http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Paradise-Three-starring-Gardner-Mckay/dp/B000YONVNU
Amazon has EVERYTHING.
Amazon has EVERYTHING.
yes. Not quite ready for Prime Time in the past but it is getting there. Now that the big boys have jumped into it with both feet, i expect great things coming our way. What do you think about it?
-RNM
Richard, tape also sound good, tape playback also have the dymamic imprint of reverse dymamic ulinearity, throug magnetiisem in the heads. I once heard a direct comparison of a dub of a Master-tape and the same vinyl, tape wins, vinyl second, the digital a bit after the two. Good tape has unbelievable dynamics. For pure performance reel to reel gets my vote, but I must admit that for practicality I'll have to settle for less.
Vinyl has another upside, you tend to listen to albums and not just zapping track or bit of tracks. Beneficial for the performer and beneficial for you get out of lifeflickering zap-mode
Vinyl has another upside, you tend to listen to albums and not just zapping track or bit of tracks. Beneficial for the performer and beneficial for you get out of lifeflickering zap-mode
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Something Scott said reminded me.... that the content really is what matters most, in the end of all this. It is about the music no matter how good the record/playback system. I listen to music everyday and now most all day every day on a couple small speakers and cheap amp via FM. Just to hear the music that I like. Sometimes, I turn on the Sony 400CD carousel player and let it go play all day. I dont need to have great sound nor accurate sound to enjoy music. But, I do enjoy the challenge and the wonderful experience to have both when I wish to.
THx-RNMarsh
THx-RNMarsh
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Richard is right, direct digital at least 96/24 is the best. Raw data, minimum of mastering. LP is a caricature unable to capture high dynamics and clarity. Good for jazz bar.
He doesn't like emotion in music and he's incapable of love, so don't waste your time asking.
Ouch.
That said, if money were no object, I'd pay that for a complete set of Winky Dink, if the magic drawing screen were included.
Exactly what is rude? How do you expect me to PROVE that pure silver cables sound better to me in my system? MY system, not any other system, much less all systems.
Please note I made myself very clear - i prefer silver cabling using Neotech silve cable, not just any silver or silver plated cable. I cannot know, let alone judge, how it might sound in your or anyobody else's system, only in my own. And let me add that the difference is far from being stunning, clear as day, overwhelming or some such, no, it's relatively small, but still large enough for me to hear it. In your system, this same diference might be inaudible, same as with me, or possibly even greater, the only way to know that is to use it in your system.
And believe me, the system has everything to do with it. My own cables, in other systems, produced anything from imperceptible differences (if any) to about as much as in my system. The common denomenator is how transparent were those systems in the first place, if mediocre than any difference in cable tended to be less audible, and vice versa. I don't even know what's in your system, let alone how it works all together, but then, neither do you know anything about my system.
As for personal hearing, hate it as much as you like, but it is a fact that everyone hears in his own way - or not. Over the years, I have met a grand total of 3 (three) people who hear it about the same as I do, and whose hearing I trust so completely that I'd buy something on their say so. As I did my present CD player, and it works exactly as my friend described it. And hering differently does not automatically mean hearing less or worse, just differently. To use a car analogy, is BMW a better car than a Mercedes Benz? I's say not necessarily better, but definitely different.
I wish you wouldn't take this as an insult, because it certainly wasn't meant to be any. But these are easily verifieable facts, pick at random any 10 people off the street and do a test, you'll end up with 10 different viewpoints. But please excuse me for not giving a damn about how someone else feels about my system, I am the one living with it day in and day out, so what I feel about it is the ONLY thing that I do care about. If you feel differently, fine, you do it your way and I'll do it my way until I experience something better yet.
I recently moved up to the D800 and use Lightroom for processing and can spend as long playing with the image digitally as I ever did in the darkroom (that was many years ago), but I have the tools to create just the same digitally now as I did when it was all analogue, even more so with add-ons such as Silver Effex Pro you can recreate the look of film and with the right paper can get prints that really look the part. Digital has opened up a wider world of image manipulation for me, much more than analogue (I print at 10x8 minimum I like a print to hold and view, my ink costs are a bit silly though)Again like with music with the right lens and sensor the information you have is immense with digital compared to compatible 35mm film. And no smelly chemicals, I don't miss that part.🙂
It was rather tongue in cheek, I'll use a smiley next time to indicate when I am being sardonic.. It is a often thrown curved ball. Interestingly in one discussion on hearing things I was told I wouldn't be able to resolve the lower detail without a 15" woofer in each speaker... I thought dam I've got it wrong again I use 2 per side😀
So, preferring some music types to others is a sign of good hearing and love of music?
Anyone arguing that way is a dead wrong from the start quasi elitist.
For the record, I am not particularly keen on Abba, but did buy them for the sake of two or three of their songs I do like (quite usual for me to buy like that) and because like it or not, they did mark an era, one I am fond of and one I wanted to round off in my small collection.
It's that simple. I also purchased a 3 CD collection of one hit wonder performers, a collection of groups who had just one hit on the charts and diappeared after that (e.g. Zager and Evans, In the Year 2525). On all 3 CDs, there's probably no more than 6 or 7 numbers I REALLY like, the rest are just collateral damage to me, and quite a few numbers which made the US chart top 20 I have never even heard of.
Am I weird because I also happen to like Three Dog Night, Cat Stevens (from the period he was still sane), Marshall Tucker band and The Incredible String Band? If so, then so be it.
Not with Mahler' s no. 8. Yes with Counts of Dixieland. Do you understand, Michael?
Actually, to me, that's no arguement. My wife is a clear cut lover of classical music, and especially the opera. She doesn't catch half of what I do in listening, but who cares, that's not important, the point is she enjoys listening to that music. Out of everything I have, I managed to squeeze just three CDs of music I isten to that she also likes.
I was the one who put together her system, I am the one who has gone out and purchased 99% of the music collection she has, I am the one who keeps her system running like clockwork (I am currently refreshing her integrated amp). To me, the difference in musical tastes is of absolutely no consequence, there's room enough for both of us.
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I have just listened to James Taylor LP Sweet Baby James commercial 1971 issue. Perfect recording and mastering-clean, clear and dynamic. I advice Pavel to find it and if it is caricature.
An advice for Mr. John Curl: Have your Linn Sondek motor re-lubricated. Your playback will be better still.
An advice for Mr. John Curl: Have your Linn Sondek motor re-lubricated. Your playback will be better still.
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