Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread ralphpnj
audio53 wrote: Do we really need all of this distraction while listening to music? I realize it is all 'different strokes for different folks', but I can't imagine the value of spending my listening time clicking through a bunch of hyperlinks. I can understand your thinking about spending

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bob Dylan's Shadows In The Night - when 24-bit HRA isn't!

2015-02-06 Thread Wombat
Archimago wrote: Folks... For a relatively high profile album, this is truly awful! http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/02/measurements-bob-dylans-shadows-in.html Impressive! Your blog is much better as wathing TV often enough manwhile and now with voice! Very entertaining :) This discovery

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread Mnyb
Mike Sargent wrote: I think there is serious money to be made by someone who builds a device that sits between a CD player and an amp that introduces all of the distortions, frequency limitations, wow flutter, etc. that vinyl has, and then periodically adds a click or snap to the audio and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bob Dylan's Shadows In The Night - when 24-bit HRA isn't!

2015-02-06 Thread Archimago
Wombat wrote: Impressive! Your blog is much better as wathing TV often enough manwhile and now with voice! Very entertaining :) This discovery just shows one more time what the business and so called professionals think of us customers. P.S.: I just redownloaded track 1 at qobuz in

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] KEF X300A's and the Squeezebox Radio's output - A good fit?

2015-02-06 Thread Scott Crawford
Hi All, Thanks so much for great suggestions. I really appreciate them. I have been doing as much listening as I can here in Spokane, WA but really I'm limited to a Huppins HiFi store, which also runs OneCall.com and a Guitar Center store. Huppins is the only audiophile store in town but their

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread Julf
Archimago wrote: how can anyone in their right mind even declare this kind of hypothesis with a straight face and consider himself educated as an audio reviewer!? I don't think educated as an audio reviewer implies actually having to know or understand anything... :) I don't know what to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread cliveb
Let me start by stating that I fully understand and acknowledge that vinyl is a deeply flawed and inaccurate medium. In all objective senses it is vastly inferior to CD. I long ago gave up using vinyl for day-to-day listening (although I still transfer LPs to digital as a hobby). And yet... back

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread probedb
cliveb wrote: There has to be something euphonic about the shortcomings of vinyl. Not really, you just happen to like the distortion etc that it introduces, some people like lots of bass, some people like different EQs. It's just that for vinyl people mistakenly associate it with a better

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread ralphpnj
Archimago wrote: Yup... Hate it when the sound is baked in :-( Time for a blog post on this: 'MUSINGS: The ongoing Vinyl vs. Digital debate...' (http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/02/musings-ongoing-vinyl-vs-digital-debate.html) Fascinating how the vinylphile's vinylphile Fremer brought

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread bonze
Mike Sargent wrote: I think there is serious money to be made by someone who builds a device that sits between a CD player and an amp that introduces all of the distortions, frequency limitations, wow flutter, etc. that vinyl has, and then periodically adds a click or snap to the audio and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread ralphpnj
Mike Sargent wrote: I think there is serious money to be made by someone who builds a device that sits between a CD player and an amp that introduces all of the distortions, frequency limitations, wow flutter, etc. that vinyl has, and then periodically adds a click or snap to the audio and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread Mike Sargent
probedb wrote: Not really, you just happen to like the distortion etc that it introduces, some people like lots of bass, some people like different EQs. It's just that for vinyl people mistakenly associate it with a better sound. There's nothing wrong with liking the sound of vinyl at all.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Bob Dylan's Shadows In The Night - when 24-bit HRA isn't!

2015-02-06 Thread Archimago
Folks... For a relatively high profile album, this is truly awful! http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/02/measurements-bob-dylans-shadows-in.html Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread RonM
cliveb wrote: Let me start by stating that I fully understand and acknowledge that vinyl is a deeply flawed and inaccurate medium. In all objective senses it is vastly inferior to CD. I long ago gave up using vinyl for day-to-day listening (although I still transfer LPs to digital as a

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-02-06 Thread audio53
ralphpnj wrote: ...This post got me to thinking about an area where digital audio continues to fall way short of it's vast potential. I'm referring to the lack of hyper-linking within a digital audio music library. For example by this I mean the ability to be listening to Miles Davis'