to go about it previous... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? LOL, Bryon - nice one, bringing out Bierce! | |
| Getting New Panasonic ST30 Plasma TV You will love your plasma - I agree with those saying dial down the brightness. I had mine professionally calibrated after the recommended burn-in period and that is exactly what the guy did. I took good notes so I can do it myself in the future. ... | |
| Do all CD players benefit from burn in? I have usually seen the figure of 50 hours quoted for CD players, which was about right for mine. Things like tubes will take a little longer, more like the 200 hour figure. | |
| advice about analogue source If you like the sound of your Rega, the P9 is a really great table. | |
| Removing power conditioner... While I found two power conditioners I tried detrimental to the sound of my system, I would strongly recommend that anyone plug into a surge protector, especially if you live in an area with frequent storms. I think anyone on this site has more th... | |
| Worst record ever? The Shatner/Nimoy things are hilarious - I would add Nimoy's If I Had A Hammer to the others mentioned. They were, of course, done tongue-in-cheek. There is an album out there somewhere called Golden Throats, or something like that, that has I thi... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Duke, unfortunately that seems to be a dead link. | |
| The downward spiral..... If we define "progress" as the development of new technologies, then of course there has been progress. However, if we are judging the new technologies on whether or not they actually do sound better than the older ones, then no, there has been ve... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Hi Rgs92 - I do not own an SACD player, so my experience with them is limited - a couple of friends of mine have one, but they live pretty far away and like me, mostly listen to vinyl anyway. Certainly the quality of SACD is higher than redbook, a... | |
| are audiophiles different than non audiophiles ? Frogman could not have stated the case better. As a professional musician myself, I agree with 100% of his post. There are indeed more audiophiles among musicians than in any other profession, as a percentage, especially when we are talking about ... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? Thank you Bryon and Elizabeth for excellent posts. I am constantly amazed at how many audiophiles will yabber on about the quality of this or that tube, or the difference between this tweeter and that one, but then cannot tell the difference betwe... | |
| A New Believer I'm definitely with Al on this one - granted that there are differences, the prices of wire are truly absurd compared to the amount of the audible difference made. I agree with Elizabeth; wire should constitute no more than 5% of the entire system... | |
| listening in the dark? While I do not limit my listening to the dark, it is most certainly true that depriving yourself of one of your five senses heightens the others. |