mapman
Responses from mapman
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? "Ultimately, what's the difference between Gwyneth Paltrow blogging about the 16 different products she puts on her face to let her natural beauty shine and a group of audiophiles describing ultra high end footers and how it let's them hear the mu... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Frog,I have two teenagers.There is truth to what you say about "kids" these days, but its really a moot point.Times do change, but basic truths do not. Knowing the differences and adapting takes time. Same true when I was a kid. My generation did ... | |
| Are music servers the future? Actually to be clear, multimedia servers (which includes music server functionality and other forms of media) is the wave of both present and future to ride I would say.Music servers alone have limited appeal for most compared to multimedia. Multi... | |
| Are music servers the future? One important thing to realize about the latest generation of music servers is that they have made considerable progress in enriching ones listening experience with information (referred to as "metadata"), similar to how it used to be with vinyl, ... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Benchmark. | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? "Most people wworry more about sound quality and features, and less about "build quality"."Whoops, forgot to say they also care about aesthetics. Build quality may factor into that aspect of it as well. | |
| Are music servers the future? "But sound is the only truth."I'll buy that. Or better yet, what we hear is the only real truth with this stuff. Unfortunately, nobody else can hear what each of us hears. So there you go...... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Most people wworry more about sound quality and features, and less about "build quality".If it sounds good and does what is needed, and lasts a long time, then that infers sufficient build quality to deliver the performance intended.Not that build... | |
| Newbie question re: USB quality In line with comments above, USB is not likely to be an issue for sound quality in the OPs particular case.. | |
| Are music servers the future? THere are many reasons why the same digital recording in multiple formats could sound different. Beyond the usual hardware related reasons why any two sources might sound different, with digital throw any possible number of software related factor... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? +1 Los Lobos | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? Obviously, like most industries with a long history,there are a lot of quality companies and people in high end audio.Then there are the pure charlatans and everything in between.It is what it is, not that much different really than most things. | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Best Buy faces a lot of competition these days. A common business strategy to combat that is focus on service and quality. With the right approach a chain like Best Buy offering very good audio products that one can actually hear and audition befo... | |
| Top brand speakers "I am Always honest and things are exactly as I said they are."Famous last words..... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? SAles trend data for key "high end audio" companies would be a good indicator of where its heading. I'd look for units sold more so than revenue. Never seen anything like this though. Pure "High End Audio" operates under the radar of the financial... |