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| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? A few notes from my experience. I have ripped my collection of 4000+ CDs to uncompressed FLAC (I still have all my CDs). I can't hear much if any difference between the original CD played through my PSA PerfectWave transport and PW MKII DAC vs. t... | |
| Speaker Questions @sgreg1 I urge you to read those two reviews and then come back and tell us whether or not they are more valuable than the comments in this thread. Compared to the short comments here, many of them snarky in tone (including mine), those two revie... | |
| Speaker Questions The Polk S50 are popular speakers and have been reviewed at least a couple of times. Google "Polk S50 Review" and you will see at least two reviews. Both of these reviews are very detailed and positive. I would suggest that you place much more wei... | |
| Owning Up To It David Crosby has been one of my favorite musicians. It was sad and frustrating to hear of his absurd trashing of Daryl Hannah (Neil Young's future wife). Then the other stuff about Crosby started coming out and I'm sorry to say that this artist th... | |
| Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went? In our hobby the story behind a piece of gear is more important to some audiophiles than the actual sound. I just came back from the Pacific Audio Fest and I heard a lot of speakers and other gear that had a great story but sounded so-so. I've bee... | |
| Current Universal Players @ spenav I'm not sure what the point of your post is but I think you don't understand the HDCD format. Yes, you can play an HDCD disc on a standard Redbook player but the player won't decode the HDCD information and provide the extra dynamic rang... | |
| Current Universal Players I think your problem is going to be HDCD.. I don't know of any new players that decode this format. I have two players and a DAC that will do HDCD because I collect CDs with this format and I can hear the difference when the HDCD is decoded. You m... | |
| Dynaudio - Made in China vs Denmark Sorry to be redundant but I'm going to emphasize a point made earlier. The bottom line here is how you feel about the speakers. If you are always going to be wondering if your speakers would sound better if they were made in Denmark then there is ... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? Have you compared playing a CD vs. streaming the same version of the recording? Does the CD sound better than the stream? I am running Qobuz through a PC hooked up to my PS Audio PerfectWave Mk II DAC (PWD). I also have the matching PW transport.... | |
| Is There A Big Difference Between Subwoofers From Different Manufacturers My take on this question is that the answer depends on what you are expecting the sub to do. In my case I am running a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers full range and using a late 90's 15" Velodyne (servo design) sub to fill in the bottom octave. It is ... | |
| Large speaker recommendation Considering the amplifiers you own you are not restricted om your speaker choice. I'm going to throw out an alternative that I think would be worth considering. I own a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers driven by a Krell KSA 300S. I've been to two audio... | |
| Speaker Questions I have not heard that particular model but I have owned 3 pairs of Polk speakers and I've been very happy with all of them - particularly for the price. Polk is part of Harmon Group and the reason that's noteworthy is because they have extensive ... | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns Back to the original topic..... When I read the article I had quite a laugh. We have to remember that TAS serves an industry based on the simple assumption that spending more money gets you better sound. Anyone, even multimillionaires, want to th... | |
| Concentric drivers I have a pair of Thiel CS6 speakers which have first order crossovers plus a concentric mid/tweeter. This crossover design makes each driver cover a much broader frequency range. Theoretically this would worsen any doppler effect. Other Thiel mode... | |
| Mogami 2921 vs Canare 4s11 vs ??? For the small additional cost I would sure recommend that you go with a company like Blue Jeans Cable who can professionally weld the terminations to the cable. They sell Canare 4S11 as one of their options. The connections between the cable and t... |