psychicanimal
Responses from psychicanimal
| I could not believe it I can't believe it either, because my rega planar 3 / Goldring 1042 is about equal in sound to my $1000 CD setup, with neither being a clear winner.Get a real TT and your analog will outperform the digital. Work on noise control and the digital wi... | |
| I could not believe it Anyone who thinks that CD performance, or even SACD/DVDA performance, can come close to vinyl is just off their rocker. The more vinyl you listen to, the harder it is to listen to CD.Both formats have strengths and weaknesses. As the inherent weak... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? My goal is to have both analog and digital rigs sound as close to each other as possible. I've done it. People say my LPs sound like CDs and the CDs like LPs. Although I have three times more albums than CDs the high cost of used LPs readily avail... | |
| what is good sound ? Good Sound Club | |
| Acoustic TReatments - What, How much, & Where? There is a thread somewhere here that describes the DIY version of the Sylines. It's simple but tedious. | |
| Acoustic TReatments - What, How much, & Where? I use test CDs to give me an idea of what's going on. For the final details I use listening tests and intuition. | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System In blind test I would bet anything you could not pic Radio shack spoole wire form the The crazy 1K plus cables. Any money. Snake oil is snake oil. I dont need to brag on spending 5k on wire. To many on this site do.Now, that's quite a generalizati... | |
| Backing out of audiophilism for now Dewald, you need to go dancing. And I don't mean going to the meat markets. If you don't know (I think you don't) you should take lessons. Enjoy the *physical* part of music. Where I work there's about six hundred people--most of them women--and t... | |
| Acoustic TReatments - What, How much, & Where? XLO CD is good--also the Granite Audio bass CD. | |
| Acoustic TReatments - What, How much, & Where? I wrote a post for the Rives forum this morning--and the server lost it--along w/ my stream of thought!!!Rives, the Marantz Esotec Ma-5 class A monoblocks are keepers. The Ma-5's have the magic holographic, harmonic presentation & decay of tub... | |
| Comparing some mid-line interconnects - thoughts? Short list: VenHaus Pulsar, Ridge Street Audio Midnight Silver Edition. You pick: silver or copper. Thereare two approaches, depending on the quality of power going to your DAC & transport. I can use silver in my system; most systems will tran... | |
| Backing out of audiophilism for now Seems like you need one of my *prescriptions*. | |
| Can the sound of SS amp deteriorate over time?? I also feel that providing your SS equipment with purified electricity provided by a good AC line conditioner and good power chords can't hurt.Like drinking pure water?*** | |
| Which cable is most important to spend money on... >>Everything is system dependent<< I've learned through experience that phrase is a cliché used to justifiy not so good stuff/choices...or stuff/choices that compensate idiosyncracies/biases.Robert Ridgestreet has designed his power co... | |
| Which cable is most important to spend money on... Well, Robert Ridgestreet's answer is theoretically correct. They day he can implement it (that is, marketing) for the average audiophile he'll become a millionaire! In the real world budget where I live, working on power delivery/noise control usi... |