brianlucey
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| Do I need upgraded power cables? @bzawa the important part of your question is that you’re asking other people what you "need", and in my experience, that’s just never the way to go. fear of missing out means you’re already in fear ... so you’re not in a position to listen criti... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype @limomangus $2000 is a lot of money and there are many really good DA for 2000 or less and there are also some that are not so good it’s not a contest on expense, use your ears and find what works for you @choiceaudio I tried to engage with the ... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype @donavabdear do you have the avid MTRX DA conversion from DAD? That one’s actually terrible especially for the price @jasonbourne71 i’m sure some part of you has good intentions, but you’re coming across as a tool. and you’re factually wrong ... | |
| Qobuz vs Tidal @ghdprentice not to pick on you in particular but because you brought up the point… High resolution audio is 100% marketing bullshit the best Audio possible is whatever was happening in the mastering room, that is what was approved by the artist... | |
| I’m considering upgrading my speakers internal wiring @bobbyloans i’ve gone down the rabbit hole of upgrades from every direction and if you are inspired to do any particular thing, I would certainly not stop you… However A big upgrade that many people miss out on is simply addressing the AC power i... | |
| Replace tubes yearly? The adage, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it ... comes to mind I will often leave my Allnic Audio A-6000 300 BXLS tube amplifiers on 24 seven they are on at least 12 hours a day every day for the last five years, I have an AT-1000 Amplitrex test... | |
| What Speaker Cables Taught Me About Audiophiles @squared80 literally every cable sounds different ... speaker, interconnect, AC power, etc just like all the various AC power conditioners and regenerators and balancing transformers, they all have a sound also if we don't hear it that's OK, ... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @roadwhorerecords ridiculous and redundant both :) | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @lalitk you made a couple of reasonable comments and then a whole lot of sales pitch that any AI could have generated upsampling a master is always damaging, always MQA always adds distortion. Always. Bulk processing was common and that t... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @lalitk maybe you’re someone who buys the sales pitch that you’re sold instead of someone who knows what they’re doing, but I’m willing to give you a chance Go ahead and define what is "high definition" audio Then please explain why music maste... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @lalitk I have downloaded files I mastered from QOBUZ etc. I have done the work. It’s my job "high resolution" is a marketing myth @soix There is nothing superior to the sample and bit rate from the mastering session. When we don’t know the... | |
| Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs? @itanibro i’m a mastering engineer with 11 Grammy winning projects in my résumé and I work on every style for 25 years… Here’s the reality 16 bit 44.1 Audio (CD) is not in any practical way inferior to 24 bit 44.1 Audio or 24 96 or 192 for 9... | |
| Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz? @fthompson251 artist : Miles Davis album : Kind of Blue This is the best selling jazz album of all time, recorded live in the room, if you don't like this, then you're going to have to flavor your jazz, because this is the real deal. | |
| I hate to say it, but now I think maybe I like my amp in ultralinear mode versus triode @immatthewj I have a highly modified version of that amplifier and you can actually run combinations so for example. UL T UL or T UL T (I used the amp for mastering for like four years and it's been sitting around so if someone is... | |
| Ayre V-5xe Review @exron sounds like you had a bad experience, but that is very unique. I've seen no one else with anything but great experiences… So you are going to be pissed at this company for the rest of your life because of this one bad experience which is st... |