Timothy Stockman;265449 Wrote: > A step in the right direction, but they've got an uphill battle. I > can't count the times I've seen the "not as loud as my other CDs" > complaint in Amazon reviews, as if loud CDs are to be valued by the > listener. > > The other big misunderstanding I've seen in Amazon reviews is the "it's > a ripoff because it's not stereo" comment. Maybe it doesn't occur to > some that there was a time before stereo, when everything was mono, and > a lenghty transition period (from the late 1950s to the early 1970s) > when there was a mix of stereo and mono recordings. Perhaps the reason > that a recording is in mono is because that's the way it was recorded! > My other beef is the mastering engineers who play mono tapes back on > stereo tape machines...
hmmm...a bit like playing your mono vinyl with a stereo stylus...ugh. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43045 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
