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| Is there a consensus as to blu ray sound quality? Based on Sony's history of developing and abandoning formats, I'd consider it fiscally risky to spend money on an expensive audiophile Blu-Ray player, unless one is OK with owning a player that becomes obsolete in five years. | |
| Any other vinyl as quiet as ECM? I'll look for some Concord. I'm awaiting delivery of a Joe Pass solo recording on Pablo. | |
| Which tonearm should I keep? Rick, your tenacity cannot be driven simply by a need to be right in the debate over Cartridge Man and Hadcock being two separate companies or one company.What's driving your persistence?Service? Price? Quality?Something else? | |
| Are 90's mid-fi units as good as hi-fi from 80's Neither compare with units from the 70s.In fact, 90s may be worse than 80s.IMO. | |
| Is there a consensus as to blu ray sound quality? I have not read the entire thread, but in response to the title, " Is there a consensus as to blu ray sound quality?", I have to ask if there's a consensus regarding any topic in the audiophile hobby?Sometimes, I think if there was an audiophile a... | |
| Dodd preamp battery plays 40 minutes These situations always puzzle me.Audiomole, why wouldn't you have contacted Dodd Audio first before posting here? | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Bipolar speakers are extremely entertaining, and keep you guessing. | |
| Dodd preamp battery plays 40 minutes Nrenter made an excellent suggestion. | |
| Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment Rhljazz, our home repairs cost substantially less than our car repairs by a fair margin.$500 for a leaking toilet?I've fixed all our leaking toilets myself. Replaced tanks, valves, and complete toilets. The cost of parts is shockingly low compared... | |
| Entry Level Cables Bare wire is best, IMO, but most people choose spades or bananas out of convenience, or to provide a little more contact surface area with binding posts.Having owned both Anti Cables and Canare 4S11, I think the Canare is a little more conducive t... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Oh brother...yet another "Which is best" thread...yawn... | |
| Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment 02-11-09: Ras422This thread is all about personal preferenceActually, I believe this thread is about experiences with reliability of tube amps. The topic has nothing to do with personal preference regarding the sound of tube versus solid state. | |
| verdict on class D amps? Stltrains, based on your response above, you seem to have taken my comment personally. It wasn't. It was a general comment, as I took your quoted comment to be. | |
| verdict on class D amps? 02-11-09: StltrainsWhen it comes to the passion of most audiophile his or her thoughts and believes are right and all else wrong unfortunately nothing will change there minds.Stltrains, there is much truth to what you wrote.On the other hand, I fi... | |
| Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment Husk01, I'll perhaps share more on this topic later, but for now I'm not going to comment on the specifics. |