Rock: well recorded bass...60s/70s

Phasecorrect,
I agree with Audiofeil. There must be something wrong with your set up. You dont say what you have, but maybe you are not completely phase corrected!

Macdadtexas,

I see you use Maggie 3.6r, so bass information should not a problem for you.

There is a world of happiness awaiting you if you have not modified the 3.6r xover/wiring and fuse in them from stock. See MUG. Although doing these mods will blow your mind, surely you have a set up issue too as you have a very capable speaker regardless?

Hi The goldenear,
I would agree that the medium for music will change. Who can be bothered with manufacturing CDs, transporting them etc.

I am not sure you can say "It’s strange they never tried to improve analog like they do digital I guess the room for improvement wasn’t there as compared to digital."

They tried to improve tape many times. All sorts of noise reduction and compounds for the tape itself. Lets not forget multihead tape machines,dolby A/B/C/SR/DBX . As for the humble TT they are still fooling around with arms and motors.

Digital is still reasonably young in its development. I think it has come a long way in 25 years or so. Terrible to very good, and probably better than analogue.

Best to leave the audiophile world with all its fog of misinformation and inexperienced opinions and look at cameras or computers to see the level of obvious change. The decoding of the 0s and 1s has become an art. Some people swear by importing an original CD into their computer and then reburn it for better sound on their Hifi.

Every year digital equipment gets more and more refined and cheaper. While CD is in its final throws, listen to a top of the range player from 6 or 7 years ago and compare it to a new more modest priced player (using good equipment!). night and day.

The goldenear,

I had forgotten about the humble 8 track. I have not even seen a tape in a very long time let alone an 8 track.

A friend of mine told me the other day that his 8 year old son went to see his brother and came back and said "wow uncle richard has these amazing big black CDs"!

I suddenly felt old...

Thegoldenear,

no idea about the 8 track. I never heard one either! They were slightly before my time, though my dad had one or was it a 4 track?

A very merry christmas to you.

Haha, I will be thankful.

I wont look through the listings for one then.

I do remember the old 8 track studio recorders with 1 inch and I think 2 inch reels. I seem to remember they were not so bad.

A friend of mine bought a Nakamichi dragon the other day. Anyone remember it? I was wondering about giving it a listen, but thought better of it, I had some socks that needed washing and some paint I needed to watch dry!