yoyoyaya
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| Anyone listen to entire albums? I listen to the majority of my music on CD and LP and almost always listen through on the CD and to one or two sides depending on the LP. I tend to use streaming to find albums I like and then go buy them in physical format. | |
| Does Every Track Sound Great on Your System? @OP. There are two possibilities here. The first is that you have room problems. If you have, depending on the key of the song and the bassline, some tracks may sound right and others wrong. The second is just the fact that depending on the choic... | |
| Accuphase or Leben for heavy metal @OP Passlabs X250.8 with an appropriate pre-will work very well on metal. As reflected in many of the comments, you need the ability to play loud with lots of control. A pair of Parasound JC1s would also be ideal - preferably pre owned. Since th... | |
| How you know your system is improving? @OP. I use a small number of recordings that reflect different aspects of sound quality. I've used these recordings across many different systems to give a broader set of benchmarks rather than just internally benchmarking my own system. +1 to GH... | |
| Benchmark Media Systems. Right or wrong The problem with the Benchmark argument is the logical fallacy of faulty generalisation. Personally, I partly agree with the Benchmark post to wit, there are snake oil companies in the Hi-Fi business. I also agree that many audio cables are overpr... | |
| Need a modern Class A monoblock, preferably half or compact chassis Just get a pair of 60.8s. Pass is highly unlikely to release a smaller form factor amplifier. It would require retooling the metalwork for just one model that would probably have limited appeal anyway and the tooling cost would have to be reflecte... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Degritter - really well designed and made. | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @erik_squires - that's a very ragged frequency response graph. I don't think speakers have to measure perfectly to sound good - Wilson Audio speakers are not textbook. But there's a difference between small deviations and big ones. | |
| How does speaker placement affect the width of the soundstage? In addition to/in conjunction with speaker placement, the acoustics of the room have a major influence on soundstage. | |
| Music first or sound first? I'm a musician and songwriter, so music without question. That said, I'm heavily involved in domestic and pro audio. However, I can listen to music without a hi-fi system but I can't listen to my hi-fi system without music. So, QED, music is mo... | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? @facten - No! | |
| Records not stored vertically for decades @Soix - The records may be noisier and or skippy because the lower ones will have quite a bit of pressure on them so any surface contaminants are going to be well pressed into the grooves. If 150 records is the totality of your collection, I woul... | |
| If you have a nice system why do you really need room treatments? @Emergingsoul, I am sorry to hear about your condition. That said, you could publish details of your system in a post on this thread. I’m sure it will require a word count less than many of your posts. As regards the substance of your post, ac... | |
| RIP Paul Messenger Sad to hear. RIP Paul Messenger. One of the old school of sensible hi-fi journalists. | |
| Resolving Hum with Battery Back-up (EcoFlow) vs Power Conditioners: success vs failure @OP. Reducing this to it's simplest, there is something related your mains power that the tube half of your McIntosh amps don't like. In general valve (tube) amps are more susceptible to hum issues. The fact that modern tubes are generally less w... |