Hooray for the Mods! We have a dedicated source section!

May 28, 2004 at 12:01 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 14

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After much griping and war on the member's louge, the mods have finally separated the source forum into two equal fora for computer based sources and component based sources. Hip Hip Hooray!
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May 28, 2004 at 3:33 AM Post #4 of 14
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Originally Posted by tortie
Very happy to have it! Thanks a lot to Jude and the mod squad!
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Seconded.
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May 28, 2004 at 3:42 AM Post #5 of 14
eh? I better go check it out. thanks mods.
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May 28, 2004 at 8:46 AM Post #6 of 14
And also a dedicated meets-section which I find to be even greater.
 
May 28, 2004 at 2:11 PM Post #7 of 14
Which we can all watch slowly die from disuse as newbies and younger folk go straight to the computer forum and never visit and learn about the importance of better quality stand-alone sources. This is a blow to Team Source First, IMO. Sorry to thread crap.
 
May 28, 2004 at 2:45 PM Post #8 of 14
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Originally Posted by markl
Which we can all watch slowly die from disuse as newbies and younger folk go straight to the computer forum and never visit and learn about the importance of better quality stand-alone sources. This is a blow to Team Source First, IMO. Sorry to thread crap.


There are also many people here who refuse to buy amps and use stock cables only. They don't care about hi-fi, they just wanted a decent pair of cans.

Others just want the best headphone to play PC games.

Not everyone here is an audiophile, and I am cool with that now.
 
May 28, 2004 at 3:20 PM Post #9 of 14
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Originally Posted by markl
Which we can all watch slowly die from disuse as newbies and younger folk go straight to the computer forum and never visit and learn about the importance of better quality stand-alone sources. This is a blow to Team Source First, IMO. Sorry to thread crap.


MarkL:

I seriously doubt that will ever happen. I say so because manufacturers will always release very tempting source components that will continue to garner interest and discussion on audio centric discussion boards including ours. One thing that you might want to consider is the fact that the computer source folks do happen to own some dedicated source components; they will inevitably have some usage of that forum as well. The purpose of creating the computers as a source forum is to simply funnel traffic into the appropriate designated areas. It is not a means by which to divert traffic from the stand-alone source components to the computer source forum. Have no fear: they will always envy what we have! J/K...
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May 28, 2004 at 5:52 PM Post #10 of 14
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Which we can all watch slowly die from disuse as newbies and younger folk go straight to the computer forum and never visit and learn about the importance of better quality stand-alone sources. This is a blow to Team Source First, IMO. Sorry to thread crap.


... and we can watch as smart audiophile companies catch on and start producing computer-based audiophile products. One-box DACs with hard drive transports and Ethernet ports.... definitely the future.

Adios, single-disc players!

- Chris
 
May 28, 2004 at 6:03 PM Post #11 of 14
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Originally Posted by markl
Which we can all watch slowly die from disuse as newbies and younger folk go straight to the computer forum and never visit and learn about the importance of better quality stand-alone sources. This is a blow to Team Source First, IMO. Sorry to thread crap.


Not really. The majority of those kinds of people wouldn't be looking to spend a great deal on sources anyway, and would be of the $2K phones, $500 amp, $150 source school... let them continue to believe they aren't missing anything.


Besides that, I second what Minya says. I don't agree with soundcards residing within a computer being able to compete with premium sources, but I'd love to see high-fidelity versions of things like the Squeezebox which will work over gigabit networks and be able to take i.Link streams of SACD, and upsample WAVs as put them through some premium DA conversion.


This will undoubtedly lead to new classes of discussions and products, like a Cardas Neutral Reference Cat5e cable which will of course improve your soundstaging and extension
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May 28, 2004 at 7:10 PM Post #12 of 14
I'm glad to see the source split.
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If I want to look at computer audio, I can do that easily. If I want to just study up on real sources, I can do that easily. I see it as the same as having a portable forum that has always been divided from the other sources.

I think the dedicated source will survive. There seem to be enough people here in each camp and some in both.
 
May 28, 2004 at 9:54 PM Post #14 of 14
Sweet. This should help eliminate a lot of the congenstion/confusion on that board.
 

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