qualia8
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| What price point favors separates over integrated? Thanks, Krell man. It's all that additional cost in cords, interconnects, and boxes that I'm wondering about. This additional cost seems to argue heavily in favor of an integrated -- even at, say $5K. You like Musical Fidelity amps. (I do too. The... | |
| Why does my laptop annoy me less than my rig? Looks like you have a beautiful setup. I just ordered a Behringer digital eq to check my room out, and maybe correct it even. Also, I have a pair of Revels on the way.Would love to try Mac gear, as I hear only good things, but it's just a tad pric... | |
| How much $ to "match" digital in my system? I have checked that out, actually. Cool thread. I'm afraid I also don't have that much free time... or creativity. But I did get some good ideas. | |
| Budget speakers for Orchestral music? I'm interested to see the responses here, but if you're really into orchestral, my guess is that the answer is... NO SUCH THING. I've never really heard any convincing reproduction of orchestral music. But the closest systems I've heard were $$$$$. | |
| Why does my laptop annoy me less than my rig? If you don't mind my asking, Phd, what sort of preamp (with controls) are you using? | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Shadorne:Another way of making your point is this. Even if ABX tests do not reveal all audible differences, somehow, they do reveal *degrees* of difference. Components that ABX as different, and clearly so, are different to a *greater* degree than... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Pabelson: we've said the same thing... what *would* count as a test of audible difference if not dbt? How would we ever know a beetle in the box wouldn't make an audible difference? Or what if we were simply to change the faceplate on an amp. Noth... | |
| Why does my laptop annoy me less than my rig? Phd: I gotcha. One of the things that got me interested in hi-end audio was a visit to a Bose store when I was vacationing in New Hampshire/Maine and stopped in a little town for dinner with some time to kill. An upleasant experience all around. T... | |
| Why does my laptop annoy me less than my rig? Dred: I have had the same experience with classic rock. I did most of my classic rock listening on my college roomate's cheap vintage setup, and it sounded great. We actually did what college roomates do and started a band doing classic rock cover... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? The standoff between Pabelson and Tbg reminds me of the stalemate between the external-world skeptic and the dogmatist.Skeptic: You don't know that you're not a brain in a vat of nutrients, being stimulated by a computer simulation, carefully moni... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Wattsboss:I *do* like your analogy of the beauty that grows on you. I've had that experience, as well as its opposite -- the superficial beauty that fades quickly (or immediately upon conquest). True. Typically, it's because facial expressions tak... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? WARNING: LONG POST -- LIFE HISTORY AND ITS ILLUSTRATION OF BIASES -- YOU MAY WANT TO SKIPI went through grad school with a $150 boombox. As a classical music lover, I obviously wasn't happy with it, but what was I going to do? Sell my '87 Buick an... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Btw,Tbg, like your former self, I am a modestly paid Assistant Prof. who would dearly love to subsist on cheap electronics. Right on the mark!What do you think of my suggested experiment? Not blind, but with deception alternated with truth-telling... | |
| Why does my laptop annoy me less than my rig? Yeah, I am OCD. Big time! It's not just audio. Whatever I get into -- golf, stocks, chess, piano, running -- I get *way* into it. I've got mixed feelings about it, because I know it's borderline crazy, but it's how I got where I am, career-wise. I... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Study proposal:I don't know if any studies of the following kind have been done. But if not, then one should be done.Materials: two sets of cheap cables -- cosmetically different, and a set of expensive cables that look just like the cheap ones.Fi... |