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Book-Fi
I'm a Murakami fan too but I've heard from several sources that the English editions/translations of his books really don't do them justice. Any native Japanese readers who can confirm or deny this?- plantsman
- Post #9
- Forum: Gear-Fi: Non-Audio Gear and Gadgets
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Can anyone help me with headphones? I have a severe hearing loss
With all due respect this is a question you should be asking your physician or audiologist NOT a bunch of strangers with more opinions than expertise. Good luck but get informed, professional advice.- plantsman
- Post #2
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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WHY ON EARTH DO PEOPLE STILL LISTEN TO mp3?!??!?!
Aside from the people who are perfectly happy with MP3 and low-to-mid end ear buds/IEMs/headphones and never expect to have a more resolving system I can't see why anyone would pick lossy compression for permanent storage. Given how cheap disk space is these days it strikes me as a fool's...- plantsman
- Post #51
- Forum: Computer Audio
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Adam A5x with dual sub7's in stereo setup
With vinyl sources low bass has to be mono or it could throw the stylus out of the groove. Digital sources offer the potential to go lower without summed bass but the decision to have mono low bass may be made for other reasons. I don't entirely agree with the conclusions of this paper based... -
Adam A5x with dual sub7's in stereo setup
In terms of compensating for the room the more subwoofers the better (see Duke LeJeune's/AudioKinesis swarm subwoofers) provided that they are carefully placed. As far as the localization issue goes that should not be a problem if the subwoofers are crossed over low enough. The x-over... -
320 kbps MP3 vs. normal audio CD listening Sound quality
There is a very wide range in the resolving power of different systems and I would argue that there also are significant differences in auditory acuity and processing. I believe that the differences between 320kbit/s lossy MP3 and good 44.1/16 redbook reproduction (or lossless copies) are...- plantsman
- Post #11
- Forum: Sound Science
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suggestions for good powered speakers / monitors
Do you have a budget in mind? ATC, PMC, Klein + Hummel, Event, Dynaudio, and Adam all make good powered monitors. -
Post A Photograph Of Your Turntable
Quote: I think that captures what I hear in the Grado wood body voicing although I've only spent time with the higher output Reference series and not the low output Statement series. The voicing definitely tilts toward warm rather than cool. The knocks on the Grados are that they don't...- plantsman
- Post #842
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Book-Fi
My take is that if you read that is a very good thing, regardless of what you read or whether you read old school bound paper books or ebooks. I think we are in some danger of becoming a post-literate society.- plantsman
- Post #5
- Forum: Gear-Fi: Non-Audio Gear and Gadgets
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30 years of CDs
Quote: I don't know what to hope for. I don't want either LPs or CDs (and by that I mean pressed CDs not CD-R on demand) to go away in the near term. I also don't think the current economic model is working very well for either the musicians or the audience. The old model was that...- plantsman
- Post #68
- Forum: Sound Science
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Jazz Recommendations from this Century
Some artists I like that I think haven't been mentioned yet: Ken Vandermark, especially his School Days and Atomic/School Days projects although the Vandermark 5 and DKV bands are also worth hearing Atomic, young Scandinavians who sound nothing like the ECM Scandinavian musicians Daniel... -
How to "damage" earphones?
Monster is an extremely nasty company but even so faking that they broke is completely unethical. Sorry, but you can't put up a post of this nature and use "...don't judge me please" as a get out of jail free card.- plantsman
- Post #3
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Book-Fi
Kind of a broad subject. My personal reading tastes are all over the map, ranging from mysteries, sci-fi and fantasy to "serious" fiction like Henry James, Ford Maddox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino and Cormac McCarthy. I also read quite a bit of non-fiction, mostly...- plantsman
- Post #3
- Forum: Gear-Fi: Non-Audio Gear and Gadgets
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30 years of CDs
Quote: Quote: The lousy vinyl predated the CD era. It was related to the oil crises of the 1970s. IME it was quite variable by label. WEA and A&M pressings tended to be reasonably reliably good while many of the other major labels seemed to have noisy pressings more often...- plantsman
- Post #63
- Forum: Sound Science
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30 years of CDs
I'm going to play the old geezer card here as I'm old enough to have been buying recorded music at the dawn of the CD era. I also worked in both record stores and high end audio shops. Despite the "Perfect Sound Forever" marketing trumpets both the early CDs and early CD players did not...- plantsman
- Post #60
- Forum: Sound Science
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matching cartridge and tonearm compliance
Among the data and tools sections at Vinyl Engine you'll find the information for a huge number of cartridges and a fair number of tonearms so you probably won't have to use assumed values.- plantsman
- Post #5
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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matching cartridge and tonearm compliance
This is a somewhat complicated question. There is no easy DIY method that I'm aware of to calculate cartridge compliance. You have to go by the manufacturer's published specification but they don't all state compliance in the same terms. European manufacturers usually state compliance at 10Hz...- plantsman
- Post #3
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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Post A Photograph Of Your Turntable
Quote: I have not heard the Ortofon or the ZYX but I have heard the Shelter, stock Denon 103s and the Benz. Personally I would pick the Dynavector 17D3. It is a bitch to set up given the short and hard to see cantilever but once dialed in it is a very good cartridge. It doesn't have...- plantsman
- Post #831
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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speakers with better mids than HE-6?
rgs9200m, after I posted I thought of a number of other speakers I probably should have included but I'd be amending that list forever if I was trying to make it absolutely comprehensive. The only Von Schweikerts I've heard are older models from when he was still operating in New York. I...- plantsman
- Post #8
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Advice needed on a DAC upgrade
Basically I disagree with almost everything you've written in the post above. We certainly aren't going to resolve this argument here since it has been going on for decades and probably has burned hotter in the 21st Century than was the case on the 1980s & '90s. On one side you have the people...- plantsman
- Post #18
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Advice needed on a DAC upgrade
I really can't agree that: "Colored" equipments sounds real All components are colored to a degree but markedly colored gear imposes a specific fingerprint between the music and the listener. I've heard a number of systems voiced to be extremely euphonic and on some music it sounds great...- plantsman
- Post #16
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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speakers with better mids than HE-6?
Let me preface this by saying that I have not heard the HE-6. One of the issues in comparing speakers systems to headphones us that you are getting a great deal of reflected room sound with almost any speaker system. There are pluses to that that reflected sound but it is time delayed...- plantsman
- Post #6
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Best speakers for 600
What are you going to use for a source and amplification? How big is your room? Any limitations on speaker placement? How loud do you listen? What types of music do you mostly listen to? Would you rather have a speaker that is as accurate as possible or one that is more forgiving? ... -
ATTN; All Vinyl Lovers. I need your help!! (all vinyl fans please read, need help)
You're not going to like this response but I would sell both turntables. If you have to keep one make it the VPI simply because it is a better match for the tonearm. IMO the VPI is a 1950s Buick of turntables, big, heavy, ponderous, unresponsive and numb. It does some of the audiophile...- plantsman
- Post #9
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Speakers - any experience of B&W, Dynaudio or Audiovector, Neat?
From this side of the Atlantic I'm not sure how much help I can offer as I really don't know the used market in Scotland or England but I'm not shy about voicing my opinions. Like DaveBSC above I don't care much for the N series B&W speakers. At least in the USA there are, IMO, far better...