simonmoon
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| A brief review of GR Research Bully While I don't own any GR Research products, I am a fan of Danny's work. I have helped upgrade several pair of speakers using his upgrade kits, and everyone has been a fairly appreciable improvement. Some of the Danny haters on YT tend to make co... | |
| Proac Response 3.8 stereo imaging is not centered I think @yogiboy above, is referring to relative phase, not absolute phase. As in, one speaker is wired with the negative cable going to positive terminal, while the other is correctly. This will cause the image to be offset, or diffuse, and not... | |
| Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To This could be TL:DNR, but here goes... Almost my entire music listening history is loaded with: albums, musicians, bands, composers and even entire genres and subgenres, that took many listens and time to get into. Mostly because they pushed the ... | |
| Upgrade speakers or DAC Speakers will give you the most obvious difference, but in the long run, I think source is more important. Better speakers will get you a more accurate representation of the source signal you currently have, a more accurate source will give you ... | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! Given the same budget for speakers, 2 speakers will sound better than multiple speakers. There is no free lunch. If one has a budget, let's say, $10K for speakers, and they spend on 4+ speakers instead of 2, the quality and engineering on every... | |
| Orchestrated Rock...Uriah Heep and others I’ll post more that might be of interest. Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone (2015) / Swedish band that stated off sounding a bit in the King Crimson vein, then got a bit more ambient in their middle releases, but their latest is pure symp... | |
| Another Matteo Mancuso rant Sure, he is great. My only problem is, there are other modern fusion guitarists, that are just as good, if not better, that seem to remain in relative obscurity. Not sure why he is all that is being talked about as the "next coming" of fusion gu... | |
| Orchestrated Rock...Uriah Heep and others There is so much brilliant music that I believe falls within what you are describing. Obviously, a very high percentage of prog from all eras fits. And of course, the use of Mellotron by a high percentage of prog bands also lends that orchestral ... | |
| Speakers that disappear GR Research's NX Studio disappear amazingly well. Open baffle planar tweeters are the magic. They are kits, but they come with finished baffles, and flat packs are available (so you don't have to do any wood cutting). The end results are a spe... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Not today, but my latest listening session form last night. Cynic - Traced in Air (2008, remix 2019) / Incredible technical-metal, with great melodies and emotion, and incredible musicianship. Way too compressed. Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the ... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? Better cables will most likely make a difference, in most levels of systems. But, the better and better a systems gets, the bigger the audible differences will become. | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? I would have a major problem with AI created music. The genres of music I listen to (jazz, prog, classical, and their various subgenres) all require a fairly high to very high level of musicianship. And a big part of that is not just technical sk... | |
| New In 2024 Here’s a brand new released (7/26), and a great one! Perpetual Mutations Gavin Harrison - drums (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief, others) Antoine Farfad - bass (one of the best bass players on the planet) Killer prog-fusion. Comp... | |
| Best music in 2024 Here's a brand new release (7/26), and a great one! Perpetual Mutations Gavin Harrison - drums (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief, others) Antoine Farfad - bass (one of the best bass players on the planet) Killer prog-fusion. C... | |
| Borresen X3 vs Harbeth 40.2 -- my impressions I am far from a "measurement only" guy, but a lot about the Harbeth's can be discerned by these 2 measurements. And in my opinion, not in a good way. This spectral decay is simply bad, and will be audible as colorations. |