stuartk
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| Maybe it IS all in the DAC chips @audioman58 land will be upgrading it to the Dac 2 that has 2 BB 1994A chips used in monolithic design , these chips 30% is a R2R chip the other 70% Delta Sigma , all price point Merason dacs have a natural quality to them and very welll rece... | |
| Live Bootleg CDs - Are they legitimate? Good quality? @zx10 Your mention of KMET brings back great memories. My junior and senior years in HS ('73, '74), they were my favorite radio station. | |
| Why I don't think I'll ever return to vinyl - brief rant @cleeds Let me get this straight. The OP says, "I am not a vinyl guy," then buys vinyl for his "half decent turntable and a half decent cartridge and a mid-fi at best phono preamp," then doesn’t like the record, then creates a thread saying, "I... | |
| New In 2026 @jafant For those who play CDs, the Who UHQR series will not be available until some time in 2007. | |
| Audio snobbery @ervikingo I agree with @lous -- very well said! | |
| Audio snobbery @dayglow I don't listen to much Classical but I do have a handful of Classical solo piano discs that I play from time to time. I enjoy acoustic genres including singer/songwriter, Bluegrass/Newgrass, Folk of varied persuasions, acoustic Jazz (ma... | |
| The Cable Company’s “Why Trust Matters” — Why so Cloak & Dagger? @kirkwallace You're right. I tend to forget they sell more than cables! | |
| The Cable Company’s “Why Trust Matters” — Why so Cloak & Dagger? Since it makes a point of saying "promote in the US" and mentions shipping costs, perhaps this refers to a foreign made cable line? | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Personally, I found it easier to develop a sense of how my tastes related to the Penguin Guide ratings because there were only two reviewers who wrote them, jointly. Due to the greater number of reviewers contributing to the All Musi... | |
| Audio snobbery @larsman +1 Music on my system sounds like a recording and I have absolutely no problem with recordings sounding like recordings. If you have season tickets to a symphony and you sit in the same seat over and over, or frequent a particular Ja... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @alexatpos Thanks for that well-written tribute. Here are a couple recordings some here may not have heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWPCvb0gmo&list=PLyHn3f7-9IULJ3w8PqZyuOPhF0LbtOY4O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tingS8AUMSY&am... | |
| My system is a time machine In my youth, I typically heard music played on cheap equipment and more often than not, on transistor radios. In my adolescence, some friends had component systems but the sound was midfi at best. Accordingly, in my brain, there is no connection/c... | |
| Do you have a favorite record label? @nogaps RE: Blue Note sound, it's a shame Roy Du Naan wasn't the engineer for all those Blue Note dates. For the uninitiated: https://www.discogs.com/artist/407308-Roy-DuNann?srsltid=AfmBOorFGg_IA6jf9PqiFRW5JadNxPjzc5PFllINY_eyHZteXy2ruhAh ... | |
| Do you have a favorite record label? When I was first getting into Jazz, it was Blue Note. One of my first Jazz purchases was Wayne Shorter’s JuJu. I bought it because I liked the cover art. Listening to that album triggered a long exploration of Shorter, Hancock, Hill, Hutcherson, H... | |
| New Rick Beato interview today... @mrdecibel Let me get this straight: if my musical tastes don’t mimic yours, then I’m disqualified ftom calling myself a music lover? Are you serious? I don’t find B. Joel’s music particularly appealing but I do recognize and respect his tale... |