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| The Best Sounding Systems can Play Loudly with Low Distortion @helomech "But if all your experience is comprised of playing with mediocre gear (not judged by expense) then I can understand why you’d believe distortion has little relevance." Then what do you consider mediocre? I'm sure we'd all be intere... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Cindy Lauper - True Colors, MFSL Silver Label No 003804 | |
| Best practices to clean the binding posts on your speakers and amps? @corelli ""Unplug and reinsert" Kind of like never brushing your teeth" I bet you put yours in a glass! | |
| Best practices to clean the binding posts on your speakers and amps? @audio-oldie Unplug and reinsert. | |
| Aussie HiFi Market @rpmpam http://www.soundstageaustralia.com/ | |
| The Best Sounding Systems can Play Loudly with Low Distortion @helomech "I’ve assembled more systems in just the last 15 years than most audiophiles ever would over multiple lifetimes." You should check my profile, bunch of stuff in there that I've been playing around with over the last couple of years ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Joni Mitchell The Studio Albums 1968-1979 - Mingus, A & M Records CD | |
| PSA: Skip the Craft reissue of Wes Montgomery's 'Boss Guitar' @audphile1 Yeah, Yarbles, heh, heh. | |
| The Best Sounding Systems can Play Loudly with Low Distortion @helomech "IME this typically happens for one of four reasons: the speakers are non-linear in response, the amp is too low in power to really control the woofers, the speakers are poorly placed in the room creating significant bass nulls, and/o... | |
| PSA: Skip the Craft reissue of Wes Montgomery's 'Boss Guitar' Skip the Craft reissue of Wes Montgomery’s ’Boss Guitar’ @lpluvr "I could hear almost no sound from the right channel while listening to the LP. I moved closer to the right speaker and could hear some sound, but it had a muffled quality." @... | |
| Changing audio beliefs @zavato "Are there any audio beliefs you once held to firmly that you no longer subscribe to? I was an ardent believer in cables. I still believe cables matter but now not so much. Beyond a basic level of competence in the cable and connector,... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Eric Burdon and the Animals - The Twain Shall Meet, MGM Records LP | |
| Two channel home theatre - HDMI versus Spdif for stereo @newton_john Further discovery has revealed to me that if your TV outputs eARC your extractor has to be compatible and you need to use the highest spec HDMI interconnect between the two otherwise it will not decode 7.1 Dolby Atmos or DTS sources... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yeah, I forgot to include the composer. Clifford Curzon/The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch - Beethoven (Emperor) Concerto No 5 in E Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Speakers Corner LP | |
| How many watts do you really need? @kennyc "I think of headroom as an amp that simply loafs along meaning the amp operating at their best sonic level and not strained often leading to increased distortion." Have you ever noticed that solid state amplifiers reach their lowest d... |