moonwatcher
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| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? @ddafoe +1 on the Reed Instruments. Is $180 "expensive"? Not if you care about your hearing. That’s cheaper than many spend on a decent set of RCA interconnects. The problem with many of these phone apps is that you have no way of knowing if they... | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? @macg19 Yes, tinnitus is "associated" with hearing loss, but there are other schools of thought as well. My hearing is typical for most 65 year olds, rolling off at 12KHz. Yet, like many, my tinnitus seems to manifest itself as a continuous sine... | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? My experience with a few Android SPL meter apps was that they were garbage. Not accurate at all. Buy a "real" calibrated SPL meter from a reputable brand and call it a day. It should last you a lifetime as long as you don’t leave batteries in it m... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". I thought Jerry Garcia (the Jerry Garcia Band) covered this tune very well on several occasions. Of course, the Grateful Dead covered some of The Band's other songs as well. I think I wore out the cassette tape I had recorded two of Robbie Roberts... | |
| This e-mail has been cryogenically treated @rodman99999 "BUT: there was still a contingent (like here, on AudiogoN), that wanted the universe (and electricity) to always make sense. Of course, it's been widely/scientifically proven: it seldom does." Yeah, there's "science", there's "ma... | |
| This e-mail has been cryogenically treated @rodman99999 thank you for those links. My undergraduate degree in the dark ages of the early 1980s was in aerospace engineering but my first job was in designing tooling for turbine blades. I believe G.E. at the time did use cryogenically cooled ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Tube integrateds and amps generally cost more for a given level of sound quality than comparable solid-state gear. And for a given amount of $$$ you can get more power from solid state than from tubes. If someone has a budget of say $15 to $20K fo... | |
| Isn't MCA Dead? Why is TAS touting MQA features in current emails? MQA had a reason to exist a few years ago, but now, it's lossy compression scheme (containers inside containers in a "zip file" scheme that needed to be mathematically "unfolded") simply isn't needed in a world where the Internet is fast enough to... | |
| Perplexed on how single driver speakers can cover such a large Hz range Then you have transmission line cabinets with single drivers that can go low. Sibelius is one such speaker. But yeah, it isn't for playing crazy loud. All speaker designs are compromises. I can't remember but Zu or Tekton have a two-driver speake... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? Order some 43-year-old speakers from Reverb dot com. That sounds safe doesn't it? Hmmm, maybe not. | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? The real question for those of us on the fence a bit is what DAC to invest in at any price point? Are R2R based DACs the "holy grail" all the YouTube reviewers say they are? Is that "wide and deep soundstage with natural tonality" they say R2R D... | |
| When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached? ASR lost me when they have some Topping DAC rated higher than the Tambaqui in his hierarchy list. Sorry, but I’ll take the Tambaqui all day. Lower cost DACs have reached a "pretty doggone good" level in the $500 to $1600 range (from say a Geshell... | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops Yeah. We have to face the fact that the music industry was eclipsed both in popularity and financially, long ago by the video game industry and THAT is where it is at today for anyone 35 and younger. Music that sounds disposable (today’s pop, rap,... | |
| What's the point of reviewing? You can take what any reviewer says with a grain of salt regarding sound quality, but reviewers can also tell you much about the feature set of a device, how well those features worked, how snappy any software was, and if it had issues connecting ... | |
| Why do speakers improve with more powerful amps? Try driving a set of Maggies with a 2W Decware Zen Triode. Not going to work. |