This is an ‘old’ thread but it still contains observations relevant to 2020 There has been many threads the last few months regarding the sonic signature of some of the highest regarded reference DACS (Dcs,Meitner,Ensemble,Audio Note,Zanden,Reimyo,Accustic Arts) here on the GON. I have been very fortunate to audtion many of these wonderful pieces in my […]
Month: January 2020
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Paul McGowan: Netflix has started making their own content in the same fashion that HBO and the other premium paid channels are. What’s interesting to me is that the big networks who used to own the audiences have fewer and fewer good shows and decreasing audiences while the paid channels have more and more good […]
Paul McGowan writes: There’s increasing evidence that rhymes, poems, meter and cadence in stories were created not because they are beautiful but because they helped us keep the words straight before the advent of written language. It is how our civilization kept important lessons, histories, messages and stories intact without writing anything down. Imagine any […]
Ethan Winer writes: I just completed a video version of my workshop “Lies, Damn Lies, and Audio Gear Specs” from the October 2013 AES show in New York City. This video explains how the fidelity of audio equipment is assessed and measured, and is an offshoot of my book The Audio Expert. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/New-video-explains-how-audio-78816.S.5819158464273874947?view=&item=5819158464273874947&type=member&gid=78816&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest-null-2-null&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=1bL6gGbiv-u6g1
Paul McGowan writes: My son Scott bought a really cool watch online for his girlfriend’s birthday. He took it to a watch repair shop to have the band adjusted and got scolded for buying online. “Shame on you”. This admonishment despite the fact the watch repair shop didn’t carry the brand bought and had no […]
Lets examine what hi fi is supposed to be about i.e. the most life like reproduction possible with nothing added and nothing taken away from the original. How many items of hi fi equipment I wonder are passed by for doing exactly that??! If equipment has an unnaturally warm sound, or slightly excess bass giving […]
Just read (scanned) the Australian review of the new Rega dac in the trade + reviews section. The chap makes mention of things improving significantly after 200 hours playing time. Now, this is something that gets bandied a LOT in reviews and it’s generally around the 200 hour mark that is the norm for apparent […]
I have an itunes based 2nd system comprising macbook, itunes files (mp4 rips of my CDs) on an external hard drive, DAC, amp, speakers. Where this plays, there is no internet, wifi etc. Daughter in a bit of a scrape so she’s getting the macbook, plus I no longer need any type of laptop. That […]
A insight into how many makers define the retail price of a product might be of interest. Generally, the manufacturing cost per item (sometimes with the R&D cost amortized, or not as the case maybe) is multiplied by say 10, 15 or 21 – or any other number that springs to mind, albeit with one […]
Paul McGowan writes: Vacuums suck (sorry, just couldn’t resist the joke)…but it’s not too far from wrong. It’s really the problem behind the classic AB test method: replace one piece of gear with another to form a value judgment. We all do it, but is it as definitive as we might hope? The answer has a […]
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Paul McGowan: With all the great power products on the market today it’s easy to forget that we still benefit from the basics – like dedicated power lines. A dedicated power line is simply a separate power circuit and wire dedicated specifically to your audio system. The key point is that nothing else is on […]
I have noticed comments posted on this and other forums with regards to surprise as to why some items haven’t sold. I have just been looking at an item for sale in private exhibitions which (thank heavens) has now sold in the form of an Ortofon 2M black. I have an item for sale myself […]
FYI: A thread – from a while back – that some might find contains interesting observations, advice and so on. Certainly worth dipping in and out of if you have only a few minutes to spare. Neil / editor in chief Please click HERE to read MORE
Paul McGowan writes: Probably time to cut back on the coffee. But if your jitter problems relate to your digital audio system then there’s hope. Jitter is all about timing. Digital audio depends heavily on an accurate clock. That clock meters out precise intervals, like a musical metronome, and the quality of your music depends […]
The above image is from the BBC A reader spotted this rant earlier today and I’ve posted here verbatim. No comment required I feel. Neil / editor —//— “The customer is not a member here and doesn’t like and wont join forums, and didn’t ask my advice, so he has now learnt something the hard […]
The thread starts: Hi all, some time ago I posted a thread to say I would be moving my kit into my conservatory and asking advice about the acoustics. I did receive some advice, and thanks to everyone for that. Now that I’ve actually done the move, it all seems fine except the limitations of […]
The thread starts: Reading articles about addictions and the diagnostic criteria for defining what an addiction is, I am struck by how many points of a diagnostic chart can be used to evaluate our behavior regarding audio matters. For sure, my long attendance of Naim world and forum has suggested a state of addiction in […]
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FYI: A thread – from a while back – that some might find contains interesting observations, advice and so on. Certainly worth dipping in and out of if you have only a few minutes to spare. Neil / editor in chief MORE
I lived in Manchester in the mid 1990s and looked in the ad paper Loot and saw a Linn Sondek with Lingo and ekos for £50 , I immediately phoned at 9.30am thinking I’d be first in but a caller had already seen it and was on his way to buy, I was gutted for […]
“TONTO is an acronym for “The Original New Timbral Orchestra,” the first, and still the largest, multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer in the world, designed and constructed over several years by Malcolm Cecil. TONTO started as a Moog modular synthesizer Series III owned by record producer Robert Margouleff. Later a second Moog III was added, then […]
It is only when you look back in the post second world war days that you realise just how important that Hi-Fi is to many of us and how much of a part in modern history and our heritage it is. From the golden age of radio through the advent of the vinyl records, tapes […]