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| Mining classical music gold. @rvpiano -- Glenn Gould is the obvious starting point for Bach keyboard peformances. It's such an ingrained habit that I nearly forgot it. But somehow Mr. Horowitz and I never had a meeting of the minds. | |
| Mining classical music gold. @rvpiano -- thanks for a useful reminder that there’s way more than just "new releases" to consider in classical music. FWIW, it has always been thus. I listen to new recordings and young performers all the time. Sometimes they’re spectacular; m... | |
| What Does 80 Grand Get You Nowadays? My days of big 2-channel gear are decades behind me (all my audio gear now is desktop/home office-based). But a couple weeks ago I went to a big audio show in New Jersey and heard systems costing a great deal of money, many in the $100K to $500K r... | |
| Striking a balance between musicality and resolution @carlos269 sorry, but recording of type isn’t possible for me. Even if I could manage it, the result would be an audio recording of audio reproduction which almost certainly wouldn’t convey that actual sound I get with this system in this room. S... | |
| Striking a balance between musicality and resolution This is an excellent, thought-provoking topic, and one close to my heart. There is indeed a schism between the resolutiion-above-all-else crowd and the musicality-above-all else. FWIW, I’m in the latter camp. The OP’s salient question: "BUT is th... | |
| Metrum Acoustics owners experience (2+ years late in seeing this thread ... hope someone is still reading it) I’ve had my Onyx for a couple years and love it. I use it in my secondary/headphone-only desktop system, and it is ideal for that demanding application (top headphones rev... | |
| Subwoofers and Crossovers I have a JLAudio e110, which has its own 24 dB/octave high- and low-pass filters. However, I never use it, because after years of trying (and failing) to integrate bookshelf speakers with a sub, I finally caved in and bought a gently used Marchand... | |
| “The Secret to Wonderful Sound” I've seen many videos and reviews by Lachlan. Don't agree with every single word, but I trust this guy's ears and motives. IMHO his reviews are thorough, detailed and perceptive. I've written enough reviews to know how hard it is to talk about the... | |
| Interconnect recommendations "According to chatGPT" WTF? | |
| Rear ported Bookshelf speakers- are they more difficult to set up than non-ported? Yes, rear-ported bookshelf speakers are more difficult to set up than sealed/acoustic suspension ones--but this applies far more than nearfield or normall in-room applications where the speakers (stand mounted or otherwise) will be near the rear w... | |
| What going fully Class D has taught me. Maybe I’m just lucky, but the 2 class D amps I bought to use in my space constrained home office both sound very good on a succession of speakers (good 2-ways including Harbeth 30.1s, ATC SCM12 Pro, and KEF 103.2): Wyred 4 Sound ST-500 (ICEPowe... | |
| Adventures With Subwoofers I have had consistent success in adding a sub (first the SVS SB1000, then a JLAudio e110) to my home office’s desktop system. There are 2 keys to success, in my experience: 1 - I use an external crossover with 24 dB/octave high- & low-pass fi... | |
| What to do with pre-owned vinyl? @dwette, exactly right. | |
| What to do with pre-owned vinyl? OP here. It's not sorted out at all. Years later, same problem. I no longer even think about selling these LPs -- to much work. The best of the suggestions here (which I'd forgotten) involves contacting Goodwill, taking a deduction on the whole se... | |
| Giant ads on threads One of my two anti-virus/anti-malware programs is the paid version of Malwarebytes (it saved my bacon many times). MWB has a superb ad-blocker which I use on Firefox, my primary browser. As a result, I haven't been served ads there in years. There... |